Company: AVNT
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001122976-25-000019
Chunk: 82

Company: AVIENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 82
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) reward employees for generating consistent improvement in Company performance; (2) align compensation with the interests of our shareholders with the ultimate goal of improving long-term shareholder value; and (3) attract, motivate and retain talented executives.

More specifically, we design executive compensation to be linked to Company operating performance (including results against both our long-term and short-term growth targets) and return to shareholders over time. The following Tabular List provides what we believe represent the most important financial performance measures we used to link compensation for our Principal Executive Officer (“PEO“) and non-PEO Named Executive Officers for fiscal 2024 to our performance:

| Tabular List                       |     |                                          |     |                             |
| Financial Performance Measures     |     |                                          |     | Adjusted Earnings per Share |
|                                    |     | Company Stock Price                      |     |                             |
|                                    |     | Adjusted Operating Income                |     |                             |
|                                    |     | Working Capital as a Percentage of Sales |     |                             |
| Non-Financial Performance Measures |     |                                          |     | Sustainability Metrics      |

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#### EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
In our long-term incentive program, we tie three-year achievement of cash settled performance units to adjusted EPS and therefore, our company selected measure for purposes of this pay for performance disclosure is annual adjusted EPS, and we have included it in the Pay Versus Performance (“PVP”) Table below.

The PVP Table provides information about compensation, including “compensation actually paid” (or “CAP”), for our Named Executive Officers serving during each Covered Year, as well as results for the following external financial metrics during those same Covered Years: our total shareholder return (“TSR”) results; Peer Group (as defined below) TSR results; and GAAP net income results. The PVP Table also contains information on the relationship between Named Executive Officer pay and our Company-selected financial performance measure for the PVP Table, adjusted EPS. For 2024, we view annual adjusted EPS to be the most important metric for implementation of our pay for performance philosophy.

| PAY VERSUS PERFORMANCE(1) |     |                                                        |     |                          |     |                                                 |     |                   |     |                                                        |     |                                                 |     |                                        |     |        |     |                  |     |                   |
| Year                      
 (a)                       |     | Summary Compensation Table (“SCT”)