phantom stock

noun

1. an employee bonus expressed as the cash value of a specified amount of company stock to be received at a future date, meant to create employee interest in raising stock prices without giving any stock away.

Example Sentences

Tanzer said he received 25 percent less for his phantom stock after he was fired in 2008.

From Washington Times

Not phantom stock via an options scheme or the promise of some distant return on their years of effort.

From Forbes

To keep regulators from getting so cautious that they ban legitimate transactions, Henderson would throw some phantom stock into their pay packages as well.

From BusinessWeek

If he wants to give her stock, it probably should be phantom stock—which pays bonuses based on stock appreciation but is not an actual ownership stake.

From Inc

News Corp tried to put together a "phantom stock" for Myspacers but that didn't work and lasted only a year.

From Reuters