The salary is low, but if the company is successful, my stock options will make me rich.
stock options = options to buy given stocks at given prices before given dates
A stock option is often just called an option.
stock option = the option to buy a given stock at a given price before a given date
She was a millionaire now too, thanks to her company stock options.†
(source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011
"And stock options!" her father said.†
(source) Dave Eggers, The Circle, 2013
Resign from the country club, forget about the stock options and the executive retreat, watch your wife disappear in a haze of secret drinking.†
(source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997
Just possibilities based on life-styles, on real estate they shouldn't have or places they go they shouldn't be able to afford or the positions some hold or held in corporations justifying salaries and stock options when nothing in their backgrounds justified the jobs.†
(source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Ultimatum, 1990
Why is she working with all those stock options?†
(source) Dave Eggers, The Circle, 2013
It was one of the more glamorous ways to arrive at the company: to pitch an idea, have it acquired, be rewarded with employment and stock options and see their idea executed in short order.†
(source) Dave Eggers, The Circle, 2013
