Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive
One crucial thing not often talked about with this plan is that the stock is granted and vests <i>quarterly</i>. In fact, the amount of stock you get each quarter is also variable. E.g. if you choose to have 100k of equity each year, each quarter you get whatever amount of units equates to 25k of stock.<p>So what they've done is nearly completely untie compensation from the stock price. You neither benefit significantly nor lose significantly as the stock moves around. I've never in my life seen an equity plan like it, and that's not a comment on whether it's good or bad, just that it's unusual.