Company: GWW
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-021496
Chunk: 97

Company: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 97
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 the following countries: Canada (1,775), Japan (2,300), Mexico (865), Panama (821), United Kingdom (1,338) and United States (18,968). • Excluded under the de minimis exemption approximately 3.39% of our global workforce, or approximately 916 employees as follows: China (93), Czech Republic (11), Hungary (15), India (402), Indonesia (137), Ireland (28), Malaysia (14), Poland (14), Portugal (1), Romania (1), South Africa (38), South Korea (143), Thailand (16) and United Arab Emirates (3). • Applied a consistent compensation measure of “base pay” earned during the period from January 1, 2023 to September 30, 2023, rather than summary compensation table (“SCT”) total compensation for all of 2023. • Annualized base pay for those employees who started work during 2023. The identified median employee is a full-time, U.S.-based employee. • Determined the above-mentioned median employee’s full year’s compensation based on the compensation elements required for inclusion in the SCT, with the exception of incorporating healthcare benefits in total compensation as discussed previously in this section. The other components of our compensation programs for NEOs are substantially similar to those available for most of our other employees. This includes the same health and welfare benefits and the same performance-based retirement profit sharing contribution methodology that is applied to the U.S.-based employees who are retirement profit sharing participants. • Note that as of December 31, 2023, Grainger had more than 26,000 employees, of whom approximately 23,200 were full-time and 2,900 were part-time or temporary.

| ​ | CORPORATEGOVERNANCE | ​ | ​ | PROPOSAL 1:ELECTION OFDIRECTORS | ​ | ​ | PROPOSAL 2:RATIFY THEINDEPENDENTAUDITOR | ​ | ​ | EXECUTIVECOMPENSATION | ​ | ​ | PROPOSAL 3:SAY ON PAY | ​ | ​ | PROPOSAL 4: APPROVALAND ADOPTION | ​ | ​ | QUESTIONS ANDANSWERS | ​ | ​ | APPENDICES | ​ |

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Pay Versus Performance In accordance with rules adopted by the SEC pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act of