Company: WTFCN
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-031671
Chunk: 89

Company: WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 89
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 Company’s Proxy Statement, its Annual Report on Form 10-K and such other filings with the SEC as may be appropriate. Compensation Committee

| ​ | ELIZABETH H. CONNELLY (CHAIR) | ​ | ​ | KARIN GUSTAFSON TEGLIA  | ​ |
| ​ | PETER D. CRIST                | ​ | ​ | ALEX E. WASHINGTON, III | ​ |
| ​ | SUZET M. MCKINNEY             | ​ | ​ | ​                       | ​ |

CEO PAY RATIO DISCLOSURE As required by Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Company is providing the following disclosure about the relationship of the annual total compensation of our employees to the annual total compensation of Mr. Crane, our President and Chief Executive Officer as of December 31, 2024. We believe that the pay ratio disclosed below is a reasonable estimate calculated in a manner consistent with Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K. For 2024, • The median of the annual total compensation of all of our employees, other than Mr. Crane, was $78,741. • Mr. Crane’s annual total compensation, as reported in the Total column of the 2024 Summary Compensation Table was $6,082,951. • Based on this information, the ratio of the annual total compensation of Mr. Crane to the median of the annual total compensation of all employees is estimated to be 77.3 to 1. We selected October 1, 2024 as the date on which to determine our median employee. As of that date, we had had approximately 5,896 employees. The pay ratio disclosure rules provide an exemption for companies to exclude non-U.S. employees from the median employee calculation if non-U.S. employees in a particular jurisdiction account for five percent (5%) or less of the Company’s total number of employees. We applied this de minimis exemption when identifying the median employee by excluding 153 employees in Canada and one employee in Puerto Rico. After taking into account the de minimis exemption, 5,742 employees in the United States and zero employees located outside of the United States were considered for identifying the median employee. For purposes of identifying the median employee from the employee population base, other than Mr. Crane, we considered W-2 gross taxable wages for calendar year 2024. In addition, we annualized compensation for employees who commenced employment with the Company after