Company: ACCO
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-046374
Chunk: 44

Company: ACCO BRANDS Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 44
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To identify the median employee, we examined the total cash compensation paid between October 1, 2023 and September 30, 2024, including base salaries, overtime payments, allowances, incentives and commissions paid, to all individuals, excluding our CEO, who were employed by us as of October 1, 2024, as reflected in our payroll records. In accordance with Item 402(u) and instructions thereto, we included all full-time, part-time, temporary and seasonal employees. We selected total cash compensation for all employees as a consistently applied compensation measure because we do not widely distribute long-term incentive awards to employees and because we believe that this measure reasonably reflects the total annual compensation of our employees. For purposes of calculating the total cash compensation of our non-U.S. employees, we converted local currencies to U.S. dollars based on our fiscal year 2024 operating plan exchange rates. We calculated the 2024 annual total compensation for the representative median employee using the same methodology we use for our named executive officers in the 2024 Summary Compensation Table in this Proxy Statement. With respect to the annual total compensation of our CEO, we used the amount reported in the “Total” column of our 2024 Summary Compensation Table in this Proxy Statement. Our Pay Ratio has been calculated using selected assumptions, estimates and adjustments as permitted under Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K, and is a reasonable estimate calculated in a manner consistent with the Regulation. Other companies may use different methodologies, assumptions, estimates and adjustments, and therefore a comparison of our Pay Ratio to that of other companies will be limited in value. Pay Versus Performance In accordance with rules adopted by the SEC pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, we provide the following disclosures regarding the relationship between the executive compensation for our principal executive officers (“PEOs”) and the other named executive officers (the "Non-PEO NEOs") and the Company's performance for the fiscal years listed below. The Compensation and Human Capital Committee did not consider the pay versus performance disclosure below in making its pay decisions for any of the years shown.

#### ACCO BRANDS| 2025 PROXY STATEMENT63
| Year |      Summary 
 Compensation 
  Table Total 
 for PEO 1(1) |      Summary 
 Compensation 
  Table Total 
 for PEO 2(1) |      Compensation 
     Actually Paid 
 to PEO 1(1)(2)(