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No need to ban it. Just automaticly award full salary for 2x the noncompete period they put in your contract, payable in full a week after contract termination.


Suddenly your salary is $1/yr and your bonus is $1M/yr. (This really happens in the USA financial sector.)


Employees won’t tolerate that due to not being able to get mortgages? Our megacorp recently upped base salaries due to this.


Employees definitely tolerate this. As said above, this already happens in industry, and also for many years Amazon used to cap salaries at some hilariously low number—I think like 180k. That may not seem low until you try to buy a house in the Bay Area and lenders laugh in your face.

People would either be part of a two-income household or wait for their stock to vest, but for many years they tolerated it fine.


Can't you count bonuses that are consistent for two years?




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