Company: DXPE
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001020710-25-000087
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Company: DXP ENTERPRISES INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: DEF 14A
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 Our methodology, material assumptions and estimates for the calculation of this ratio is described below.

• The median employee was identified as of December 31, 2024 by calculating the median for total cash compensation for 2024 for all full-time, part-time, seasonal, or temporary employees (excluding our CEO), whether located in the U.S., Canada, Mexico or the United Arab Emirates.

• Total cash compensation for each employee is used as our consistently applied compensation measure, and this number is derived from amounts reported in our payroll records. The Company believes that total cash compensation is an appropriate measure to identify the median employee, since the use of long-term equity compensation is not widespread at the Company.

• If a full-time or part-time employee was not employed by the Company for the entirety of the year, an annualized total compensation was calculated for that employee; however, part-time employees were not converted to full-time as part of this annualization.

• After we identified the median employee based on total cash compensation, we calculated the annual total compensation for both Mr. Little and the median employee using the methodology for calculating the total compensation set forth in the Summary Compensation Table (“SCT”) of this proxy statement. Our annual total compensation in 2024 was determined to be $66,003 for our median employee and $5,254,317 for Mr. Little.

• The CEO pay ratio was then calculated by dividing the annual total compensation for Mr. Little by the annual total compensation for the median employee, which yielded the ratio of 80:1. Thus, we estimate that Mr. Little’s 2024 annual total compensation was approximately 80 times that of our median employee.

#### DXP ENTERPRISES, INC. 2025 PROXY STATEMENT49

#### Pay Versus Performance
As required by Section 953(a) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K, we are providing the following information about the relationship between executive Compensation Actually Paid (“CAP”) and certain financial performance of the Company. For further information concerning the Company's pay-for-performance philosophy and how the Company aligns executive compensation, refer to the "Compensation Discussion and Analysis" starting on pages 33-35.

The following table displays our NEOs compensation relative to the Company’s key performance measures of net income, adjusted EBITDAand returns on a $100 calculated investment in the Company's common stock compared to the Dow Jones U.S Industrial Suppliers Index (DJUSDS), NASDAQ Industrial