Company: GWW
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-015730
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Company: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: PRE 14A
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Pay Versus Performance In accordance with rules adopted by the SEC pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, we provide the following disclosure regarding executive compensation for our principal executive officer (“PEO”) and our other NEOs (“Non-PEO NEOs”) and Company performance for the fiscal years listed below. While we are required to identify total Company adjusted ROIC as the Company Selected Measure (“CSM”) in accordance with Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K of the Exchange Act, adjusted ROIC and daily sales growth are the financial measures we consider the two most important in linking performance to compensation actually paid to the NEOs for the 2024 fiscal year to Company performance, as the Company’s overall NEO compensation structure is designed to drive profitable growth leading to shareholder value creation.

| ​ | Year | ​ | ​ | ​ | SummaryCompensationTableTotal forPEO(1) |   |             |              | ​ | ​ | ​ | CompensationActuallyPaid toPEO(1)(2)(3) |   |             |   | ​ | ​ | ​ | AverageSummaryCompensationTableTotal forNon-PEONEOs(1) |   |            |   | ​ | ​ | ​ | AverageCompensationActuallyPaid toNon-PEONEOs(1)(2)(3) |   |            |   | ​ | ​ | ​ | Value of InitialFixed $100InvestmentBased On:(4) |   |      |   |   |   |   |   |   |      |   | ​ | ​ | ​ | NetIncome($MM) |   |        |   | ​ | ​ | ​ | AdjustedROIC(5)CSM |   |       |   | ​ | ​ | ​ | Daily SalesGrowth(5)SupplementalMeasure |   |       |   | ​ |
| ​ |  TSR |   |   |   | ​                                       | ​ |           ​ | PeerGroupTSR |   |   |   | ​                                       | ​ |             |   |   |   |   |                                                        |   |            |   |   |   |   |                                                        |   |            |   |   |   |   |                                                  |