About Amazon equity
Amazon (AMZN, HQ WA) grants RSUs to employees. No ESPP. with a other vesting cadence. Back-weighted vesting schedule (5/15/40/40 or variants); sign-on cash offsets early years.
Cooling-off period
Under the 2023 SEC amendments, officers and directors must wait 90 days (and at least two full business days after the issuer's next periodic report) before the first trade under a new 10b5-1 plan. Non-officer employees have a 30-day cooling-off period.
What to do next
- Run the RSU vesting calculator against your next tranche.
- Read the complete RSU guide.
- Match with a fiduciary advisor before a meaningful event.