Generally speaking, when you're allotted options (equity), let's say 100,000, those options will vest equally over a three or four year period. The salary is ma

Generally speaking, when you're allotted options (equity), let's say 100,000, those options will vest equally over a three or four year period. The salary is market rate with a raise commensurate on the company's desire to keep/reward the employee or you get the old song and dance about no raises/bonuses as management wants to keep reinvesting as much as possible into operations while they take as much money off the table for themselves as possible. I haven't seen many cases where early employees were rewarded with substantial raises over their peers as this would be counterintuitive to management retention and recruitment goals.