Company: WAL-PA
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-057334
Chunk: 61

Company: WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATION
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 61
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| TIM BRUCKNER      |     |               |     |      — |     |               |     |      — |     |           |      — |     |             |         — |
| TIM BOOTHE        |     |               |     |      — |     |               |     |      — |     |           |      — |     |             |         — |

| (1) | Amounts in this column are included in the Summary Compensation Table, in the “All Other Compensation” column, and as a portion of the “Registrant Contributions” column in footnote (3) to that table. |

CEO Pa y Ratio

| We are committed to internal pay equity, and the Compensation Committee monitors the relationship between the pay our executive officers receive and the pay our non-managerial employees receive. The Compensation Committee reviewed a comparison of CEO pay to the pay of all our employees in 2024. The compensation for our CEO in 2024 was approximately 92 times the pay of our median employee. | 92:1CEO Pay Ratio |

Our CEO to median employee pay ratio is calculated in accordance with Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K. We identified the median employee by examining the total compensation for all individuals, excluding Mr. Vecchione, who were employed by us on December 1, 2024. To determine total compensation, we used: (1) the W-2 Gross Wages amount for all active employees who were employed during the entire 2024 calendar year; and (2) the annualized gross compensation amount for mid-year hires using December 1, 2024, payroll data. We included all employees, whether employed on a full-time, part-time, or seasonal basis. We did not include retired employees or employees on long term leaves of absence who may have received compensation during the course of the year. We did not make any assumptions, adjustments, or estimates with respect to total cash or equity compensation, other than annualizing the compensation for any active employees that were not employed by us for all of 2024. After identifying the median employee based on total compensation, we calculated annual total compensation for such employee using the same methodology we use for our named executive officers as set forth in the 2024 Summary Compensation Table in this proxy statement. Accordingly, our median employee for 2024 received total compensation in the amount of $112,120, whereas our CEO’s total compensation for 2024 totaled $10,275,160, such that our 202