Company: ZVRA
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: PREC14A
Source: 0001193125-25-068746
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Company: ZEVRA THERAPEUTICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: PREC14A
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. Our positioning on compensation is intended to keep the Company competitive while strongly incentivizing performance and appropriately controlling executive compensation cost. Elements of Our Executive Compensation Program Historically, and for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, our executive compensation program consisted of the following elements, each established as part of our program in order to achieve the compensation objective specified below:

| Compensation Element                                                                                 |     | Compensation Objectives to be Achieved                                                                                                                                 |
| Base Salary                                                                                          |     | Attracts and retains talented executives, recognizes individual roles and responsibilities, and provides stable income.                                                |
| Cash-Based Incentive Compensation                                                                    |     | Promotes short-term performance objectives and rewards executives for their contributions toward achieving those objectives.                                           |
| Long-Term Incentive Compensation                                                                     |     | Aligns executives’ interests with our stockholders’ interests, emphasizes long-term financial and operational performance, and helps retain executive talent.          |
| Severance and Other Benefits Potentially Payable upon Termination of Employment or Change in Control |     | Aids in attracting and retaining executive talent and helps executives to remain focused and dedicated during potential transition periods due to a Change in Control. |
| Retirement, Health, Welfare and Additional Benefits                                                  |     | Aids in attracting and retaining executive talent by supplementing competitive compensation packages.                                                                  |

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| We do not currently have, and we do not expect to have, formal policies relating to the allocation of total compensation among the various elements of our compensation program. |

Base Salary The base salaries of our NEOs are an important part of their total compensation package, intended to reflect their respective positions, duties and responsibilities. Our NEOs receive base salary to compensate them for satisfactory performance of their duties to our Company. The base salary payable to each NEO is intended to provide a visible and stable fixed component of compensation, reflecting the executive’s skill set, experience, role and responsibilities. Base salaries provide our NEOs with a reasonable degree of financial certainty and stability. Our Compensation Committee periodically reviews NEO base salaries in consultation with management and the committee’s compensation consultant to determine whether any adjustments are necessary or appropriate. The following table shows the annual base salaries of our NEOs for 2023, 2024 and 2025. All annual base salary increases were effective March 1 of the given year.

| Name                         |     | 2023 AnnualBase Salary ($) |     | 2024 AnnualBase Salary ($) |     | 2025 AnnualBase Salary ($) |
| Neil F. McFarlane