Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000883241-25-000008
Chunk: 64

Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 64
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 Fiscal 2024 Executive Compensation Overview
The cornerstone of our compensation philosophy continues to be pay for performance . We closely align the compensation paid to our NEOs with the achievement of financial goals that we view as central to our business strategy and are intended to drive both short- and long-term performance.

Our three core elements of NEO direct compensation are base salary, an annual cash incentive opportunity and annual equity awards. Over 90% of our NEOs’ fiscal 2024 compensation is performance-based and/or at risk. The graphic below reflects the approximate general distribution of these three core elements of NEO target total direct compensation (Target TDC) awarded during fiscal 2024 as determined by our Compensation Committee.

| Chief Executive Officer (Mr. Ghazi)(1)(2)(3) |     | Average of the Other NEOs(1)(2) |

(1) Amounts may not foot due to rounding.

(2) Mr. Ghazi succeeded Dr. de Geus as Chief Executive Officer on January 1, 2024, at which time Dr. de Geus transitioned to Executive Chair. All references to and disclosures of Chief Executive Officer compensation for fiscal 2024 in this Proxy Statement reflect Mr. Ghazi's compensation for fiscal 2024, which includes the period prior to January 1, 2024 when he served as President and Chief Operating Officer. After certain adjustments to his compensation, Dr. de Geus' Target TDC as Executive Chair is approximately 50% of the Target TDC of Mr. Ghazi, our Chief Executive Officer.

(3) Excludes one-time equity grant in connection with Mr. Ghazi's promotion to Chief Executive Officer, 100% of which was in the form of PRSUs.

#### 2025 Proxy Statement59
| PROPOSAL 4 — Advisory Vote to Approve Executive Compensation |

Fiscal 2024 EIP and PRSU Funding Outcomes

We performed well against our fiscal 2024 goals, as further described below.

#### FISCAL 2024 EIP PERFORMANCE

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|                                       |     | TARGET         |     |   PERFORMANCE 
 WEIGHTING (%) |     | PERFORMANCE      |     | RESULT |
| FUNDING THRESHOLD PAYMENT GOAL        |     |                |     |               |     |                  |     |        |
| Fiscal 2024 Non-GAAP Operating Margin |     | 26.95%(2)      |     |           N/A |     | 38.5