[deleted] 1 points 3y ago
You can get 8 a year and 4 will vest a year from now and the other 4 will vest 2 years from now. So when you accept grants from multiple years you will have 4 belonging to you after the one year but then after that you will have 8 vested shares every year because of the staggered schedule if that makes sense.
Half goes to taxes... lol yup that sounds about right. However the taxes they take out are based on the value of the stock. So say you have to pay $150 in taxes but your shares are only worth $80 each. Fidelity will withhold 2 shares from you, but those 2 shares were worth $160 total and you only owed $150 right? Starbucks will reimburse you the $10 on your paycheck.
So you may have already been paid a little bit of your shares and not realized it.