Company: NE-WTA
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-015025
Chunk: 73

Company: Noble Corp plc
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 73
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 occurred and for which actual performance can be determined or (b) where an interim performance period has not occurred and for which actual performance cannot be determined, at target. All PVRSUs are shown vesting at target level for purposes of this disclosure.

#### 542025 Proxy Statement |Noble Corporation plc

#### Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End
CEO Pay Ratio

For 2024, the CEO to median employee pay ratio was 109:1. We calculated the CEO pay ratio in accordance with Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K. In accordance with Item 402(u), we utilized the same median employee for 2023 to calculate the CEO pay ratio for 2024, after determining that there had been no change in our employee population or employee compensation arrangements that we believe would significantly impact the pay ratio disclosure.

To identify the median of the annual total compensation of all the Company’s employees, as well as to determine the annual total compensation of the “median employee,” the methodology and the material assumptions, adjustments, and estimates that were used were as follows:

• We determined that, as of October 1, 2023, our employee population consisted of approximately 3,754 individuals globally. Our median employee was identified based on our worldwide employee population but excluding certain non-US employees as permitted under SEC’s 5% “de minimis exemption.” Pursuant to the exemption, we have excluded thirty (30) employees in Singapore, twenty-three (23) employees in Azerbaijan, twenty-two (22) employees in Australia, twenty-one (21) employees in Mexico, twenty (20) employees in UK, six (6) employees in Guyana, four (4) employees in Brazil, three (3) employees in Netherlands, three (3) employees in Switzerland, three (3) employees in Dubai, two (2) employees in Cayman, two (2) employees in Labuan, two (2) employees in Luxembourg, two (2) employees in Malaysia, one (1) employee in Saudi Arabia and one (1) employee in Nigeria. After these exclusions, our employee population used in calculating the “median employee” was 3,609.

• Our median employee was identified based on our worldwide employee population (subject to the above exclusions), without regard to their location, compensation arrangements, or whether such employees were full-time, part-time, seasonal or temporary workers.

• We annualized the