If you read my comment again, if you sell your stocks immediately after vesting, there is little to no gain. You can even do this automatically at Google using

If you read my comment again, if you sell your stocks immediately after vesting, there is little to no gain. You can even do this automatically at Google using autosale program. Yes, this is short term gain, but it's negligible compared to how much you are getting paid. e.g. Let's say the stock was at $1000 when vested and by the time you got around to sell it 5 days after it's at $1050 - 5% gain which is not so common in usual scenarios. You will pay short term capital gain tax only on $50. This is the only additional tax you will pay compared to getting $1000 in cash as part of your base salary. The $1000 stock itself will be taxed as normal income. The gain you get on the stock from vest till you sell is a bonus anyway compared to if you were just given straight cash. I would advise you to run some actual numbers to get this. I don't need to as I have been getting paid this for last 5 years at Google.