Company: ALGN
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001097149-25-000021
Chunk: 46

Company: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 46
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 salary, annual cash incentive opportunity at target and the target value of equity awards. The amounts indicated do not reflect realized value of compensation actually paid to our NEOs. Amounts may not necessarily sum due to rounding.

The principal elements of the target TDC package of each member of executive management are:

• annual base salary;

• target annual cash incentive awards; and

• long-term incentive compensation in the form of equity awards with performance-based equity awards based on target performance.

In determining the mix of compensation among these elements, our Compensation and Human Capital Committee does not assign specific ratios. Instead, it typically structures compensation so that a significant portion of the target TDC is “at-risk” or performance-based, with the actual value realized subject to the achievement of short-term or long-term corporate and financial performance goals. By linking a significant portion of the compensation payable to each member of executive management to performance, the Committee emphasized incentive-based variable pay, which is consistent with our pay-for-performance philosophy and creates a strong alignment with long-term stockholder value creation.

Consistent with this pay-for-performance orientation, we believe that annual cash incentive (bonus) awards and long-term equity awards should together represent the most significant portion of each executive’s target TDC. As a result, a larger portion of executive management’s target TDC is at risk relative to that of our employees generally. The Committee believes this is appropriate because the members of executive management bear the greatest responsibility for our results and can exert the greatest influence on our performance.

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#### Base Salary
Base salary is intended to provide a fixed, baseline level of compensation that is not contingent upon our performance. Consistent with our pay-for-performance philosophy, base salaries generally represent a modest proportion of the target TDC opportunity for each member of executive management. In January 2024, our Compensation and Human Capital Committee reviewed the base salaries of our NEOs, comparing their salaries to the base salary levels of companies in our peer group, as well as considering their roles and responsibilities, expectations for future performance, tenure and their positioning for other elements of their compensation. After this review, our Compensation and Human Capital Committee made the adjustments to base salaries set forth in the table below.

| Name             |     | 2023 Base Salary |           |     | 2024 Base Salary |           |     | Percentage Increase |
|:-----------------|:----|:-----------------|----------:|:----|:-----------------|----------:|:----|:--------------------|
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