Company: CL
Filing Date: 2025-06-25
Form Type: 11-K
Source: 0000021665-25-000033
Chunk: 5

Company: COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO
Filing Date: 2025-06-25
Form: 11-K
Chunk 5
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 can generally contribute to the Plan between 1% and 100% of their eligible compensation. Participants may generally begin, resume or suspend contributions, change their contribution rate and the allocation of their contributions between pre-tax and after-tax earnings on a daily basis. Participants are always fully vested in their contributions and related investment earnings. Under the Puerto Rico IRC the maximum allowable participant pre-tax contribution was $15,000 for 2024. Participants who are expected to reach or are over the age of 50 during the Plan year and have made the maximum pre-tax contributions are eligible to make additional catch-up contributions. The maximum allowable catch-up contribution under the Puerto Rico IRC was $1,500 for 2024, on a pre-tax basis.

Participants are also able to contribute to the Plan rollover distributions from other qualified benefit plans.

Employees participating in the Plan may direct the investment of their contributions into various investment options offered by the Plan and may change their investment direction on a daily basis. Participants may, on a daily basis, diversify/transfer their participant account balances among any of the investment funds in the Plan.

Company Matching Contributions

The Company matches participant pre-tax contributions at a rate of 50% or 75% of the participant’s pre-tax contributions, up to a maximum of 6% of participant eligible compensation depending on years of service. Company matching contributions are initially invested in Colgate-Palmolive Company Common Stock and are diversifiable on a daily basis, immediately upon allocation, among any of the investment funds in the Plan. Vesting in the Company’s matching contribution portion of participants’ accounts is based on years of service. Participants are 50% vested in their matching contribution accounts after two years of service and fully vested after three years of service or, if while active, they reach age 55, become permanently disabled, or die, or in the event of Plan termination. Effective April 1, 2024, Company matching contributions are not available to interns.

Company Retirement Contributions Program

The Company allocates Basic Retirement Contributions (“BRCs”) and Additional Basic Retirement Contributions (“ABRCs”) to participants. BRCs are based on eligible compensation and number of years of service with the Company. Employees with less than 10 years of service will receive 4% of eligible compensation and employees with 10 or more years of service will receive 5% of eligible compensation. ABRCs in the amount of 1% of eligible compensation are made for employees hired prior to November 1, 2012. Employees