How Do You Pay the Exercise Cost When You Exercise Your Employee Stock Options?

If you have employee stock options, you’ve likely spent time considering how and when to turn the value of those options into cash proceeds you can actually use. To turn stock employee stock options into cash, you have to exercise and sell them.  When you exercise, you are buying shares of company stock at the exercise price of the employee stock option. Buying shares of stock means that you still need to pay for them...