Company: WTFCN
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-031671
Chunk: 90

Company: WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 90
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 January 1, 2024 or who terminated prior to December 31, 2024. In determining the annual total compensation of the median employee, such employee’s compensation was calculated in accordance with Item 402(c)(2)(x) of Regulation S-K, as required pursuant to the SEC executive compensation disclosure rules. This calculation is the same calculation used to determine total compensation for purposes of the 2024 Summary Compensation Table with respect to each of the NEOs.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS PAY VERSUS PERFORMANCE As required by Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K, the Company is providing the following information for “Compensation Actually Paid,” as calculated per SEC disclosure rules, and the Company’s financial performance against specific performance metrics for each of the last five completed calendar years. The table below summarizes “Compensation Actually Paid” to Mr. Wehmer, the Company’s former Principal Executive Officer (“PEO”), “Compensation Actually Paid” to Mr. Crane, the Company’s current PEO, and the average “Compensation Actually Paid” to our NEOs other than Mr. Wehmer and Mr. Crane. In determining the “Compensation Actually Paid,” we are required to make various adjustments to amounts that have been reported in the Summary Compensation Table in previous years as the valuations methods for this section differ from those required in the Summary Compensation Table, primarily as it relates to equity valuations. Under the Summary Compensation Table rules, equity awards are reflected as compensation in the year of grant based on the full grant date fair value, whereas equity awards are reported as “Compensation Actually Paid” during the vesting period and are impacted by changes in the Company’s stock price through the vesting date. Similar to the Summary Compensation Table, “Compensation Actually Paid” includes the value of equity awards as compensation prior to vesting and, thus, such compensation may never be realized by the NEOs if the underlying vesting conditions are not satisfied.

| ​ | ​              | Year(1) | ​ | ​ | ​ | SummaryCompensationTable TotalPEO —Mr. Crane(2)($) |   |                     |   | ​ | ​ | ​ | CompensationActually Paidto PEO —Mr. Crane(3)($) |   |           |   | ​ | ​ | ​ | SummaryCompensationTable TotalPEO —Mr. Wehmer(2)($) |   |           |