Very true. In this case, it was actually an increase in salary but a loss of liquid stock compensation in favor of illiquid stock options. Overall cashflow, it

Very true. In this case, it was actually an increase in salary but a loss of liquid stock compensation in favor of illiquid stock options. Overall cashflow, it was a pay cut. Median/Mode outcome, probably still a pay cut. With extremely high variance, I believe the Mean outcome is probably a break even. As far as not having room to grow, I can probably sum that up in a single word: Yahoo!