Company: AVNT
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001122976-25-000019
Chunk: 64

Company: AVIENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 64
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 regarding the modified awards, refer to the 2024 Grants of Plan-Based Awards table of this proxy statement. Mr. Garratt retained his vested equity awards upon his retirement, which were then governed by the standard terms of each award. The incremental fair value of the modified awards is $432,186 for the stock awards and $357,464 for the option awards.

#### Bonus (column (d))
The amounts reported in the “Bonus” column relate to, for 2024, sign-on compensation consisting of a cash payment of $170,000 to Ms. Sanders in connection with her service as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, and for 2023, sign-on compensation consisting of a cash payment of $1,500,000 to Dr. Khandpur in connection with his service as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.

#### Stock Awards (column (e))
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#### EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
The amounts reported in the “Stock Awards” column relate to, for 2024, time-vested stock-settled RSUs granted to the Named Executive Officers in 2024. These awards are described more fully in the “What We Pay and Why: Elements of Compensation” section of this proxy statement.

The amounts reported for 2024 represent the aggregate grant date fair value of those stock awards determined pursuant to FASB ASC Topic 718. Accordingly, this column includes amounts for awards that have not yet vested. For information regarding the assumptions used in determining the fair value of these awards, please refer to Note 13, Share-Based Compensation, in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024. In addition, for Mr. Garratt, the amount reported for 2024 for this column includes the incremental fair value of his modified 2022, 2023 and 2024 RSUs, as further described in a footnote to the table above and in narrative below.

Avient cautions that the amounts reported for these awards may not represent the amounts that the Named Executive Officers will actually realize from these awards. To what extent a Named Executive Officer realizes value will depend on our stock price and continued employment. The value actually realized upon a vesting of RSUs for the Named Executive Officers in 2024 is reflected in the 2024 Option Exercises and Stock Vested table of this proxy statement.

#### Option Awards (