Company: WCN
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-032201
Chunk: 51

Company: Waste Connections, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 51
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 for Mr. Mittelstaedt, Ms. Whitney, Mr. Chambliss, Mr. Shea and Mr. Little, respectively. (3) Amount shown reflects costs incurred by the Company related to (a) matching contributions under the Company’s 401(k) plan, (b) life insurance premiums, (c) professional association dues, (d) tax preparation expenses, (e) club dues, (f) optional annual executive physical examinations, (g) personal use of corporate aircraft incidental to a business function, and (h) other personal use of corporate aircraft. We make private aircraft available for business use to our NEOs and other employees. Our general policy is not to permit employees, including the NEOs, to use the aircraft for personal use. Occasionally, employees or their relatives or spouses, including relatives or spouses of the NEOs, may derive personal benefit from travel on our aircraft incidental to a business function, such as when an NEO’s spouse accompanies the officer to the location of an event the officer is attending for business purposes. For purposes of our Summary Compensation Table, we value the compensatory benefit to the officer at the incremental cost to us of conferring the benefit, which consists of additional catering and fuel expenses. In the example given, the incremental cost would be nominal because the aircraft would have been used to travel to the event, and the basic costs of the trip would have been incurred, whether or not the NEO’s spouse accompanied the officer on the trip. On the occasions when we permit an employee to use the aircraft for personal use, we value the compensation benefit to such employee (including NEOs) at the incremental cost to us of conferring the benefit, which consists of the average weighted fuel expenses, catering expenses, trip-related crew expenses, landing fees and trip-related hangar/parking costs. Since our aircraft are used primarily for business travel, the valuation excludes the fixed costs that do not change based on usage, such as pilots’ compensation and the cost of maintenance. Our valuation of personal use of aircraft as set forth in this Proxy Statement is calculated in accordance with SEC guidance, which may not be the same as valuation under applicable tax regulations. The following table includes each amount representing more than 10% of All Other Compensation paid to each of our NEOs in 2024:

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