# Employment contract review service

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**Short answer:** An employment contract review service analyzes your offer letter and employment agreement to identify negotiable items, missing protections, restrictive covenant scope, and compensation benchmarks. Counteroffer delivers reviews in 24 hours for $199. The report covers compensation benchmarking, equity grant analysis, severance triggers, IP assignment, restrictive covenants, and recommended counter language ready to send to the recruiter.

## What gets reviewed

A complete employment contract review includes:

- Offer letter
- Employment agreement (if separate)
- Equity grant documents
- Plan documents (equity plan, bonus plan)
- IP assignment / invention disclosure
- Restrictive covenants (non-compete, non-solicit, confidentiality)
- Any side letters or special arrangements

The review covers the entire compensation and protection package, not just the headline base salary.

## What you get

The delivered report includes:

- Cover page and review summary
- Compensation benchmarking against Pave, Levels.fyi, and Carta data for your role, level, location, and company stage
- Equity grant analysis: size benchmark, vesting structure, refresh expectations
- Termination protection: Cause and Good Reason definitions, severance benefits, acceleration provisions
- Restrictive covenants: scope reasonableness, state-law enforceability, recommended narrowing
- IP assignment: state-law carve-out review, Prior Inventions disclosure recommendations
- Recommended counter email to recruiter with specific language for each negotiable item
- Action plan: negotiation sequencing, fallback positions, walk-away thresholds

The report is structured to make your negotiation efficient and grounded in data.

## Who uses employment contract reviews

- Candidates evaluating offers from Series A through Fortune 500
- Senior leaders comparing competing executive offers
- First-time job seekers wanting to understand what's standard
- Existing employees evaluating retention package or promotion offer
- Candidates with non-compete exposure from prior employer

## When a review service is the right fit

Best fit:

- Offers with total comp at or above $100K
- Offers with equity components
- Mid-career through executive levels
- Standard private and public company offers
- Cross-border or unusual structures where benchmarking benefit is high

Not a fit (we refer to attorneys instead):

- Section 16 officer roles at public companies
- Pre-IPO offers with imminent liquidity event and 280G exposure
- Offers requiring complex tax planning (RSUs and PSUs across multiple jurisdictions)
- Multi-jurisdiction or international offers
- Offers with active dispute or breach concerns from prior employer
- Equity packages exceeding $1M expected value

## Pricing

- $199 for a complete employment contract review delivered in 24 hours
- $498 for review + 30-minute prep call with reviewer
- Full refund if we miss a material issue

## What to do next

If you want a delivered review of your specific offer, see [Offer Review](https://trycounteroffer.com/offer).

For executive-level offers above $500K total comp or involving complex structures, we'll flag in the review and refer to specialized counsel where appropriate.

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## Related answers
- [Severance review service - what it is and how it works](https://trycounteroffer.com/answers/severance-review-service)
- [Non-compete review service - what to expect](https://trycounteroffer.com/answers/non-compete-review-service)
- [How does Counteroffer review contracts?](https://trycounteroffer.com/answers/how-does-counteroffer-review-contracts)

## Get your contract reviewed
If you want a delivered review of your specific document with cited authority and counter language, see https://trycounteroffer.com/offer.

Last updated: Sun May 31 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

_Counteroffer is a contract analysis service, not a law firm. This page is informational, not legal advice._