Cash is better the employer can abuse tips given via cards - and screw the employees

No if you do a Phd at CERN or similar tier 1 institutions the pay there is often very low I found that for starting work at a world leading RnD organisation.

Ex marine who was invalided out I seem to recall

Well I kind of assume that the team is an Elite one - though the two people typing at the same time makes me cringe

You mean because the show is about them? In the scheme of things they seem to be basically rank-and-file detectives.

All the science/tech stuff they do tends to make me cringe. A hair from a nearly-extinct field mouse found in just one park? whatever. I guess that beats big "revelations" you can see coming a mile away.

There's more than one grade of Special Agent and Gibbs deputised for the Director at one point.

So it's a stretch but as the team was designated Major Case Team i could see it working

Its a major problem for armed forces have people with advanced skills are not going to work for NCO pay which is what the higher ups think we are.

Its well known that family companies have difficulty lasting more than three generations exceptions Like Bacardi and Charles Wells are rare.

Also based on my Uncles experience the family Bookkie business (Birmingham UK) did not last to the 3rd Gen - ok the transition to legalization wasn't handled well by generation 2.

As you say your getting a much better tax advantage and can use capital Gains to reduce the tax rate.

Though compared to the US the UK has much better treatment of "employee" share schemes. The most common Sharesave is effectively a risk free investment at a 20% discount.

I am surprised if the Google union hasn't got fairer treatment of stock options on its agenda and I do mean for all employees.

> As you say your getting a much better tax advantage and can use capital Gains to reduce the tax rate.

This isn't true. RSUs are taxed as income at vest time, so if you're granted 100K in RSUs in 2020, and they vest in 2023, come 2023, if the stock has increased 25% to 125K, you'll be taxed on 125K of income. No capital gains involved anywhere.

Ah sorry was looking with a UK perspective - the USA really doesn't want the little people accumulating capital does it.

https://frazerjames.co.uk/rsus-a-tech-employees-guide/ seems to suggest that it works the same way in the UK. Are you perhaps confusing RSUs with options?

HMRC Approved schemes only from Share Save through EMI (the gold standard)

If you get RSU's in an American parent company your screwed its just income there's some calculations on the relevant redit r/UKPersonalFinance - basically its treated income and you also don't get the legal protections

It's actually even worse in the UK. If you get a grant in the UK, you still owe taxes when it vests, even if you've left the UK years ago.

as the site says "The UK tax treatment for RSUs is similar to how your salary is taxed."

The example shown on the site you quote has a 56.53% effective rate - don't forget you pay NI as well

As I said very poor I paid zero tax on my two share saves and my current EMI is at the 10% rate.

Update the 56.5% rate is after you put 20k into pension the actual rate is just under 70%

And anyone that has an atypical route into that profession.

I have also sacked an agency over this and they are on my personal "Call First" list so if I am recommending agencies they wont be getting a call.

But your change is actually misleading - allowing your biases doesn't help actual debate on the complex issues.

I don't see why it's misleading to call ads that are deliberately designed to look like legitimate search results (and which are themselves explicitly designed to misinform and misdirect) "fake". You can call it "spin" if you want to. But I don't see how you call it misleading.

Allowing your biases doesn't help actual debate on the complex issues.

As if the companies that place these ads are interested in "debate".

Unfortunately some of early American politicians had some cranky ideas about central banks - which caused some economic depressions.