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BED BATH & BEYOND PROXY STATEMENT
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NONQUALIFIED DEFERRED COMPENSATION
Effective January 1, 2006, the Company adopted a nonqualified deferred compensation plan for the benefit of employees defined
by the Internal Revenue Service as highly compensated. A certain percentage of an employee’s contributions may be matched by
the Company, subject to certain plan limitations, as more fully described below. The following table provides compensation infor-
mation for the Company’s nonqualified deferred compensation plan for each of the named executive officers for fiscal 2010.
Nonqualified Deferred Compensation for Fiscal 2010
Executive Company Aggregate Aggregate
Contributions Contributions Earnings (Losses) Aggregate Balance at
for Fiscal for Fiscal in Fiscal Withdrawals/ Fiscal Year End
2010
(1) 2010 (2) 2010 Distributions 2010
Name ($) ($) ($) ($) ($)
Warren Eisenberg 275,000 7,350 114,859 — 841,107
Leonard Feinstein 275,000 7,350 114,859 — 841,107
Steven H. Temares 26,000 1,533 14,383 — 128,132
Arthur Stark 10,000 4,853 46,069 313,490 597,031
Eugene A. Castagna 111,346 4,105 47,080 — 435,965
(1) All amounts reported in this column were also reported in this Proxy Statement in the “Salary” column of the Summary
Compensation Table for the applicable named executive officer.
(2) All amounts reported in this column were also reported in this Proxy Statement in the “All Other Compensation” column of the
Summary Compensation Table for the applicable named executive officer.
Under the Company’s nonqualified deferred compensation plan, a participant’s regular earnings may be deferred at the election
of the participant, excluding bonus or incentive compensation, welfare benefits, fringe benefits, noncash remuneration, amounts
realized from the sale of stock acquired under a stock option or grant, and moving expenses.
When a participant elects to make a deferral under the plan, the Company credits the account of the participant with a matching
contribution equal to fifty percent of the deferral, offset dollar for dollar by any matching contribution that the Company makes
to the participant under the Company’s 401(k) plan. The payment of this matching contribution is made upon the conclusion of
the fiscal year. The maximum matching contribution to be made by the Company to a participant between the Company’s non-
qualified deferred compensation plan and the Company’s 401(k) plan cannot exceed the lesser of $7,350 and three percent of a
participant’s eligible compensation.
A participant is fully vested in amounts deferred under the nonqualified deferred compensation plan. A participant has a vested
right in matching contributions made by the Company under the nonqualified deferred compensation plan, depending on the
participant’s years of service with the Company: twenty percent at one to two years of service, forty percent at two to three years
of service, sixty percent at three to four years of service, eighty percent at four to five years of service and one hundred percent
at five or more years of service. As each of the named executive officers has more than five years of service to the Company, they
are each fully vested in the matching contributions made by the Company under the plan.
Amounts in a participant’s account in the nonqualified deferred compensation plan are payable either in a lump sum or substan-
tially equal annual installments over a period of five or ten years, as elected by the participant. Such distributions may be delayed
to a period of six months following a participant’s termination of employment to comply with applicable law.