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It obviously should be a term both parties should be happy with regardless of what that may look like. If neither party are happy, it won't matter. Do you belie
by code 15y ago
It obviously should be a term both parties should be happy with regardless of what that may look like. If neither party are happy, it won't matter. Do you believe in the company and founders?
Having said that, more details would actually help people here give better feedback. How early is early, aka employee number 1, 10, 20? Has the company raise funding? Profitable? How long has the company been around? What position. These factors and others, can influence a lot.
Generally speaking, depending on what stage of funding and how early a startup employee you are, it can vary between 0.5 pt to 5 pts. Of course there are ranges outside of this as well. Salary can vary a lot too. I've seen engineers do as low as $24k/yr to at least $50k/yr.
- mikepurvis 15y agoI think the difficulty is that I don't really know if I'm happy. I think I am, but I feel like I have insufficient information to really know, hence the post. Is the $50k number you're citing the upperbound of what an early-hire should expect to be paid? Looking at ackwire, I see the vast majority of the engineering lead positions are for cash compensation amounts much higher than that. (viz. http://www.ackwire.com/level/lead http://www.ackwire.com/level/lead )
- code 15y agoIt varies significantly depending on the info I mentioned above including your experience as well. Re-read what I wrote carefully, I said AT LEAST $50k. It depends on where you're located as well. Too many unknown factors to give you any valid advice at this point.