Company: BSX
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000885725-25-000017
Chunk: 62

Company: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 62
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% of the votes cast in favor of the proposal, evidencing strong stockholder support of our executive compensation program in 2024, which has continued to align our executives’ financial interest with our business strategy and the long-term interests of our stockholders. |     | Say on Pay Results |
|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |     | 2024               
 92.7%              |
|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |     | 2023               
 92.6%              |
|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |     | 2022               
 89.7%              |

#### 522025 Proxy Statement

### Compensation Discussion & Analysis

#### How We Determine Executive Compensation

#### Executive Compensation Philosophy and Objectives
Our philosophy is to provide appropriate competitive compensation opportunities to our executives such that actual pay outcomes are heavily influenced by achievement of Company, business and individual performance targets and objectives, which are designed to support our business strategy and create long‐term stockholder value. The core objectives of our compensation program are to:

|                                                                                                                     |     | Attract, retain andengagetop talent.                                         |
| Incentivize achievement of key Company, business and individual targets/objectives tosupport our business strategy. |     | Reinforce ourculture of quality.                                             |
| Effectively align compensation risk with our business strategy toensure balanced and sustainable outcomes.          |     | Align management’s interest with thelong-term interests of our stockholders. |

#### 2025 Proxy Statement53

### Compensation Discussion & Analysis

#### Participants in the Compensation Process
Our Compensation Committee bears principal responsibility for, among other things, structuring our executive compensation program and making individual executive compensation determinations. To help facilitate informed decision-making, our Compensation Committee engages an independent compensation consul tant, Semler Brossy Consulting Group, LLC (Semler Brossy), which serves under its direction and supervision. For further information about our Compensation Committee and the services provided by Semler Brossy, see Executive Compensation and Human Resources Committee on page 31 . Semler Brossy and certain members of management support our Compensation Committee with respect to the following, among other things:

| Independent Advisor                                                                    |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Semler BrossyAdvisor to the CompensationCommittee                                      |     | •Expert advice, research analytics, including peer group composition, trends and comparative practices, including an annual competitive assessment in executive compensation program design and non-employee director compensation. 
 •Commentary and/or recommendations as to the foregoing