Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-064607
Chunk: 81

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 81
---
 7,196,530 |     | $                           | 10,040,238 |     | $               | 1,986,287 |

| AMERICAN WATER |2025 PROXY STATEMENT |     | 61 |

| (2) | The identity of the companies, and the analysis utilized by the ED&CC to review and approve changes, in the peer group for 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020 are incorporated by reference from the descriptions contained in “—Compensation Discussion and Analysis—Compensation Determinations and Pay Competitiveness” in this proxy statement and in the corresponding sections of our 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 proxy statements. The peer groups for 2024, 2023 and 2022 were comprised of the same companies, except that UGI Corporation replaced Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated, beginning with the 2023 peer group. The peer groups for 2021 and 2020 were comprised of the same companies as for 2022, except that MDU Resources Group, Inc., which had been included in the 2021 and 2020 peer groups, was replaced by Essential Utilities, Inc. in 2022. |

| (3) | This metric is the Company-Selected Measure, which in our assessment represents the most important financial performance measure that we use to link compensation “actually paid” (as defined by SEC rule) in 2024 to our NEOs. Adjusted EPS for 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 is anon-GAAPmeasure. See Part A of Appendix A for a reconciliation. |

| (4) | Ms. Hardwickhas been serving as our PEO effective as of February 2, 2022. |

| (5) | The persons included as the other NEOs in this calculation for each year are: (i) for 2024, Mses. Kennedy, Norton and Mitchell, and Messrs. Bowler and Griffith; (ii) for 2023 and 2022, Mses. Kennedy and Norton, and James H. Gallegos and Mr. Griffith; (iii) for 2021, Mses. Kennedy, Hardwick and Norton, and Adam Noble and Michael A. Sgro; and (iv) for 2020, Ms. Hardwick, and Brian Chin, Bruce A. Hauk, Mr. Sgro and Loyd