Company: WCC
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-065641
Chunk: 39

Company: WESCO INTERNATIONAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 39
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ONA Growth. Each year the Committee reviews the performance targets and metrics for the upcoming grant. Stock Options and Stock Appreciation Rights We use Stock Options (and prior to 2022, used Stock Appreciation Rights (SARs)) to both motivate and align management’s incentives with long-term stockholder value. We believe that management should have a substantial stake in the success of the Company and that enduring stock price growth reflects the effectiveness of management in executing a long-term strategic plan, not just the passage of time. Our Stock Options and SARs settle in Company Common Stock upon exercise, and they vest ratably over three years. In 2022, we started to grant stock-settled Options instead of SARs because substantively the instruments function in similar ways (i.e., a gain is settled in shares of stock) and the usage of Stock Options is more prevalent in the marketplace and participants are more familiar with them. We have historically scheduled the grant of annual options during the week in February when our Compensation Committee and the full Board of Directors meet and after our announcement of our annual results. Beginning in 2024, annual option awards are granted on March 1, which typically follows the filing of our Annual Report on Form 10-Kby a week or more. The intention of this timing was to choose a consistent date that would be at least a week removed from the announcement of annual results and filing of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K.

| Wesco 2025 Proxy Statement |     | Compensation Discussion and Analysis |     | 44 |

Restricted Stock Units Fundamentally, Restricted Stock Units (“RSUs”) are meant to balance the need for long-term retention of key executive talent while aligning realizable value with changes in stockholder wealth. RSUs are common in the marketplace and therefore are an important component of a competitive compensation opportunity. It is, however, intentionally only a modest portion of our NEOs’ total long-term incentive compensation. Our RSUs vest ratably over a three-year period. The performance shares, Stock Options and RSU grants to our NEOs in 2024 were as follows:

| NEO     |     | Performance      
 Share            
 Opportunity      
 (reflects number 
 of shares that   
 could be earned  
 at target)(1)    |        |     | Stock Option 
 Awards(2)    |        |     | RSU       
 Awards(3) |        |
| Engel   |     |                  | 27,619 |     |              | 29,