Company: SFB
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-094691
Chunk: 43

Company: STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 43
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 and similar fees. The fixed costs of owning or operating the aircraft is not included. Based on historical and anticipated usage of the airplane by Mr. Weisel and such other employees, the Committee approved the payment of the airplane allowance on the condition that any personal flight activity attributable to a Company employee would be included in such employee’s annual compensation. Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation. No current member of the Committee is or has been at any time one of the Company’s officers or employees. None of the Company’s executive officers serves, or has served during the last completed fiscal year, as a member of the Board of Directors or Compensation Committee of any entity that has one or more executive officers serving as a member of the Company’s Board or the Committee. CEO PAY RATIO The following table sets forth the median of the 2024 total compensation of all employees of Stifel other than the CEO, the 2024 total compensation of the CEO, and the ratio of these two amounts, each as determined in accordance with Item 402(u) of SEC Regulation S-K.

|                         |     | Year |     |   Salary |     |      Bonus |     | Stock Awards |     | All Other   Compensation |     |       Total |
| Ronald J. Kruszewski    |     | 2024 |     | $200,000 |     | $5,920,000 |     |   $9,040,000 |     |                 $922,515 |     | $16,082,515 |
| Median Employee         |     | 2024 |     | $118,749 |     |     $2,700 |     |            — |     |                   $3,000 |     |    $124,449 |
| CEO Pay Ratio: 129 to 1 |     |      |     |          |     |            |     |              |     |                          |     |             |

The median employee was determined as of December 31, 2024 and by utilizing the gross wages as reported on each employee’s IRS Form W-2,in the United States, or as reported on analogous forms outside the United States. In determining the median employee, we excluded employees who operated in jurisdictions outside of the United States and the United Kingdom and who are less than 5% of our total employees, consisting of 458 employees in 10 foreign jurisdictions. The total number of employees that operated within the United States and the United Kingdom at the end of 2024 was 8