Company: WCN
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-032201
Chunk: 71

Company: Waste Connections, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 71
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 Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K, we are providing the following information about the ratio of the annual total compensation, calculated in accordance with the requirements of Item 402(c)(2)(x) of Regulation S-K (the “Annual Total Compensation”) of our median employee and the Annual Total Compensation of our President and CEO as of year-end 2024, Mr. Mittelstaedt. For 2024, our last completed fiscal year, Mr. Mittelstaedt’s 2024 Annual Total Compensation was $7,276,372, as reflected in the Summary Compensation Table included in this Proxy Statement. Our median employee was determined in accordance with the methodology described below to be a driver whose annual total compensation for 2024 was $70,686. The resulting ratio of our CEO’s pay to the pay of our median employee is approximately 103 to 1. As of December 31, 2024, our employee population consisted of 23,854 active employees, 11,191 of whom are commercial truck drivers and 1,958 of whom are mechanics. There were 20,187 employees located in the United States and 3,667 employees located in Canada. We applied a Canadian dollar to U.S. dollar exchange rate to the compensation paid in Canadian dollars based on the average exchange rate in 2024. We determined our median employee by examining 2024 W-2 box 5 amounts and foreign equivalent taxable income amounts for all of our full time and part time employees, excluding our CEO, who were employed by us on December 31, 2024. We did not include those employees on leave as of December 31, 2024. In addition, we did not include temporary agency employees whose compensation is determined by the agency and who are not considered our employees for purposes of the pay ratio calculation. The pay ratio reported above is a reasonable estimate calculated in a manner consistent with SEC rules, based on our internal records and the methodology described above. The SEC rules for identifying the median compensated employee allow companies to adopt a variety of methodologies, to apply certain exclusions and to make reasonable estimates and assumptions that reflect their employee populations and compensation practices. Accordingly, the pay ratio reported by other companies may not be comparable to the pay ratio reported above, as other companies have different employee populations and compensation practices and may use different methodologies, exclusions, estimates and assumptions in calculating their own pay ratios. Pay Versus Performance As required by Section 953(a) of the Dodd-Frank Wall