Company: CRL
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-030908
Chunk: 96

Company: CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 96
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 time to identify the median employee given the global scope of our operations. As we are a non-retail, non-seasonal business and do not employ a large, seasonal, temporary workforce in the month of December, we believe this methodology resulted in a median employee who is representative of our workforce throughout the course of the year. Adjustments to our Employee Population As permitted by the Pay Ratio Rule, we adjusted our total employee population (as described above) for purposes of identifying our “median employee” by excluding 959 of our employees located in certain jurisdictions outside of the United States given the relatively small number of employees in those jurisdictions, as follows: 21 employees from Australia; 77 employees from Belgium; 42 employees from Brazil; 4 employees from Denmark; 142 employees from Finland; 51 employees from India; 2 employees from Israel; 307 employees from Italy; 2 employees from Japan; 1 employee from Philippines; 2 employees from Poland; 38 employees from Singapore; 41 employees from South Korea; 219 employees from Spain; 3 employees from Sweden; and 7 employees from Switzerland. After taking into account the above-described adjustments to our employee population as permitted by the Pay Ratio Rule, our total adjusted employee population for purposes of determining our “median employee” consisted of 19,649 individuals. Determining our Median Employee Our estimation method for identifying our “median employee” from our total adjusted employee population was the calculation and comparison of the budgeted, annualized, total target cash compensation (BATTCC) of our employees as reflected in our global human capital management system. This method involves annualizing the compensation of employees who were hired in 2024 but did not work for us for the entire fiscal year, and further, converting the BATTCC of non-US employees to USD using global currency exchange rates as of November 1, 2024. We identified our “median employee” using this compensation 71

measure, which was consistently applied to all our employees included in the calculation. We did not apply any cost-of-living adjustments in identifying our “median employee”. Our Median Employee Using the methodologies described above, we determined that our “median employee” was a full-time, hourly employee located in the United States, with a BATTCC for the 12-month period ending December 28, 2024 in the amount of $52,319. Determination of Annual Total Compensation of our “Median Employee” and our CEO Once we identified our “median employee”, we then calculated such