# The Holloway Reader

_Equity Compensation_

Common questions covered here

## How This Guide Is Organized

This Guide contains a lot of material. And it’s dense. Some readers may wish to read front to back, but you can also **search or navigate directly** to parts that are of interest to you, **referring back** to foundational topics as needed.

Equity compensation lies at the intersection of corporate law, taxation, and employee compensation, and so requires some basic understanding of all three. You might think compensation and taxation are separate topics, but they are so intertwined it would be misleading to explain one without the other. We cover material in logical order, so that if you do read the earlier sections first, later sections on the interactions of tax and compensation will be clearer.

We start with [**Equity Compensation Basics**](https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation/sections/equity-compensation-basics): What compensation and equity are, and why equity is used as compensation.

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**Length:** 80 pages

**Edition:** e2.1.1

**Language:** English

**ISBN (Holloway.com):** 978-1-952120-03-9

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# Equity Compensation

by Joshua Levy, Joe Wallin

Stock options, RSUs, job offers, and taxes—a detailed reference, including hundreds of resources, explained from the ground up, for both employees and managers.

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