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Cash Compensation
All non-employee directors receive an annual cash retainer for Board service and additional cash retainers
for serving as a committee chair. Directors do not receive meeting fees in addition to the retainers. The cash
retainers are payable in two equal installments in January and July of each year. The payments of the retainers for
each six-month period are not subject to refund. The table below sets forth the cash retainers for 2011:
Annual Retainer $105,000
Annual Chair Retainers $100,000 for Non-Executive Chairman
$25,000 for Audit Committee Chair
$20,000 for MD&C Committee Chair
$15,000 for Nominating and Governance Committee Chair
Other Annual Retainers $10,000 for Special Committee
The table below shows the aggregate cash paid, and stock awards issued, to the non-employee directors in
2011 in accordance with the descriptions set forth above:
Name
Fees Earned
or Paid in
Cash ($)
Stock
Awards
($)(1)
Total
($)
Bradbury H. Anderson .................................. 45,000 56,000 101,000
Pastora San Juan Cafferty ............................... 112,500 130,000 242,500
Frank M. Clark, Jr. ..................................... 115,000 130,000 245,000
Patrick W. Gross ...................................... 135,000 130,000 265,000
John C. Pope. ......................................... 205,000 230,000 435,000
W. Robert Reum ....................................... 115,000 130,000 245,000
Steven G. Rothmeier ................................... 105,000 130,000 235,000
Thomas H. Weidemeyer ................................. 117,500 130,000 247,500
(1) Amounts in this column represent the grant date fair value of stock awards granted in 2011, in accordance
with Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718.
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