Company: ISRG
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001035267-25-000098
Chunk: 51

Company: INTUITIVE SURGICAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 51
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 vesting schedules, they help ensure our executive officers have significant value tied to our long-term stock price performance. As described above in the Compensation Discussion and Analysis, we have established procedures related to the timing and approval of equity awards. Beginning in 2022, the Compensation Committee approved the implementation of a performance equity award program in which executives, including the named executive officers, were granted PSUs as a portion of their equity mix for the year. The PSUs provide a strong long-term focus on both operational and stock-based performance of the Company without encouraging significant risk-taking in order to achieve such performance goals.

Because of the above, we believe that our employee compensation programs appropriately balance risk and the desire to focus employees on specific short-term goals important to the Company’s success.

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### COMPENSATION OF NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

#### 2024 Summary Compensation Table
The following Summary Compensation Table sets forth summary information concerning the compensation provided to our NEOs in the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, for services to our Company in all capacities.

| Name and Principal Position During 2024                                        |     |      |     | Year |     |         |     | Salary 
 ($)    |           |     |           |     | Stock     
 Awards    
 ($)(1)(2) |            |     |           |     | Option 
 Awards 
 ($)(1) |           |     |           |     | Non-Equity     
 Incentive Plan 
 Compensation   
 ($)(3)         |           |     |       |     | All Other Compensation 
 ($)(4)                 |        |     |            |     | Total ($) |            |
| Gary S. Guthart, Ph.D.                                                         |     |      |     | 2024 |     |         |     |        | 1,006,250 |     |           |     |           | 15,559,188 |     |           |     |        |         — |     |           |     |                | 1,628,994 |     |       |     |                        |  2,000 |     |            |     |           | 18,196,432 |
| Chief Executive Officer                                                        |     |      |     | 2023 |     |         |     |        |   955,000 |     |           |     |           |  7,385,307 |     |           |     |        | 2,