{"id":280129,"date":"2023-06-28T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jthelander.com\/?p=280129"},"modified":"2023-06-28T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T17:32:00","slug":"what-are-the-compensation-trends-for-research-development-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/?p=280129","title":{"rendered":"What are the Compensation Trends for Research &amp; Development Positions?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June&#8217;s Thelander Digest, we examine the different trends impacting compensation for&nbsp;research &amp; development (R&amp;D) positions.&nbsp;<br><br>To do this, we looked at our data on&nbsp;how the median total cash and non-founder shares (non-founder equity) has changed since 2019 for two positions:&nbsp;<em>VP<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Director of Research &amp; Development (R&amp;D)<\/em>. In order to&nbsp;keep things consistent, we looked at the compensation for companies that have raised between $15 to $89.9 million in total financing.<br><br><strong>So, what does Thelander data tell us?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The median total cash for Directors of\u00a0R&amp;D has stayed stable since 2019, ranging from $185,000 to $189,200.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The percentage of non-founder equity has steadily increased from 0.30% to 0.34%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image img-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jthelander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/198f4575-7ddf-3056-6a65-55e5efbbdeea.png\" alt=\"Director R&amp;D Median Total Cash &amp; Non-Founder Shares\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the graph below, we find that compensation for VP&nbsp;of R&amp;D has not been as&nbsp;consistent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The median total cash has fluctuated between $256,850 in 2019 (its\u00a0highest point) to $240,825 in 2022 (its lowest point).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The median total cash has leveled out at $250,000 in 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The non-founder equity has ranged from 0.83% in 2020 (its\u00a0highest point) to 0.78% in 2023 (its\u00a0lowest point).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image img-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jthelander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cdc77baf-6515-289b-ec7e-bc0a01007bef.png\" alt=\"VP R&amp;D Median Total Cash &amp; Non-Founder Shares\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Our Findings:\u00a0<\/strong>After analyzing the data presented above, we can conclude that the director level compensation has stayed relatively stable since 2019; whereas, the VP level compensation has varied\u00a0more over the years.\u00a0The data is a guideline to help understand compensation trends.\u00a0Ultimately, each company decides how important a role and the person in it is to their organization and uses the percentiles to find the right mix of cash and equity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Do you want to see how your compensation compares to the market?<\/strong><br>We are excited to announce that we have added a &#8220;My Data&#8221; column to our compensation data tables so that you can see how&nbsp;<strong>YOUR<\/strong>&nbsp;compensation compares to the market. See for yourself by participating.&nbsp;There is no cost to participate and all respondents will receive a complimentary silver subscription for the year.<br>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center btn-post wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/survey.jthelander.com\/surveys\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Participate in the Thelander Private Company Compensation Survey Here for FREE Compensation Data<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June&#8217;s Thelander Digest, we examine the different trends impacting compensation for&nbsp;research &amp; development (R&amp;D) positions.&nbsp; To do this, we looked at our data on&nbsp;how the median total cash and non-founder shares (non-founder equity) has changed since 2019 for two positions:&nbsp;VP&nbsp;and&nbsp;Director of Research &amp; Development (R&amp;D). In order to&nbsp;keep things consistent, we looked at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-280129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter","tag-newsletter","tag-private-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}