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Proxy Materials
2016 Proxy Statement 45
Summary Compensation Table and Narrative Disclosure
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fiscal 2016, 2015 and 2014. The named executive officers are Carl Bass (President and Chief Executive Officer), R. Scott
Herren (Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer), and the next three most highly compensated individuals who were
serving as executive officers of Autodesk on January 31, 2016, the last day of our most recent fiscal year. For information on
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Salary
Named executive officers are paid a cash-based salary. We did not provide equity or other non-cash items to our named
executive officers as salary compensation during fiscal 2016, 2015 and 2014.
Bonus
This column represents payments made to our named executive officers for amounts that relate to: Autodesk and individual
performance under the Autodesk, Inc. Incentive Performance Plan for fiscal 2016; signing bonuses, as in the case of
Mr. Herren, who received a sign-on bonus paid in two equal $75,000 installments, paid in fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2015; and other
miscellaneous amounts, such as payments made in recognition of years of service as part of an Autodesk company-wide
program.
Stock Awards
Amounts shown in this column do not reflect compensation actually received by our named executive officers. Instead, the
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Financial Statements in our fiscal 2016 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 23, 2016.
Equity and Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation
Non-equity incentive plan compensation represents amounts earned for services performed during the relevant fiscal year
pursuant to our short-term cash incentive plan (EIP) for all executive officers shown. The amounts shown in the Non-Equity
Incentive Plan Compensation column below reflect the total cash amounts awarded. Cash amounts awarded under the EIP are
payable in the first quarter of the following fiscal year.
All Other Compensation
This column represents all other compensation for the relevant fiscal year not reported in the previous columns, such as
payment of relocation and temporary housing expenses, reimbursement of certain tax expenses, authorized spouse travel and
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personal gifts and related tax gross ups. Generally, unless the items included in this category exceed the greater of $25,000 or
10% of the total amount of perquisites received by a given named executive officer, individual perquisites are not separately
identified and quantified.