Salary Questions

I have started a company with 2 other co-founders in the US and own 40% of the company. I am the only employee on record as the CEO of the company. My lawyer insists that I should draw a minimum...

Founder Salary

asked Dec 6 '12 at 03:47

Edupreneur
6 points

If you raise a small amount of money (under $50K) on Kickstarter for a product you want to build, can you pay yourself a small salary along the way? I am quitting my day job to focus on this...

Funding Salary Crowdfunding Kickstarter

asked Jun 6 '14 at 16:58

Mary Pritchett
17 points

During an interview, when asking candidates if they have any questions, if they first question they ask is about their salary, is that a negative?Would be an indication that they haven't bought...

Recruiting Hiring Interviews Salary Hire

asked Aug 4 '14 at 13:58

Alvin Smith
14 points

I'm moving my two-person startup to San Francisco and looking to hire a Rails engineer there.Given how expensive the cost of living is there, what is a decent salary for a full-time, intermediate...

Hiring Salary Developers Engineers Ruby On Rails

asked Jun 12 '15 at 13:55

Robert Cooperman
12 points

Is there a way to pay employees' salary with a credit card? It's not because our startup is in trouble or anything. I figured this would be a great way to earn points on the card, which can then be...

Finance Credit Cards Employees Salary

asked May 22 '14 at 16:55

Thomas Evans
17 points

Assuming a startup raised a round smaller than $500K, what should the founder's salary be? The startup is located in San Francisco, so the cost of living is pretty high. Would angel investors be...

Salary Founders Investors Angel Investors Startups

asked May 22 '14 at 12:57

Sylvia Rubio
12 points

Lets say you are bootstrapping your startup and generating a little revenue. Should you use that revenue to first pay yourself a salary or should all of the profits be re-invested back to fuel growth?

Bootstrapped Salary Revenue Growth Startups

asked May 21 '14 at 16:42

David Thornhill
17 points

I'm a software engineer looking to move into a product manager role. Is the salary as of a product manager higher or lower as compared to software engineers?

Product Management Salary Software Engineers

asked Mar 11 '14 at 14:53

Edward Glenn
5 points

I read an article that Facebook gives some newly graduated engineers a $100K sign on bonus! Are sign-on bonuses, not necessarily the crazy amount FB offers, becoming the norm to hire skilled...

Salary

asked Feb 18 '14 at 18:31

Rodney
16 points

The startup I'm working for is likely to get acquired shortly. We get paid above market rates and it has been one of the reasons for low attrition here.Would an acquirer lower everyone's salary to...

Hiring Acquisition Salary Acqui Hire

asked Mar 3 '14 at 23:53

Clarine Nordberg
40 points

I work at a small startup (~30 people) and the woman that is responsible for recruiting apparently told my salary to someone while having lunch (I don't know to who).Now my department knows that I...

Legal Salary Human Resources

asked Mar 3 '14 at 20:06

Esther Rooker
80 points

A couple of questions regarding base annual raises: What would you suggest is a typical yearly salary increase for engineers in the bay area? Should you make it standard for the entire tech...

Salary Performance

asked Feb 9 '14 at 15:53

Sofine Håkonsen
16 points

I came across an article about a company (Buffer) that made salaries of all employees public in order to be more transparent. What are the benefits of doing that?

Hiring Salary

asked Feb 17 '14 at 11:13

Marlon Wheeler
11 points

I'm looking for a startup opportunity in London. I was given an offer to be a startup cofounder. B2B app for finance market. The team will be me an a business guy. He is giving all the money for...

Co-Founder Equity Salary

asked Nov 16 '13 at 03:00

Lukas
110 points

Suppose there is a situation like this: There are 3 people in a startup, the CEO, a partner, and an investor (very small angel). The investor does no work but has 7.5% equity and 7.5% net profit...

Equity Salary Compensation

asked Nov 24 '13 at 09:06

Goose
16 points

We are a 4 year old startup and are facing few issues (not yet major) with regards to attrition. We have been of the opinion that if we keep paying the employees as per the market standards and...

Hiring Employees Salary

asked Oct 8 '13 at 15:29

Nitin Srivastava
171 points

I am recently approach by one start up company CEO to work for him as CTO. There will be 3 person in team,CEO,CTO,CFO. My responsibilities in company would be to look after all such tech. part and...

CTO Equity Salary Technical

asked Sep 26 '13 at 06:09

Daniel
13 points

Out of a 40-hour work week, how many hours of actual productive work is reasonable for me to expect from a salaried web developer? (low-high range?) In our case, productive work means billable work...

Employees Salary Budget

asked Aug 16 '13 at 01:45

Contrazoom
186 points

A friend of mine set up a small company (currently two employees). He started getting more work than he could handle so came to me asking for software to manage his clients and business...

Equity Salary

asked Aug 20 '13 at 20:49

Awalias
111 points

I have been approached by a startup company in France (sorry for my English!) which says it wants me. I'm currently working in the finance industry and being paid around 50K Euros a year, plus...

Salary

asked May 29 '13 at 18:56

Carmellose
16 points