05/29/2026
The Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) that may be given to you by your employer work similarly to a conveyor belt at a factory. 🏭 Let me explain:
RSU’s are company shares rewarded by your employer as you meet certain requirements, usually a “vesting period”. Your employer switches on “the belt” on your grant date. Packages (shares of the company) are already loaded at the far end, but they slowly travel toward you over time. You stay at your station and they come to you periodically, at which point you receive and own the shares. These shares are now vested. 📄
Do note, that as these shares vest periodically, they are treated as ordinary income to you. The applicable value gets tacked on to the other income you earn at your job. 💰
Generally, if/when you go to sell the stock, the rate at which you pay taxes on your gains will depend on how long you held the stock after receiving them off the belt. 📦
With that in mind, do you know when your next vest date is? 🤔