Company: BHE
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-051057
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Company: BENCHMARK ELECTRONICS INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
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 officers of the Company. For information regarding compensation programs with respect to our Named Executive Officers, see “Compensation Discussion and Analysis.”

The Company uses a combination of cash and stock-based incentive compensation to attract and retain qualified candidates to serve on the Board. In setting non-employee director compensation, the Board considers the significant amount of time that directors spend in fulfilling their duties, as well as the skill they bring to the Board. Any changes to non-employee director compensation practices are recommended by theHuman Capital andCompensation Committee, working with its Consultant, for approval by the full Board.

TheHuman Capital andCompensation Committee annually reviews and evaluates non-employee director compensation practices in relation to comparable companies. Based on its most recent review, conducted with the benefit of the committee’s Consultant, the committee recommended, and the Board approved the following increases effective August 2024, an increase to the annual retainer for the Board Chair of $10,000 and Audit Committee Chair of $5,000, and an increase in value of the RSU award to $170,000 for each non-employee director on the date of the annual shareholders meeting starting in 2024. A director first elected on a date other than the date of the annual shareholders meeting receives an RSU award that is discounted on a pro rata basis for the portion of the year served. Each RSU vests over a one-year period following its issuance.

In addition, non-employee directors are subject to a minimum share ownership requirement. Within five years of the date the director joins the Board, each non-employee director is required to directly own Common Shares of the Company with a market value of at least $350,000 (five times the annual board retainer). All Directors are in compliance with this ownership requirement, including those progressing toward the required amount.

| 43  Benchmark. Benchmark Electronics, Inc.     •    2025 Proxy Statement |

#### COMPENSATION TABLES AND NARRATIVES
Cash Compensation Paid to Non-employee Directors

The following table shows the 2024 non-employee director compensation program as determined by the Board upon the recommendation of theHuman Capital andCompensation Committee. Accrued meeting fees and pro rata retainers are paid quarterly.

| Annual Board Retainer                                                                |     | $ | 70,000 |
| Annual Non-Executive Board Chair Retainer                                            |     | $ | 90,000 |
| Annual Audit Committee Chair Retainer                                                |     | $ | 30,000 |
| Annual Audit Committee