INCENTIVE PAY
As stock options become the financial incentive for today's free-agent workforce, it's not just the three-letter execs who are being fitted for the "velvet handcuffs of the compensation game." So naturally the question arises: Who's getting the fairest share(s)?
To find out, Wired tapped iQuantic, a San Francisco-based concern that tracks equity practices. This chart is a composite of options disbursements at publicly traded computer-peripheral companies in Silicon Valley.
| Position| **Median Annual Grant (shares) ***
| CEO| 97,000
| CFO| 24,000
| Top Sales| 19,000
| Chief Technical Officer| 16,000
| Top Business Unit| 14,000
| Top Marketing| 14,000
| Top Human Resources| 11,000
| Chief Information Officer| 9,000
| Controller| 7,000
| Manager, Network Systems| 1,000
| Manager, Applications Programming| 1,000
| Senior Technical Writer| 600
| Product Marketing Specialist| 500
| Sales Support Representative| 500
| Customer Service Representative| 300
- Based on a company with $1 billion in revenue, a stock price of $25, and 100 million shares outstanding.
Source: iQuantic High Technology Practice Database (www.iquantic.com/).
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