My company is offering me ownership shares as part of a raise. We're a small company of 12 employees that did about $10M in gross business last year and on pace to do 15 this year. I'm not sure what our profit margin is, but last year I received my full bonus which only happens if our total margin is over 18% so it's at least that.
How should I think about this offer in terms of real value? What questions should I ask, and what am I entitled to see as far as company financials? This is the first time the owner has offered equity in the company to someone else, so I'm not sure he totally knows how to go about this either.
This all came about because I was offered $50k more at another company, and my current company has countered with $25k more and ownership shares. So I want to objectively weigh the two offers and if I decide to stay, make sure I don't get screwed somehow (the owner is my friend and I don't think he'd screw me on purpose, but I'm not convinced he knows what he's doing when it comes to offering equity as compensation).
Submitted May 22, 2017 at 04:41PM by pearldrumbum http://ift.tt/2rJzVsc
