Company: TROW
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-028002
Chunk: 16

Company: PRICE T ROWE GROUP INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 16
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 communication to the director or directors to whom it is addressed unless it is a type of correspondence that the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee has identified as correspondence that may be retained in our files and not sent to directors. • The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee has authorized the general counsel to retain and not send to directors the following types of communications: • Advertising or promotional in nature (offering goods or services); • Complaints by clients with respect to ordinary course of business customer service and satisfaction issues, provided, however, that the general counsel will notify the chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of any complaints that, in the opinion of the general counsel, warrant immediate committee attention by their nature or frequency; or • Those clearly unrelated to our business, industry, management, Board, or committee matters. • These types of communications will be logged and filed but not circulated to directors. Except as described above, the general counsel will not screen communications sent to directors. The log of stockholder correspondence is available to members of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee for inspection. At least once each year, the general counsel will provide to the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee a summary of the communications received from stockholders, including the communications not sent to directors in accordance with screening procedures approved by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

| By                                                             
 the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board 
 of Directors of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.                      |
| Eileen P. Rominger, Chair                                      |
| Robert J. Stevens                                              |
| Sandra S. Wijnberg                                             |
| Alan                                                           
 D. Wilson                                                      |

| 28 | T. Rowe Price Group |

Compensation of Directors The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is responsible for periodically reviewing non-employee director compensation and benefits and recommending changes, if appropriate, to the full Board. Our non-employee director compensation program is designed to accomplish a number of objectives:

| • | Align                                                                       
 the interests of our non-employee directors with those of our stockholders, |

| • | Provide                                                                          
 competitive compensation for service to the Board by our non-employee directors, |

| • | Maintain                                                                                 
 appropriate consistency with our approach to compensation for our executive officers and 
 senior employees, and                                                                    |

| • | Attract                                                             
 and retain a diverse mix of capable and highly qualified directors. |

We provide both cash and equity compensation annually to our directors and believe that, over time, cash and equity compensation should reflect approximately