# Stock Options

Skill · Finance and Accounting

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/stock-options

Stock options are financial contracts that give an employee or investor the right, but not the obligation, to buy (or sell) a company's stock at a predetermined price within a specific timeframe, commonly used as employee compensation, especially at startups. Employees use stock options as a way to share in a company's growth and potential upside if the stock price rises above the strike price. Understanding vesting schedules, exercise prices, and tax implications is important knowledge for anyone receiving equity compensation.

Related skills: [Financial Planning](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/financial-planning)

## Open roles requiring Stock Options (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.