Company: BSX
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000885725-25-000017
Chunk: 63

Company: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 63
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 •Participation in Compensation Committee meetings.                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Management                                                                             |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer and Total Rewards Management Team |     | •Proposals for executive employment arrangements, including with respect to compensation and benefits design and pay levels.                                                                                                        
 •Reporting and advising on incentive risk assessments and talent diversity and inclusion topics, including pay equity.                                                                                                              
 •Expert advice, research analytics, commentary and/or recommendations as to the foregoing.                                                                                                                                          
 •Participation in Compensation Committee meetings.                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Chief Executive Officer and other Executives                                           |     | •Overview of individual performance of direct reports.                                                                                                                                                                              
 •Recommendations as to compensation of direct reports.                                                                                                                                                                              
 •With respect to the CEO and General Counsel, participation in Compensation Committee meetings, as needed, except for determinations of their own compensation.                                                                     |

#### Compensation Peer Group
Our Compensation Committee uses competitive market analysis as a decision-making reference. The Compensation Committee primarily considers executive compensation comparative data for our peer group companies to better understand trends and comparative practices, program design in the market within which we compete for top talent and competitive levels and mix of target compensation opportunities provided to our executives. Our peer group includes companies (i) operating in a comparable industry with respect to customer base and/or product offerings, such as healthcare equipment and services companies, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology and life sciences; and (ii) that, in the aggregate, approximate our size as measured by revenue and market capitalization.

Each year, with the support of its independent compensation consultant, our Compensation Committee reviews the composition and appropriateness of our peer group, taking into account the size, performance and business focus of these companies relative to ours. The peer companies used to determine 2024 compensation levels are listed below. In May 2024, our Compensation Committee determined to add GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. to our peer group, which will be included in the peer group for determining fiscal year 2025 compensation levels.

#### 542025 Proxy Statement

### Compensation Discussion & Analysis

#### 2024 Peer Companies
| Abbott Laboratories           |     | Edwards Lifesciences Corporation |     | Quest Diagnostics Incorporated |
| Agilent Technologies, Inc.    |     | Hologic, Inc.                    |     | Stryker Corporation            |
| Baxter International Inc.     |     | Intuitive Surgical, Inc.         |     | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.  |
| Becton, Dickinson and Company