I hope revealing salaries doesn&#x27;t get him in trouble at AirBnb.  I know I would be a bit annoyed if he revealed all of this before joining if I were an employer.<p>Conflating base salary and RSU packages, especially pre-IPO RSUs, is a mistake.  In my 20 years in Silicon Valley I&#x27;ve learned you simply can&#x27;t put too much faith in stock.  Stock is great, but it goes up and down.  The only thing that is real is base salary, even bonus isn&#x27;t guaranteed.  Stock or options are nice, but they are icing on the cake, if you get a chance to cash out, so combining them with base salary is generally a mistake.