Tech workers may be better off selling their company stock
By Alistair Barr
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Tech workers may be better off selling their company stock
Selling company stock and diversifying could leave tech workers better off, according to a Levels.fyi analysis of Microsoft pay.
TL;DRAI
Levels.fyi analyzed a Microsoft senior engineer case: selling vested stock and reinvesting in S&P 500 yielded $50,000 more than holding company shares. Even amid AI's outsized returns (Nvidia, OpenAI), portfolio diversification remains the safer and often more profitable strategy for tech workers.
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