Company: ISRG
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001035267-25-000098
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Company: INTUITIVE SURGICAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 19
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 2024, which amounts were unchanged from 2023:

| Board or Committee Position                                             |     | Cash Retainer ($) |        |
| General Annual Board Retainer                                           |     |                   | 70,000 |
| Additional Annual Retainer - Audit Committee Chair                      |     |                   | 25,000 |
| Additional Annual Retainer - Compensation Committee Chair               |     |                   | 20,000 |
| Additional Annual Retainer - Governance and Nominating Committee Chair  |     |                   | 15,000 |
| Additional Annual Retainer - Audit Committee Member                     |     |                   | 12,500 |
| Additional Annual Retainer - Compensation Committee Member              |     |                   | 10,000 |
| Additional Annual Retainer - Governance and Nominating Committee Member |     |                   |  7,500 |

Cash compensation is pro-rated for the time served by a director on the Board and any Board committees.

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#### Equity Compensation
Beginning in 2024, non-employee directors received grants solely in the form of RSUs, which vest 100% on the earlier of (i) the first anniversary of the grant date or (ii) the next annual meeting of stockholders following the grant date, subject to continued service through such vesting date.

During 2024, the non-employee directors received equity compensation granted at the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders with the following target values, which overall target equity compensation amounts were unchanged from 2023:

| Directors            |     | 2024         
 RSU          
 Value ($)(1) |         |
| Chair of the Board   |     |              | 395,000 |
| Members of the Board |     |              | 280,000 |

(1) The number of RSUs granted is determined by taking the RSU Value and dividing by the 60 trading-day average closing price of the Company’s common stock reported by Nasdaq through the last trading day of the month prior to the date of grant.

New non-employee directors receive a pro-rated equity grant based on the number of months remaining between appointment date and the expected date of the next annual grant.

Our stock ownership policy requires non-employee directors to own shares of our common stock having a total value equal to five (5x) times their annual cash retainer for serving as a member of our Board, not including any meeting fees, incentive awards, or committee, chair, or other similar retainers (the “Director Minimum Ownership Requirement