Most employees with equity awards have no real idea what they're holding. They know they were granted RSUs or PSUs at some point. What those awards are worth today, what they could be worth at vest, what assumptions change that number — most couldn't tell you. Equity gets mentioned at hire and rarely surfaced again.
This might seem like a small issue but it causes a real retention problem. People leave for what they've perceived as a pay rise, because they never understood the full picture of what they were getting.
The new equity modeller gives employees a live, interactive view of what their unvested equity is worth — and what it could be worth when it vests. They set their own assumptions: current stock price, expected growth rate, tax rate. Ben runs the projection. Equity stops being an abstract line on an offer letter and becomes a concrete, visible part of their total reward.
For employers using equity as a retention lever, this is the difference between equity that works and equity that sits unnoticed until someone hands in their notice.
The equity modeller is part of Ben's Total Reward Statement module — a single view of everything an employee earns: salary, benefits, equity and allowances. If you want employees to see the full value of working at your company, get in touch.