Company: USB-PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-020883
Chunk: 59

Company: US BANCORP \DE\
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 59
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 long-term business strategy and negatively affect shareholder value. Our compensation practices are also designed to reward performance while maintaining our core commitment to customer service and ethical principles. Together with the company’s processes for strategic planning, its internal control over financial reporting and other financial and compliance policies and practices, the design of our compensation program helps to discourage management actions that demonstrate insensitivity to risk. Role of management:As a large financial services company, we are subject to ongoing regulatory reviews of incentive compensation policies and practices. We routinely undertake a thorough risk analysis of every incentive compensation plan of the company, the individuals covered by each plan and the risks inherent in each plan’s design and implementation. We also conduct validation and back-testing activities to ensure that our compensation plans are correctly risk rated, that they are designed to adequately mitigate inherent risk, and that each plan is administered effectively. The Incentive Review Committee was created to oversee that review and to provide more comprehensive oversight of the relationship between the various kinds of risk we manage and our company’s incentive compensation plans and programs. The Incentive Review Committee meets throughout the year and reviews and approves all company incentive plans. The Incentive Review Committee reviews incentive plan elements such as risk controls, plan participants, performance measures, performance and payout curves or formulas, how target level performance is determined (including whether any thresholds and caps exist), how frequently payouts occur, and the mix of fixed and variable compensation that the plan delivers. The plans and programs are also reviewed from the standpoint of reasonableness (for example, how target pay levels compare to similar plans for similar employee groups at other companies, and how payout amounts relate to the results that generate the payments), how well the plans and programs are aligned with the company’s goals and objectives and with its risk appetite, and from an overall standpoint, whether these plans and programs represent an appropriate mix of short-term and long-term compensation. As part of this review by the Incentive Review Committee, our management team, including senior risk officers and individuals from the compensation department, have identified the risks inherent in these programs and have modified plans and controls where appropriate to mitigate certain potential risks. For example, most business line incentive compensation plans with a credit component track early defaults, or defaults that occur within the first 12 months, and must include a provision that allows the company to offset future payments by the amount of the previously paid incentives related to the early default. In addition, a “risk scorecard” assessment measuring adequacy of risk management is undertaken for senior management-level employees who have the individual