The median salary package at FB is $240,430[1]. Now I understand how that is possible.
1. http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-median-pay-240000-20...
edit: salary package (salary, bonuses, and stock grants), not salary alone
1. http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-median-pay-240000-20...
edit: salary package (salary, bonuses, and stock grants), not salary alone
> we calculated as actual salary paid to our employees for 2017 [...], actual bonus or sales commission earned by our employees in 2017, and the value of equity awards granted to our employees in 2017
Specifically, if you joined in 2017 the value of your entire initial stock grant was used. This skews the median quite a bit. For example, if I joined Facebook in 2017 at $150,000 and received a $400,000 RSU stock grant vesting over four years my median annual income for the purposes of these SEC calculations was $550,000 (even though most of that is in stock vesting over the next four years).
But over 2018, FB would book $0 of that RSU even though you vested $100k worth.
When the RSUs vest, they are taxed as income. If you hold on to the shares for a while before selling them, and they increase in value, you'll pay capital gains taxes when you sell them.