Company: BHE
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-051057
Chunk: 38

Company: BENCHMARK ELECTRONICS INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 38
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 comply with all applicable securities laws. Accordingly, the Company’s Securities Trading Policy applies to all directors, officers of employees and governs transactions involving the sale of purchase of the Company’s equity securities (as defined in the Exchange Act) including transactions by the Company in its own equity securities. When transacting in its own securities, the Company will not engage in such transactions while aware of material nonpublic information relating to the Company, except pursuant to a properly adopted “Rule 10b5-1 trading plan” and when engaging in in transactions with plan participants pursuant to any equity incentive compensation plan, including transactions with grantees or holders of options, warrants, rights, and restricted stock units, whether time-based vesting or performance-based vesting, including the holder’s exercise, including cashless exercise of stock options, conversion, vesting, direct tax withholding, payment of exercise price, or other elections pursuant to a grant or award.

Refer to Exhibit 19.1 of Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 for the Company's Securities Trading Policy.

Deferred Compensation Benefits

In order to attract and retain key employees, the Company established the Benchmark Electronics, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan (the “Deferred Compensation Plan”), which allows certain designated employees, including our Named Executive Officers, the opportunity to defer, on a pretax basis, their salary, bonus awards, and other specified compensation and to receive the deferred amounts, together with an investment return (positive or negative), either at a predetermined time in the future or upon termination of employment with the Company. The Company intends that the Deferred Compensation Plan will at all times be maintained on an unfunded basis for federal income tax purposes under the Internal Revenue Code (the "Code") and be administered as a nonqualified ‘‘top-hat’’ plan exempt from the substantive requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. All contributions by employees to the Deferred Compensation Plan, as well as any contributions by the Company, are fully vested upon contribution.

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#### COMPENSATION DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
RetirementBenefits

All employees in the United States, including our executive officers, are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Employee Savings Plan (the “Savings Plan”). The Savings Plan is a defined contribution tax-qualified retirement savings plan pursuant to which employees are able to contribute a portion of their eligible cash compensation to the Savings Plan and