The flip - as shares increase, are they then supposed to remove compensation?
The short answer is no.
The short answer is no.
So if your salary is 100k, and they want to pay you 200k, and they see you've got 35 RSU vesting during the year and they predict that will net you 80k, then they'll top it off with an additional 20k worth of RSUs.
Basically the stock increase is accounted for. Those 20k worth of RSUs will vest say next year, and if next year they're now worth 60k, they'll just give you less RSUs again, because now they'll repeat the same math, and see you're probably going to make 160k.