Company: INSP
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-009249
Chunk: 44

Company: Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 44
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 providing overall compensation opportunities that are comparable to market levels. With this in mind, our executive compensation programs are designed to:

| • | attract, motivate, reward, and retain employees at the executive level who contribute to our long-term success; |

| • | link pay to performance; |

| • | effectively align our executives’ interests with those of our stockholders, in part by focusing on long-term equity incentives that correlate with the growth of sustainable long-term value for our stockholders; |

| • | align our performance metrics with our corporate strategy and the achievement of our business objectives; and |

| • | provide compensation packages to our executives that are fair and competitive with the market. |

Executive Compensation Governance Highlights We are committed to having strong governance standards with respect to our compensation programs, procedures, and practices. Our key compensation practices include the following:

| What We Do |     |                                                                                                                                            |     | What We Do Not Do |     |                                                                                                                              |
| ✔          |     | We emphasize performance-based, at-risk compensation.                                                                                      |     | ✘                 |     | We do not provide any compensation-related excise tax gross-ups.                                                             |
| ✔          |     | We deliver rewards that are based on the achievement of long-term objectives and the creation of stockholder value.                        |     | ✘                 |     | We do not provide significant perquisites.                                                                                   |
| ✔          |     | We provide a mix of short-term and long-term incentive compensation to promote executive retention and reward exceptional performance.     |     | ✘                 |     | We do not encourage unnecessary risk-taking as a result of our compensation policies.                                        |
| ✔          |     | We engage an independent compensation consultant to advise our Organization and Compensation Committee and management.                     |     | ✘                 |     | We do not guarantee annual salary increases or bonuses.                                                                      |
| ✔          |     | We consider stockholder input in evaluating the design of our executive compensation and the compensation decisions for each of the NEOs.  |     | ✘                 |     | We do not have contracts that guarantee employment with any executives (all employment is terminable at will).               |
| ✔          |     | We develop a peer group of companies based on industry, revenue, stage, and market capitalization to reference for compensation decisions. |     | ✘                 |     | We prohibit employees and non-employee directors from engaging in hedging and short sale transactions in Company securities. |
| ✔          |     | We