A 38-year-old job offer letter signed by Steve Jobs is up for sale.

Autograph dealer Moments In Time has sourced a 1986 job offer letter to Caroline Rose from Jobs' tech company, NeXT, and is now offering it for sale at $95,000 on its website.

The letter was printed on 8.5 x 11 inches paper and signed by Jobs in blue ink. The letter was reportedly signed before Jobs commissioned graphic designer Paul Rand to design NeXT's iconic logo.

In the letter, Rose was offered employment at NeXT with a starting annual salary of $50,000, paid monthly in advance.

Included in the job offer was a "great benefits plan" that covered major medical, dental, vision and prenatal perks, and the opportunity to purchase 1,250 shares of the company at $625 or 50¢ per share.

While the starting salary was already generous then, Rose was also informed of a salary increase where she could earn up to $65,000 by August 1987.

According to Moments In Time, Rose worked for both Apple and NeXT during a 15-year period that began at Apple Computer in 1982. She was a lead writer, editor and project supervisor of Inside Macintosh Volumes I through III.

In 1986, she was "whisked away" from working as a Macintosh documentation supervisor at Apple and worked at NeXT as a manager, writer and editor of end-user and developer documentation.

After five years, she left NeXT and returned to Apple. She served there as editor-in-chief of develop, The Apple Technical Journal.

In 2022, a job offer letter allegedly signed by Steve Jobs in 1989 also circulated online. In the letter addressed to Dave Nagy, NeXT already had a logo at the time.

In the letter, the starting salary had already grown to $80,000, but it was still paid monthly in advance. Like the 1986 job offer, it included a health plan and an opportunity to purchase company stocks.

However, the salary increase promise was replaced with an offer of a hiring bonus of $5,000.

Jobs founded NeXT, Inc. in 1985 after he was removed from Apple, which he co-founded.

In 1996, Apple faced huge financial losses and brought back Jobs as a consultant. Gilbert Amelio was the chief executive at the time, but the board of directors became "disenchanted" with his inability to save Apple from the verge of collapse.

So in 1997, Apple acquired NeXT, and Jobs led the company once again.


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