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Base + bonus + annual refresher should be in the 700s annually. Likely the way this gets to $1M is with stocks going up and stacked refreshers (getting a couple annual refreshers while the initial grant is still vesting).


But they shouldn't be reporting stocks going up or refreshers to Levels

They should be reporting offer letters that get verified by Levels admins

So its $1,000,000


At https://www.levels.fyi/addcomp.html I see someone could upload an offer letter, or a W2.


I see

So its likely heavily factoring in stock price appreciation as the RSUs vest and have a portion withheld for taxes based on current value.




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