Employee Compensation
Pay and equity for your people — strategies designed for scale
Sequoia specializes in helping you design pay and equity compensation strategies that engage and motivate your workforce, balancing immediate costs with long-term business viability.
Attract the talent you need while protecting your runway
Crafting effective pay and equity strategies is essential for attracting and motivating talent while ensuring financial sustainability. Sequoia empowers you to design compensation programs that inspire your workforce and manage costs effectively.Â
- Attract and retain high performers with market-aligned pay and equity to keep them engaged.
- Balance burn and dilution trade-offs through cost and share usage modeled for sustainability.
- Scale compensation with confidence with programs designed to fit your unique stage, budget, and trajectory.
Take command of your comp program
Cash Design
- Pay ranges aligned to job architecture
- Market-competitive cash structures
- Cost modeling for adjustments
- Plans for staged implementation
Salary Ranges
- Market-driven ranges for company jobs
- Stage-appropriate program design
- Impact modeling by level and role
- Budget alignment for sustainability
Equity Plans
- Grant ranges benchmarked to peer groups
- Equity structures tailored to your growth stage
- New hire and refresh grant guidelines
- Share usage forecast to manage dilution
Incentives
- Short-term incentive plan design
- Bonus benchmarks by role & level
- Sales incentive program review
- Cost modeling for performance payout
Flexible solutions for smarter compensation strategies
Sequoia delivers our compensation expertise through right-sized solutions that cater to the unique needs of investor-backed companies of all sizes – from emerging startups to global enterprises.
Advisory Solutions
Outsourcing Solutions
Platform Solutions
Impacting client success,
from emerging startup to household name
Explore how forward-thinking companies partner with Sequoia to achieve their business goals — from optimizing comp packages, to streamlining benefits administration, to elevating employee experiences.
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