Company: NWFL
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-056227
Chunk: 27

Company: NORWOOD FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 27
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% of their compensation to their accounts in the 401(k) Plan, and Wayne Bank will match the first 3% of the contribution. Each participant has an individual account under the 401(k) Plan and may direct the investment of his or her account among a variety of investment options or vehicles available. The Bank also sponsors the ESOP which provides for retirement benefits to all employees who have met the eligibility requirements. Under the ESOP, shares of Company common stock are allocated to participants’ accounts as they become available based upon Company contributions to the plan. The Bank did not make any contributions to the ESOP in 2024. Benefits are paid following termination of employment either in shares of the Company common stock or in cash. Executive Elective Deferral Plan.The Company and the Bank have approved an Executive Elective Deferral Plan (the “Executive Plan”) which permits a select group of its management and highly compensated employees to participate in a non-qualifieddeferred compensation plan. The Executive Plan enables participants to voluntarily defer a portion of the receipt of their base salary and cash bonus payments to be earned in the future. The election to defer future salary amounts or bonus amounts payable in 2025 or future years must be made in writing prior to the beginning of the respective calendar year of deferrals. The Executive Plan will conform to the requirements of Internal Revenue Code Section 409A and related regulations regarding non-qualifieddeferred compensation arrangements and limits changes in the time and form of payment of benefits under the Executive Plan once these elections are made by a participant upon his or her election to participate in the Executive Plan for a specific calendar year. Amounts deferred by the participant will be credited with annualized interest earnings equal to the Wall Street Journal prime rate plus 200 basis points determined on the last business day of the immediately preceding the plan year, with a maximum earnings rate of 9% and a minimum earnings rate of 2%. Such earnings rate will be retroactively reduced to 2% annualized in the event that the participant violates the non-competeand non-solicitationrestrictions under the Executive Plan. The amounts payable to Executive Plan participants will be an unsecured liability of the Bank. Pay vs Performance.Regulations adopted by the SEC require companies to disclose information reflecting the relationship between executive compensation actually paid by a company and the company’s financial performance. The table below specifies executive compensation paid to James O. Donnelly, the Company’s Principal Executive Officer (“PEO”) and the other NEOs for the Company’s three most recently completed fiscal