Company: CHD
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-059273
Chunk: 73

Company: CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 73
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 health-related issues pertaining to an executive can be identified and addressed promptly. The average cost for providing this benefit in 2024 is approximately $3,557 per participating executive. We also offer a financial planning program to our named executive officers. The average cost for providing this benefit in 2024 is approximately $12,026 per participating executive. Except as noted above, we do not have programs for providing personal benefit perquisites to executive officers. From time to time the Company makes donations to non-profitorganizations or educational institutions as requested by our executive officers and directors. The aggregate amount of all such donations with respect to all executive officers was $60,000 in 2024. 2025 COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS DECISIONS For 2025, the Committee approved the following changes to target total direct compensation for our named executive officers, taking into account median levels of our Compensation Peer Group and industry survey data for such year.

| 62 |     | Church & Dwight Co.  | 2025 Proxy Statement |

| COMPENSATION DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS |

| total direct compensation in recognition of Mr. Dierker’s first appointment as CEO of a public company as well as Mr. Farrell’s continued role as Chairman of the Board of Directors. |

| • |     | CFO Compensation. In determining Mr. McChesney’s target total direct compensation for his service as CFO commencing on March 24, 2025, the Committee evaluated CFO compensation levels, with the assistance of its independent compensation consultant, by reference to the Compensation Peer Group as well as to Mr. Dierker’s target total direct compensation as CFO and Head of Business Operations. After this evaluation, the Committee set Mr. McChesney’s target total direct compensation within a range of the median level of our Compensation Peer Group and at 80 percent of the level of Mr. Dierker’s target as CFO and Head of Business Operations. Mr. McChesney will receive an annual base salary of $700,000, an Annual Incentive Plan target of 85 percent of his base salary, and a Long-Term Incentive target of 245 percent of his base salary. Mr. McChesney will receive a one-time grant of restricted stock units with a two-year ratable vesting schedule with an aggregate grant date value of $2,200,000 as a make-whole award for certain long-term incentive award forfeitures Mr. McChesney will incur from his prior