Company: NE-WTA
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-015025
Chunk: 67

Company: Noble Corp plc
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 67
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 under Noble’s defined benefit plans for Mr. Kawaja, who is the only NEO that participates in the Noble Services Company LLC Salaried Employees’ Retirement Plan, which was frozen to new participants in 2004.

| Name           |     | Plan name                          |     | Number of years  
 credited service 
 (#)(1)           |     |      | Present value of    
 accumulated benefit 
 ($)(1) (2)          |     |   |         |     |   | Payments during  
 last fiscal year 
 ($)              |
|:---------------|:----|:-----------------------------------|:----|:-----------------|:----|-----:|:--------------------|:----|:--|--------:|:----|:--|:-----------------|
| Joey M. Kawaja |     | Salaried Employees Retirement Plan |     |                  |     | 18.5 |                     |     | $ | 234,031 |     | — |                  |

(1) Computed as of December 31, 2024, which is the same pension plan measurement date used for financial statement reporting purposes for our audited consolidated financial statements. Mr. Kawaja’s years of credited service under the pension plan were frozen in 2016, when the plan was frozen to future accruals.

(2) For purposes of calculating the amounts in this column, retirement age was assumed to be the normal retirement age of 65, as defined in the Noble Services Company LLC Salaried Employees’ Retirement Plan. A description of the valuation method and all material assumptions applied in quantifying the present value of accumulated benefit is set forth in Note 11 to our audited consolidated financial statements in Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.

Noble Services Company LLC Salaried Employees’ Retirement Plan

Under the Noble Services Company LLC Employees’ Retirement Plan, the normal retirement date is the date that a participant attains the age of 65. The plan covers salaried employees, but excludes employees hired after July 31, 2004. As a result, Mr. Kawaja is the only NEO with a benefit under this plan. The normal retirement pension accrued under the plan is in the form of an annuity that provides for a payment of a level monthly retirement income to the participant for life with certain survivor benefits as defined in the plan.

The benefit under the plan is equal to one percent of the participant’s average monthly compensation multiplied times the number of years of