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> While the median number of restricted shares granted at Standard & Poor’s 1500 companies to executives and employees in 2014 equaled 450,198 shares, tech comp
by wonnage 11y ago
> While the median number of restricted shares granted at Standard & Poor’s 1500 companies to executives and employees in 2014 equaled 450,198 shares, tech companies granted a median 798,000 shares of restricted stock to workers, according to data from Equilar, a research firm that provides data on executives, boards and compensation.
It doesn't appear that the author understands how this works...
- bigtones 11y agoI agree, the number of shares is of less consequence than the total value as the price of each companies shares varies wildly. If they all got the same number of shares, I would choose to work at Google with a $790 share price rather than LinkedIn with a $40 share price.
- nvader 11y agoI think it's a case of the outstanding share numbers being much easier to get than how much these companies are actually worth right now. I can see an overworked journalist who out of expediency decides to include these meaningless numbers, because including ANY numbers gives the verisimilitude of hard science. Even if they've done the equivalent of adding a days temperature in F to its wind speed in km/h to its percentage chance of rainfall.