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The suggested package prices equity as a percentage of a company. Default valuations are US median post-money figures (Carta, 2025) — pre-seed ~$10M, seed $24M, Series A $78.7M, Series B ~$140M, Series C ~$400M, Series D+ $2B+ — scaled per market and per stage.
Rounds outside the Bay Area price lower, and the gap is widest at the earliest stages: European Series A pre-money runs near $28M against roughly $48M in the US, European seed pre-money at about a €5.6M median, and European rounds generally 30–50% below US pricing for comparable companies. Late-stage rounds are priced far more globally, so the discount narrows. The scaling below is applied to the US medians and interpolated across the stages between:
The two US figures are the softest numbers on this page. They reflect the Bay Area's premium in round size rather than a separately published series.
The opening figures are a suggestion for a company that wants to compete for strong engineers, not an average of what companies at that stage pay. Base salary is set per market and stage; the percentile it reaches is an output.
The same offer sits at a different height in different markets, because the competition differs. In the Bay Area the band above the median is packed with employers a startup cannot outbid on cash, and moving from the median to the top 10% costs about $143,000 — so a strong Series A offer there is upper-middle. In Italy the same climb costs about €30,000 and the band above the median is thin and largely made up of people employed remotely from abroad, so a funded startup is among the best-paying employers in the country. Canada sits between the two.
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