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What is Deferral buyout?

Definition 10.10 The Desk and the Firm · Chapter 10 — Hiring and Compensation

A deferral buyout is the payment a hiring firm makes to a new employee to replace the deferred pay forfeited by leaving their previous employer, usually in the new firm’s own deferred instruments and on a similar schedule.

Payments from five equal annual awards under a plan that pays 60% in cash and vests 40% pro rata over four years. From year 4 the employee receives a full award a year, and always has one full award unvested. Data: firm.bonuspool.schedule.
Figure 10.3. Payments from five equal annual awards under a plan that pays 60% in cash and vests 40% pro rata over four years. From year 4 the employee receives a full award a year, and always has one full award unvested. Data: firm.bonuspool.schedule.
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