Company: BSX
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000885725-25-000017
Chunk: 125

Company: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 125
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 Analyze internal pay equity in formulating compensation decisions.                                                                    
 Compare practices, levels, and mix of compensation against peer group companies.                                                      
 Engage an independent compensation consultant reporting directly to the Compensation Committee.                                       
 Assess risk of incentive compensation policies and programs.                                                                          |

#### 2025 Proxy Statement105
Proposal 2: Advisory Vote to Approve the Compensation of our Named Executive Officers

| What We Don’t Do |

| Do not provide income tax gross-ups (except on relocation benefits).                                        
 Do not provide any excise tax gross-ups on severance or other payments in the event of a change in control. |     | Do not permit pledging or hedging of the economic value of our common stock by our executives or directors. 
 Do not permit repricing of underwater stock options without stockholder approval.                           |

#### Pay for Performance
We believe our emphasis on at-risk, performance-based incentive compensation — consisting of our ABP awards and long-term equity awards — aligns our executives with our business strategy and the short- and long-term interests of our stockholders, providing “pay for performance” and putting a significant portion of our executives’ pay “at risk.”

A Significant Portion of Our NEOs’ 2024 Target TDC is At-Risk, Performance-Based Compensation

Our Compensation Committee ties a significant portion of the primary elements of our executives’ target TDC to at-risk, performance-based incentive opportunities. For 2024, approxim ately 92.2 % of the target value of the primary elements of TDC for our CEO and approximately 83.1 % of the target value of the pri mary elements of TDC for our other NEOs, as a group, consisted of at-risk, performance-based incentive compensation. For additional details and a breakdown of at-risk, performance-based incentive compensation, please see pages 51 and 56 of the Compensation Discussion & Analysis section of this Proxy Statement .

Accordingly, we ask our stockholders to vote “FOR” the following resolution at the Annual Meeting:

“RESOLVED, that the Company’s stockholders approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the named executive officers, as disclosed in the Company’s Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders pursuant to Item 402 of Regulation S-K, including the Compensation Discussion & Analysis, compensation tables and narrative discussion.”

While the vote is advisory in nature, which means that it is non-binding on us, our Board, and its Compensation Committee, values the opinions of our