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When do your shares actually vest?
Enter your grant terms — start date, cliff, total length, and frequency — and see every upcoming vest date with a running total.
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How this is calculated
Vesting starts from your vesting start date, which is often your start date but can be earlier or later — your grant document is what governs. Nothing vests until the cliff passes; at the cliff, everything accrued up to that point vests at once.
After the cliff, shares accrue on your frequency — monthly, quarterly, or annually — until the total length is reached. Share counts use cumulative rounding, so every event is a whole number and the final one brings the total to exactly your grant size. No fractional share drifts into the total.
Dates are calendar dates, not timestamps, so a vest lands on the same day whatever timezone you are in. Month-end and leap-day starts clamp to the end of the target month.
Questions people ask
- Does vesting mean I own the shares?
- Not necessarily. For options, vesting means you are allowed to buy the shares at your strike price — you still have to exercise, and that costs money. For RSUs at a private company, time-vesting is often only the first of two conditions; shares may not be delivered until a liquidity event.
- What happens if I leave before the cliff?
- Under a standard cliff, nothing from that grant vests. That is what a cliff is for: it makes the first period all-or-nothing. It is also the single largest discontinuity in most equity packages.
- My company uses a different schedule. Does this still work?
- Yes, as long as it is a cliff plus even accrual. Set the cliff to zero if there is no cliff. Acceleration clauses, leaves of absence, and role changes can all alter a real schedule in ways no calculator can see — your paperwork governs.
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Behind this calculation: Vesting, cliffs, and what “vested” really means.
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