Company: PACB
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001299130-25-000090
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Company: PACIFIC BIOSCIENCES OF CALIFORNIA, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: DEF 14A
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1: The election of each of the three Class III directors nominated by our Board of Directors and named in this Proxy Statement to serve for a one-year term and until their successors are duly elected and qualified;

• Proposal 2: The ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025;

• Proposal 3: To approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers (“NEOs”) for the year ended December 31, 2024;

• Proposal 4: To approve an amendment of our 2020 Equity Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares reserved thereunder; and

• To transact such other business as may properly come before the Annual Meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

| 2025 Proxy Statement |     | 1 |

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How does the Board of Directors recommend that I vote?

Our Board of Directors recommends that you vote:

• “FOR” each of the three nominees for our Class III directors named in this Proxy Statement;

• “FOR” the ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025;

• “FOR” the approval, on a non-binding advisory basis, of the compensation of our named executive officers for the year ended December 31, 2024; and

• “FOR” the approval of the amendment of our 2020 Equity Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares reserved thereunder.

### Will there be any other items of business on the agenda?
If any other items of business or other matters are properly brought before the Annual Meeting, your proxy gives discretionary authority to the persons named on the proxy card, with full power of substitution, with respect to those items of business or other matters. The persons named on the proxy card intend to vote the proxy in accordance with their best judgment. Our Board of Directors does not intend to bring any other matters to be voted on at the Annual Meeting. We are not currently aware of any other matters that may properly be presented by others for action at the Annual Meeting.

#### Who is entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting?
Holders of our common stock at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on April 10, 2025 (the “Record Date”) may vote at the Annual Meeting. As of the Record Date, we had 300,041,319