DoorDash (DASH) NSO Exercise Calculator
Calculator · free · no signup · DASHPlan your DoorDash NSO exercise (federal, state, FICA) and compare sell-vs-hold for long-term capital gains.
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Your grant
Tax inputs
Hold strategy
Best after-tax payout — at year 1
$199,080
Sell + invest wins by $20,783 over Hold 1 yr.
Estimates only. Not financial advice.
Sell + invest
Best payout| Bargain element (sale − strike) | $350,000 |
| Federal | |
| State | |
| Medicare | −$5,075 |
| Additional Medicare | −$3,150 |
| Market gain over 1 yr at 10.0% | $18,573 |
| LTCG on diversified gain (fed + state + NIIT) | −$5,219 |
| Net at year 1 | $199,080 |
Sell every share immediately; invest the after-tax cash at the market return for 1 yr, then liquidate. Diversified — no single-stock concentration risk.
Exercise + hold 1 yr
| Sale proceeds (year 1) | |
| LTCG tax (federal + state + NIIT) | $0 |
| Net at year 1 | $178,297 |
Sold 2,678 shares at exercise to cover strike + tax; 2,322 shares held 1 yr for LTCG.
Social Security + Medicare are payroll taxes (collectively called FICA) — they apply because you're exercising as a current employee.
Both columns are stated in year-1 dollars: sell-now proceeds compound at the market return and pay LTCG on the gain at year 1; any cash paid out of pocket on the hold side carries the same opportunity cost.
Net at year N — by hold period
Estimates only. Excludes AMT (NSOs do not trigger AMT), state-AMT, multi-state moves, and disqualifying-disposition edge cases. Not financial advice.
You calculated one NSO decision. The beta plans NSOs alongside RSUs and ISOs in a single multi-year tax plan.
Request beta access →About DoorDash
DoorDash (DASH) is a public Marketplace company, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in San Francisco, CA. IPO'd Dec 9, 2020.
Last close: $170.03 per share (as of 2026-06-16).
Equity grants at DoorDash typically include incentive stock options (ISOs), non-qualified stock options (NSOs), and restricted stock units (RSUs).
DoorDash, Inc. is an American company operating online food ordering and food delivery. It trades under the symbol DASH. With a 56% market share, DoorDash is the largest food delivery platform in the United States. It also has a 60% market share in the convenience delivery category. As of December 31, 2020, the platform was used by 450,000 merchants, 20 million consumers, and had over one million delivery couriers.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Tony Xu, Stanley Tang, Andy Fang, and Evan Moore founded DoorDash in 2013 while at Stanford, starting as PaloAltoDelivery.com to handle last-mile logistics for local restaurants. The San Francisco company expanded into grocery, retail, and convenience delivery before listing on the NYSE under DASH in December 2020, raising roughly $3.37 billion. In 2025, Marketplace Gross Order Value reached $102 billion on 3.2 billion orders, and revenue rose to $13.7 billion from $10.7 billion in 2024. DoorDash also closed acquisitions of Deliveroo and SevenRooms that year.
Sources: ir.doordash.com · bloomberg.com · sec.gov
Equity comp at DoorDash
- RSUs use single-trigger vesting: shares become yours as each portion vests on schedule, and the value is taxed as ordinary income at that point. No IPO or acquisition is required.
Researched 2026-05-07.
OptionsAhoy is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by DoorDash.
Use this calculator to estimate your DoorDash (DASH) NSO exercise tax (federal, state, FICA), then compare selling now versus holding through the long-term capital gains threshold. Inputs are yours: grant terms, current price, your income, your state.
Example: at DoorDash (DASH)'s last close of $170.03, exercising 5,000 NSOs with a $51.01 strike creates a $595,100 bargain element, taxed as ordinary income on the day you exercise. Combined federal + state + FICA on that bargain typically lands between $160,677 and $267,795 depending on your bracket and state. The calculator above computes the exact figure for your situation and compares selling now vs. holding through the long-term capital-gains threshold.
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DoorDash equity questions
- How is a DoorDash NSO exercise taxed?
- Exercising a non-qualified stock option (NSO) creates ordinary income on the bargain element (the price on the day you exercise minus your strike), subject to federal income tax, state income tax, and FICA. The calculator above computes that tax for your DoorDash grant and compares selling the shares now against holding past the one-year mark for long-term capital-gains treatment.
- Does DoorDash grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at DoorDash typically takes the form of incentive stock options (ISOs), non-qualified stock options (NSOs), and restricted stock units (RSUs). Incentive stock options can trigger the alternative minimum tax (AMT) when you exercise. Restricted stock units are taxed as ordinary income when they vest.
- Do DoorDash RSUs use double-trigger vesting?
- No. DoorDash restricted stock units (RSUs) use single-trigger vesting: each tranche becomes yours as it vests on schedule, taxed as ordinary income at that point, with no liquidity event required.
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