Company: DRH-PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001298946-25-000038
Chunk: 34

Company: DiamondRock Hospitality Co
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 34
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 Proxy Statement
| Director Compensation |

• Meaningful stock ownership requirements of five times the annual cash retainer.

• Flexible voluntary deferral provisions and no material benefits or perquisites.

• Our 2024 Equity Incentive Plan includes a $750,000 annual compensation limit on all forms of compensation for non-employee directors other than the chairman and vice chairman of our Board of Directors.

Our Compensation Committee periodically reviews the compensation of our non-employee directors. In 2024, our Compensation Committee engaged FW Cook to conduct a study of non-employee director compensation programs in place at comparable public companies. The comparable companies were the same REITs as were used in competitive comparisons of executive compensation (see Compensation Discussion and Analysis - Use of Competitive Set). Based on the recommendation of FW Cook in August 2024, our Compensation Committee did not recommend to our Board of Directors any change in annual compensation of our non-employee directors from 2023 to 2024.

#### Cash Compensation
We compensate our directors through an annual retainer as opposed to per meeting fees. We have structured their compensation in this manner in order to simplify and clarify director compensation as each of our three standing committees was comprised of all independent directors in 2024 and meetings may often involve discussions covering the area of responsibility of more than one committee.

The following chart reflects the annual cash retainers paid to our non-employee directors in 2024.

| Name                                                               |     | Annual Fee    
 for Board     
 Membership(1) 
 ($)           |        |     |         | Annual Fee for Chairman of the Board, Committee 
 Chairs & Lead Director                          
 ($)                                             |     |         | Total Cash Fees Paid 
 ($)                  |
| William W. McCarten                                                
 (Chairman)                                                         |     |               | 95,000 |     | 100,000 |                                                 |     | 195,000 |                      |
| Bruce D. Wardinski(1)                                              
 (Lead Director and Compensation Committee Chair)                   |     |               | 95,000 |     |  75,000 |                                                 |     | 170,000 |                      |
| Timothy R. Chi                                                     
 (Director and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Chair) |     |               | 95,000 |     |  10,000 |                                                 |     | 105,000 |                      |
| Michael A. Hartmeier                                               
 (Director)                                                         |     |               | 95,000 |     |       — |                                                 |     |