Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000883241-25-000008
Chunk: 110

Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 110
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 a change of control of Synopsys.

#### 2025 Proxy Statement93
| PROPOSAL 4 — Advisory Vote to Approve Executive Compensation |

Pay Ratio Disclosure

In accordance with SEC rules, we are providing the following information about the relationship of the annual total compensation of our employees (other than our Chief Executive Officer) to the annual total compensation of our Chief Executive Officer. Due to our executive transition in fiscal 2024, we had two individuals serve in the role of Chief Executive Officer during the fiscal year. We elected to use the annualized compensation of Mr. Ghazi, our current Chief Executive Officer, for purposes of determining the below CEO Pay Ratio.

This disclosure should be considered within the context of our structure and operations. Although our headquarters are located in California, we have employees in approximately 30 countries. As of the end of fiscal 2024, approximately 80% of our employees were based outside of the U.S. Our Compensation Committee has designed our executive compensation program to provide competitive and internally equitable compensation and benefits opportunities for all employees. Our general employee compensation program is designed separately from the executive officer compensation program to be competitive based on an employee’s position and geographic location.

#### CEO Pay Ratio
For fiscal 2024:

• The annual total compensation of our median employee in fiscal 2024 was $93,786, which amount was calculated in accordance with Item 402(c)(2)(x) of Regulation S-K.

• The annual total compensation of Mr. Ghazi was $27,404,261, which amount represents the total compensation reported for our Chief Executive Officer under the “Summary Compensation Table” for fiscal 2024.

• The annual total compensation of Mr. Ghazi excluding the one-time equity grant in connection with Mr. Ghazi's promotion to Chief Executive Officer was $18,935,447 for fiscal 2024.

Based on the above, the ratio of the annual total compensation of our Chief Executive Officer to the annual total compensation of our median employee for fiscal 2024 is estimated to be 292 to 1. This ratio is estimated to be 202 to 1 if Mr. Ghazi's one-time equity grant in connection with his promotion to Chief Executive Officer is excluded.

#### Assumptions and Methodology
We selected November 2, 2024, the last day of fiscal 2024, as the date on which to determine our median employee. We did not exclude any employees when making such determination except for our Chief Executive Officer. For purposes of identifying