Company: LIN
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-060925
Chunk: 65

Company: LINDE PLC
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 65
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5,201,375 |
| Sean F. Durbin    |     |               |  12,170 |     |                |  3,681,182 |     |              | 10,210 |     |                |  4,722,636 |
| David P. Strauss  |     |               |   7,545 |     |                |  2,355,134 |     |              |  8,535 |     |                |  3,947,864 |

| (1) | The option exercise value realized for 2024 equals (i) the Nasdaq market price of the Company’s common stock at the time of the option exercise minus the option exercise price, multiplied by (ii) the number of option shares exercised. All amounts reported are before taxes.                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| (2) | These values represent shares acquired pursuant to the vesting and payout in March 2024 of Company PSU and RSU awards that were granted in March 2021. At the achieved performance levels, the PSUs granted in 2021 vested and were settled at 200% of their respective targets. The value of the shares is before taxes and equals the number of shares paid out multiplied by the Nasdaq closing price of the Company’s common stock on the applicable vesting date. |

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Executive Compensation Matters

Executive Compensation Tables

2024 Pensio n Benefits The table below shows certain retirement benefit information under the Company’s Pension Programs and agreements.

|                       |     | Plan Name(1)                        |     | Number of Years of 
 Credited Service   
 (#)                |    |     | Present Value of    
 Accumulated Benefit 
 ($)(2)              |           |     | Payments During  
 Last Fiscal Year 
 ($)              |   |
| Sanjiv Lamba          |     | Linde Pension Obligation            |     |                    | 14 |     |                     | 5,029,978 |     |                  | — |
|                       |     | Linde U.S. Pension Plan             |     |                    |  3 |     |                     |    39,000 |     |                  | — |
|                       |     | Supplemental Retirement Income Plan |     |                    |  3 |     |                     |   432,000 |     |                  | — |
| Matthew J. White      |     | Linde U.S. Pension Plan             |     |                    |