Company: VCYT
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001384101-25-000051
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Company: VERACYTE, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
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 and calculation of financial information, which are designed to prevent this information from being manipulated by any employee, including our executive officers.

• While we generally do not cap cash incentive awards for our sales commissions plans to maximize the incentive for our sales force to meet and exceed their revenue and other commercial objectives, we do maintain internal controls over the determination of sales incentive awards, which we believe helps prevent problematic behaviors.

• Our employees are required to comply with our Code of Conduct, which covers, among other things, accuracy in keeping financial and business records.

• As part of our Insider Trading Policy, we prohibit the trading of derivatives or hedging transactions involving our securities so that our Board of Directors, executive officers and all other employees cannot insulate themselves from the effects of poor stock price performance or engage in trading that is not aligned with value creation for our stockholders.

Elements of Our Executive Compensation Program

To maintain a competitive and comprehensive pay package, we utilize three primary compensation vehicles to reward our executives: base salary, annual cash incentives and long-term equity compensation. When setting our compensation practices, we ensure that our program will focus our executive officers on leading our entire organization toward achieving both short-term and long-term strategic, financial and operational goals, and increasing stockholder value, without encouraging excessive risk-taking.

#### 2024 Base Salaries
Base salaries serve to provide fixed cash compensation to our executive officers for performing their ongoing responsibilities. Base salaries for our executive officers are approved by the Compensation Committee upon the executive joining us, and then reviewed and adjusted, as appropriate, by the Compensation Committee on an annual basis, in consultation with Aon and based on consideration of various factors, including:

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#### The individual’s role and responsibilities;
• Individual contribution and performance of the past year;

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#### Overall experience and expertise;
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#### Current Veracyte base salary;
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#### Corporate performance; and
• Salaries for similar positions within our industry.

#### 52Veracyte2025 Proxy Statement

#### Executive Compensation
Our Compensation Committee and, with respect to our Chief Executive Officer, the independent members of the Board of Directors, approved the following base salaries for our NEOs in February 2023 in a similar manner, and at similar levels as our company-wide practices.

| Executive        |     |         | 2023 Base Salary 
 ($)              |     |         | 2024 Base Salary 
 ($)              |     |     | % Change 
 (%)      |
| Marc Stapley     |     | 650,