Company: ADP
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000607
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Company: AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING INC
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form: DEF 14A
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Consistent with the stockholders’ advisory vote at our 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, we determined to hold the advisory say-on-pay vote to approve our named executive officer (“NEO”) compensation on an annual basis. Therefore, we are asking our stockholders to approve, on an advisory basis, our named executive officer compensation for fiscal year 2025. Our stockholders will have the opportunity to approve, on an advisory basis, our NEO compensation for fiscal year 2026 at the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The board of directors recommends a vote FORthis resolution because it believes that the policies and practices described in the “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” section beginning on page 40 of this proxy statement are effective in achieving the company’s goals of linking pay to performance and levels of responsibility, encouraging our executive officers to remain focused on both short-term and long-term financial, client satisfaction, transformation, paperless and human capital management (“HCM”) goals

of the company, and aligning the interests of our executive officers with the interests of our stockholders by linking executive performance to stockholder value. At our 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, our stockholders approved the compensation of our fiscal year 2024 NEOs by a vote of approximately 90% in favor.

| Ratification of the Appointment of Auditors (Proposal 3) |

We are asking our stockholders to ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2026. A summary of fees paid to Deloitte & Touche LLP for services provided in fiscal years 2025 and 2024 is provided on page 99 of this proxy statement. The board of directors recommends a vote FORthis resolution.

| Automatic Data Processing, Inc. – Proxy Statement   | | iv |

| 2025 Proxy Statement Summary |

Fiscal Year 2025 Business Highlights Our Strategic Priorities. With a large and growing addressable market, we are focused on our core growth areas and further enhancing our market position by executing on our three strategic priorities:

| Our strategic priorities |                                            |
|                          | Lead with best-in-classHCM technology      |
|                          | Provide unmatchedExpertise and outsourcing |
|                          | Benefit our clients with ourGlobal scale   |

Fiscal year 2025 reflected continued strength, growth and momentum at ADP:

| HIGHLIGHTS                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |     | STOCKHOLDER FRIENDLY ACTIONS                       |
| $20.6 billion