Company: COST
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000909832-25-000159
Chunk: 44

Company: COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP /NEW
Filing Date: 2025-12-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 44
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 the relationship among compensation actually paid to our PEO, Former PEO, the average compensation actually paid to our Non-PEO NEOs, and net sales adjusted for changes in foreign currencies for the applicable fiscal years. Refer to Appendix A for a reconciliation of this non-GAAP measure to net sales under GAAP.

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Financial Performance Measures

The following list represents the most important metrics used to link Company performance to compensation actually paid for the most recently completed fiscal year. Only two measures are identified because they are the only measures used by the Company to link executive compensation to Company performance.

• Net Sales Adjusted for Changes in Foreign Currencies

• Income Before Income Taxes Adjusted for Changes in Foreign Currencies

### CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND TRANSACTIONS
Jim Klauer, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Northern Division, has a daughter-in-law who was employed by the Company during fiscal 2025, with annual compensation of $199,259.

Teresa Jones, Executive Vice President, Global Depots and Traffic, has three brothers who were employed by the Company during fiscal 2025: one with annual compensation of $251,480 and a grant of 555 RSUs; one with annual compensation of $156,662 and a grant of 139 RSUs; and one with annual compensation of $141,399 and a grant of 139 RSUs.

W. Richard Wilcox, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Southwest Division, has a son who was employed by the Company during fiscal 2025, with annual compensation of $113,038 and a grant of 20 RSUs.

Richard Galanti, former Chief Financial Officer and former director, has a son employed by a vendor of the Company from which the Company purchased approximately $8.6 million of product during fiscal 2025. Mr. Galanti’s son received approximately $204,282 in related commissions from the vendor.

All related persons employed by the Company listed above participated in benefit plans generally available to employees in comparable positions under similar terms and conditions.

These relationships and related transactions were approved by the Audit Committee. The charter of the Audit Committee requires the Committee to review and approve all related-person transactions that are required to be disclosed under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K. There were no transactions required to be reported in this Proxy Statement since the beginning of fiscal 2025 where this policy did not require review, approval or ratification or where this policy was not followed.

No family members