The Developer Job Switch Kit

See a job switch year by year before you resign: the shares and bonus you would leave behind, the new grant on its real schedule and cliff, every year at a share price and at zero, and the sign-on that makes year one whole.

CoderCaste's Dev Salary Negotiation Calculator rolls an offer into one straight-line year and sets it against a single figure for your current job. It cannot see what leaving costs (the shares that would vest in the next twelve months, a bonus that pays after you go), the new grant's real vesting schedule and cliff, the sign-on's repayment window, or the year the grant runs out. The Equity Vesting Calculator can see exactly what you would leave behind, and the two never meet. The Developer Job Switch Kit joins them, year by year, in seven steps. In its worked example the calculator reads an offer as an 8.69% raise; with the grant on a back-loaded 5/15/40/40 schedule and the 1,200 shares the current grant would vest next year counted, the switch is $11,500 behind staying in year one and $1,500 in year two, then well ahead in years three and four if you stay. Leaving before the first anniversary would leave it $45,250 behind. The make-whole sign-on, worked from the vesting statement and rounded up, is $22,000 against the $10,000 offered. Every salary, share count, price and date in it is an example, and every figure is computed from the site's own calculators. Equity is shown at an example price and at zero; no company is valued, and it is not investment, tax or legal advice. It never suggests claiming an offer you do not have, and no salary or sign-on is promised. Included: a 24-page PDF with seven steps, a grant ledger, a walk-away bill, a five-year switch sheet, a questions sheet, two reference tables and a quickstart, plus a personalised sheet worked from the numbers you entered in the calculator.

Look inside

Two full pages from the kit, exactly as printed. Click either to read it at full size before you decide.

What is in it

• Step 1: your vesting statement read for what leaving costs: vested, still to vest, and the next twelve months, with the site's Equity Vesting Calculator
• Step 2: every payout date in the next six months, what waiting keeps, and the walk-away bill
• Step 3: staying priced year by year from the grants you already hold, and the year each runs out
• Step 4: the offer's grant on its real schedule instead of an even split, and the year-five drop
• Step 5: the cliff, priced: what leaving the new job at 6, 9, 11 or 13 months would cost against staying
• Step 6: five years of the switch against staying, at an example share price and at zero
• Step 7: the make-whole sign-on, rounded up, asked for with your own paperwork and no bluff
• Working pages: a grant ledger, a walk-away bill, a five-year switch sheet and a questions sheet
• Two reference tables: a four-year grant vested by month on four schedules, and what a sign-on costs to leave early
• A quickstart, and a personalised sheet worked from your own calculator figures

The kit picks up where the free Dev Salary Negotiation Calculator leaves off. The calculator rolls an offer into one straight-line year and sets it against one figure for your current job. The kit lays the switch out year by year: the shares you would leave behind, read from your own vesting statement with the Equity Vesting Calculator, the bonus that pays after you leave, staying priced from the grants you already hold, the offer's grant on its real schedule and cliff, what leaving early would cost, every year at an example share price and at zero, and the sign-on that makes year one whole, rounded up. Every salary, share count, price and date in it is an example. Equity is not cash, and private-company shares may never be sellable; the kit values no company and is not investment, tax or legal advice. It never suggests claiming an offer you do not have, and no salary or sign-on is promised.