Company: AIZ
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001267238-25-000011
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Company: ASSURANT, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: PRE 14A
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 The Compensation and Talent Committee also regularly meets in executive sessions without members of management present to discuss recommendations and make decisions with respect to compensation for the Company’s executive officers.

| 55 |     | Notice of 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and Proxy Statement |

| Compensation Discussion and Analysis |

#### Input from Management
Our CEO is not involved in the Compensation and Talent Committee’s determination of his compensation. The CEO completes a self-assessment of his own performance against prescribed criteria and each independent director separately assesses the CEO’s performance using the same criteria. Our CEO annually reviews the performance and compensation of each of our executive officers relative to market pay levels using published survey data, while considering each NEO’s scope of role, individual performance, contributions and experience, as described in “Compensation Peer Group” on page 56, and makes recommendations regarding their compensation to the Compensation and Talent Committee. The CEO also provides input to the Compensation and Talent Committee on the ESTIP and ALTEIP performance goals for the Company’s executive officers.

#### Input from Independent Compensation Consultant
Our Compensation and Talent Committee engaged Pearl Meyer as an independent compensation consultant throughout 2024. The nature and scope of the services provided by Pearl Meyer included participating in Compensation and Talent Committee meetings, benchmarking compensation for the executive officers, providing advice and recommendations related to the compensation of executive officers, composition of compensation peer group, plan design and director compensation, and providing updates on trends and developments in executive compensation.

The decisions made by the Compensation and Talent Committee are the responsibility of the Compensation and Talent Committee and may reflect factors other than the recommendations and information provided by its independent compensation consultant. The Compensation and Talent Committee assessed the independence of Pearl Meyer in 2024, as required under NYSE listing rules. The Compensation and Talent Committee also considered and assessed all relevant factors, including those set forth under the Exchange Act, that could give rise to a potential conflict of interest with respect to the independent compensation consultant. Based on this review, we are not aware of any conflict of interest raised by the work performed by Pearl Meyer that would prevent it from serving as an independent consultant to the Compensation and Talent Committee.

#### Compensation Peer Group
Consistent with recent years, the Compensation and Talent Committee used Willis Towers Watson general industry survey data, regressed to the Company’s revenue size, as a market reference for evaluating pay positioning when establishing 2024 pay levels. In its deliberations, the Compensation and Talent Committee referenced target total direct compensation for each NEO, benchmarking against data provided for executives with similar responsibilities at