Lets remove the word fair, and I'll submit the following: 1. Options: 1% - 5% since this is a "non-founder" early employee and you already have another devel

Lets remove the word fair, and I'll submit the following: 1. Options: 1% - 5% since this is a "non-founder" early employee and you already have another developer. 2. 4 years vesting with 1 year cliff seems to be "market" (i.e. the most common). After the cliff, vesting is usually pro-rata on a monthly basis. 3. The big downside of a revenue-only structure is that it does not attract the best candidates. The risk is skewed too much (the person you're trying to recruit is taking too much risk). My two cents. Situations vary widely (on #1), so the standard deviation is pretty high.