The following policy applies to U.S. employees and all full-time contractors.
Salary
Fair compensation is critical to making Tidepool a desirable place to work and helping our employees lead happy, healthy lives inside and outside of the office. When used as a motivational tool, though, it can incentivize the wrong kind of optimizations. Our goal with salary is that it checks the box of "enough" for folks excited about working at Tidepool (because of our mission, people, and products) and then fades into the background.
As a non-profit, and as a startup trying to extend our financial operating runway as long as possible, we ask people to let us know what the lowest salary that they feel is fair compensation for their work.
Your compensation reflects what you do for Tidepool. Your compensation is not based on your geographical location. This will tend to benefit people who live in lower-cost-of-living areas and may be a challenge for people who live in higher-cost-of-living areas like the SF Bay Area or New York City.
Our current target is to pay people at the 40th percentile of base salary when compared to similar jobs around the US. For 2023, we are using the Radford Global Technology Survey as the comparison basis (data release - July 15, 2023).
Tidepool re-evaluates compensation annually based on updated Radford data sets. Our ability to offer use updated data sets is dependent on our current financial situation.
A Word on Benefits
We offer our employees other generous benefits including flexible Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Parental Leave, exceptional Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage, Health and Childcare FSA, Continuing Education Reimbursement, and more.
Equity
Tidepool is a non-profit corporation with no equity investors and does not award stock or stock options.