Company: BSX
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000885725-25-000017
Chunk: 58

Company: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 58
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 salary and annual short- and long-term incentives. As illustrated, CEO compensation was generally aligned with Company performance.

#### 482025 Proxy Statement

### Compensation Discussion & Analysis
Summary Compensation Table CEO Total Direct Compensation versus 3-Year TSR (1)(2)

(1) Amounts in the 2022, 2023 and 2024 columns were calculated as follows:

• the values of the annual equity awards granted on February 16, 2022, February 14, 2023 and February 12, 2024 were determined in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718, as described in the footnotes to the Summary Compensation Table beginning on page 72 ;

• the actual ABP award for 2022, 2023 and 2024; and

• the annual base salary earned in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

(2) TSR represents cumulative TSR on a fixed investment of $100 in our common stock for the period beginning on the last trading day of 2021 through the end of the applicable year and is calculated assuming the reinvestment of dividends.

The following chart shows the value of the primary elements of TDC, consisting of base salary and annual short- and long- term incentives, for our CEO in 2024 (i) at “target” opportunity as considered by our Compensation Committee; (ii) as disclosed in our Summary Compensation Table on page 72 ; and (iii) as “realizable” at December 31, 2024. These values were calculated using the 2024 base salary, annual equity incentives and ABP award amounts for our CEO as set forth in the table following this chart.

2024 CEO Compensation Target vs. Summary Compensation Table vs. Realizable ($ in 000s)

#### 2025 Proxy Statement49

### Compensation Discussion & Analysis
| Target                     
 Summary Compensation Table |     | Valuation of Compensation Component          
 Base Salary                                  
 Annual base salary approved in February 2024 
 Annual base salary earned in 2024            |     | Annual Bonus Plan Award 
 Target 2024 ABP Award   
 Actual 2024 ABP Award   |     | Long-Term Incentives                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
 Annual equity awards granted on February 12, 2024, with (a) stock options valued in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718 and (b) service-based restricted stock units (RSUs) and performance-based RSUs valued at target (the number of units and target units awarded