don t come with voting rights
examples of rsussuppose madeline receives a job offer because the company thinks madeline s skill set is valuable and hopes she remains a long term employee it offers her 1 000 rsus in addition to a salary and other benefits the company s stock is worth 10 per share making the rsus potentially worth an additional 10 000 to give madeline an incentive to stay with the company and receive the 1 000 shares it puts the rsus on a five year vesting schedule madeline receives 200 shares after one year with the company another 200 shares after the second year and so on until she acquires all 1 000 shares at the end of the vesting period depending on the company s stock performance madeline may receive more or less than 10 000 as a real world example of what a company does to issue rsus take a look at the december 2017 sec form 4 filed by the electric vehicle company tesla tsla this form indicates that the company s chief accounting officer eric branderiz had received 4 808 restricted stock units and was converting them into common shares source sec edgar