Company: BA
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-049921
Chunk: 97

Company: BOEING CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 97
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| (7) | Free cash flowis the financial measure from the tabular list of 2024 Most Important Measures show below, which, in the Company’s assessment, represents for 2024 the most important performance measure used to link compensation actually paid to our prior and interim CEOs and other NEOs to the Company’s performance (Mr. Ortberg did not participate in our annual incentive plan for 2024). Free cash flow is defined in Appendix A on pageA-1and is anon-GAAPfinancial measure. |

Required Tabular Disclosure of Most Important Measures Linking Compensation Actually Paid During 2024 to Company Performance

As required, we disclose below the most important measures used by the Company to link compensation actually paid to our NEOs for 2024 to Company performance. For further information regarding these performance metrics and their function in our executive compensation program, please see “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” beginning on page 45.

| 2024 Most Important Measures (Unranked) |     |                          |
| •Free cash flow                         |     | •Operational performance |
| •Operating earnings                     |     | •Revenue                 |

| 2025 Proxy Statement |     | 85 |

COMPENSATION OF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Required Disclosure of the Relationship Between Compensation Actually Paid and Financial Performance Measures The following graphs further illustrate the relationship between the pay and performance figures that are included in the pay versus performance tabular disclosure above. In addition, the first graph below further illustrates the relationship between Company total shareholder return and that of the S&P 500 Aerospace & Defense Industry Index. As noted above, “compensation actually paid” for purposes of the tabular disclosure and the following graphs were calculated in accordance with SEC rules and do not fully represent the actual final amount of compensation earned by or actually paid to our NEOs during the applicable years.

| 86 |     | 2025 Proxy Statement |

COMPENSATION OF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

| 2025 Proxy Statement |     | 87 |

RATIFY THE APPOINTMENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITOR (ITEM 3) PROPOSAL SUMMARY Shareholders are being asked to ratify the selection of Deloitte & Touche LLP (Deloitte), an independent registered public accounting firm, to serve as our independent auditor for 2025.

| The Board recommends that you vote FOR this proposal. |

The Audit Committee is directly responsible for the appointment, compensation (including pre-approvalof the audit fees), retention and oversight of the