Company: ABR-PF
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-018236
Chunk: 51

Company: ARBOR REALTY TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 51
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 Company without cause; or (2) by Mr. Kaufman for “good reason” (as defined in the 2024 Agreement), the unvested shares of restricted common stock he held would have become vested and he would have been entitled to the same value described under “Change in Control” above.

#### CEO Pay Ratio
As required by Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Act and Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K, we are required to disclose the ratio of our median employee’s annual total compensation to the annual total compensation of our principal executive officer.

To identify the median employee from our employee population in 2024, we compared the compensation amounts of our employees, excluding the compensation of our CEO, Mr. Kaufman, as reflected in our payroll records and reported to the Internal Revenue Service on Form W-2 for 2024. Since all our employees are located in the United States, we did not make any cost-of-living adjustments in identifying the median employee. The salaries for permanent employees who were hired during 2024 and were working for us as of December 31, 2024 were annualized.

For 2024, the total compensation of our median employee was $103,797, and the annual total compensation of Mr. Kaufman was $12,057,878, which is reported in the “Total” column of our 2024 Summary Compensation Table included in this proxy statement. As a result, Mr. Kaufman’s annual total compensation was 116 times that of the annual total compensation of our median employee.

The pay ratio reported above is a reasonable estimate calculated in a manner consistent with SEC rules based on our internal records and the methodology described above. Since the rules used for identifying the median of the annual total compensation allows a variety of methodologies, application of certain exclusions and reasonable estimates and assumptions, the pay ratio reported by other companies may not be comparable to our pay ratio, as other companies have different employee populations and compensation practices and may have used different methodologies, exclusions, estimates and assumptions in calculating their pay ratios.

#### Pay Versus Performance
The following pay versus performance disclosures are required by Section 953(a) of the Dodd-Frank Act and Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K. Messrs. Kaufman, Elenio, Kilgore, Katz and van der Reis served as our NEOs in 2024. Messrs. Kaufman, Elenio, Caulfield, Katz and van der Reis served as our NEO