Company: WSBC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-039418
Chunk: 28

Company: WESBANCO INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 28
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: Estimated Current Market Placement - Peer Group  for CEO and CFO and Industry Average for others (%ile)  |                                                                  50 |                                                                   3 |                                                                                   40 |                                                                                   35 |                                                                                   40 |
| Total Compensation: Estimated Current Market Placement - Peer Group  for CEO and CFO and Industry Average for others (%ile) |                                                                  35 |                                                                  25 |                                                                                   35 |                                                                                   30 |                                                                                   34 |
| Target Total Compensation Percentile:                                                                                       
 Compared to applicable Peer Group or Industry                                                                               | 50 (currently set at this level as a target and disclosed in proxy) | 50 (currently set at this level as a target and disclosed in proxy) | Target percentile  ___ – tied to  Industry data for banks of similar size/structure) | Target percentile  ___ – tied to  Industry data for banks of similar size/structure) | Target percentile  ___ – tied to  Industry data for banks of similar size/structure) |

Cowden discussed with the Committee various options to consider and also discussed plan design best practices for the Corporation's Incentive, Bonus, Option and Restricted Stock Plan. The Committee noted that many of the best practices were already incorporated into the incentive plan design. They favored an increased ratio in performance based compensation as an appropriate method to close the gap while also adjusting base compensation and its direct relation to adjusting incentive compensation as a method to keep pace with the growth of the Corporation.

The Compensation Committee, at its meeting on May 15, 2024, also received a separate management-prepared total compensation comparison with the 2024 Peer Group. This analysis compared each type of compensation (base pay, incentive compensation, stock options and awards, retirement benefits and all other compensation) and total average compensation for each named executive officer of Wesbanco to the average of the 2024 Peer Group based on 2024 proxy information (2023 data). This analysis utilized averages and percentiles. The Compensation Committee did not attempt to maintain an established target percentile compensation level with regard to this management-provided compensation data. Rather the Committee used this information to determine whether the compensation paid to our executives was generally competitive

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relative to the market. The Committee addressed the gaps in base compensation by increasing Mr. Jackson's and Mr. Weiss's base compensation to bring them more in line with peer averages. The Committee also addressed the gap in total compensation by authorizing the implementation of a supplemental executive retirement plan ("SERP")