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WEYERHAEUSER CO

For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Feb 14, 2025.

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FY2024 · Filed Feb 14, 2025

WY$21.13+0.7%Stored close · as of Nov 9, 2026

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Item 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

Our compensation program is designed to reflect a strong pay-for-performance alignment that will result in superior financial results and create long-term value for shareholders. The Compensation Committee completes a risk assessment of the company’s compensation program on an annual basis and also reviews the program and considers feedback from shareholders to ensure that compensation is appropriately linked to performance against company strategy and is aligned with the interests of our shareholders. Some of our leading executive compensation practices include:

balanced focus on both long-term strategic and financial objectives and shorter-term business objectives, with significant weighting of pay tied to performance-based compensation and a material portion of compensation in the form of equity awards with multi-year vesting;
“double trigger” accelerated vesting of our long-term incentive equity awards upon a change of control;
incentive compensation recovery policy that requires the Compensation Committee to pursue recovery of incentive compensation received by executive officers in the event of a restatement of the company’s financial statements, subject to narrowly defined exceptions and
limited executive perquisites such as relocation-related benefits, security services on an “as needed” basis, financial counseling and annual executive health screenings.

SHARE OWNERSHIP REQUIREMENTS

We have share ownership requirements for our executive officers and directors that require each of them to hold a multiple of his or her base salary (or cash compensation) in shares of Weyerhaeuser stock. The minimum holding requirement is 6x base salary for our chief executive officer, 3x base salary for our senior vice presidents, and 5x annual cash retainer for our non-employee directors. Until the required ownership levels are achieved, executives must retain 75 percent of the net profit shares acquired when restricted stock units (RSUs) and performance share units (PSUs) vest. Net profit shares are shares remaining after payment of taxes upon vesting of the related equity award. A director may sell shares issuable upon vesting of RSUs only for purposes of paying the taxes due upon vesting but must otherwise hold 100 percent of the net shares granted to him or her until the ownership requirement has been satisfied. Our Compensation Committee monitors and confirms that our directors and officers are in compliance with these requirements. Additionally, we have an anti-hedging and trading policy which prohibits our directors, executive officers and employees who report directly to our executive officers from hedging their ownership of the company’s stock. The policy also prohibits directors and executive officers from pledging company stock, engaging in any short sales of company stock or trading company stock on margin.

CODE OF ETHICS

Integrity is a core value at Weyerhaeuser. We have a strong culture of ethics and integrity at every level of our company. Since our founding in 1900, we have consistently been recognized for our ethical business practices, compliance and high standards. In 2024, we were named for the 15 th time as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by Ethisphere Institute, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices. Our Code of Ethics applies to all employees and members of our board, and it is an expression of our commitment and shared responsibility to conduct our business affairs ethically with stakeholders, including employees, communities, customers, suppliers, contractors and shareholders. Our employees also participate in regular compliance and ethics training, role-model and promote ethical behavior, and are instructed on how to communicate concerns of unethical behavior.

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SHAREHOLDER ENGAGEMENT

We believe that maintaining regular and active dialogue with our shareholders is important for effective corporate governance as well as to our commitment to deliver sustainable, long-term value to our shareholders. We engage with our shareholders on a variety of topics throughout the year to ensure we are addressing questions and concerns, to seek input and to provide perspective on our policies and practices. Shareholder feedback is regularly reviewed and considered by the board and its committees and is reflected in adjustments and enhancements to our policies and practices. We remain committed to investing time with our shareholders to maintain transparency and to better understand their views on key issues.

SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS

Shareholder Proxy Access

Our company Bylaws allow eligible shareholders to nominate candidates to the board of directors who are included in the company’s proxy statement and ballot. This process for inclusion of shareholder nominees in the proxy statement is in addition to previously existing Bylaw provisions that allow shareholders to nominate directors to the board without access to the company’s proxy statement.

Shareholders' Right to Call Meetings

Our company Bylaws provide that special meetings of our shareholders may be called by shareholders representing at least 25 percent of the company’s outstanding shares if certain notice and other procedural requirements are followed and if the board determines that the matters of business to be brought before the meeting are appropriate for shareholder action under applicable law.

DISCIPLINED RISK MANAGEMENT

Making the right decisions for our business requires understanding risk. We use disciplined processes to manage our risks, which include, among other areas, environmental, safety, social, legal, operational and public-policy risks so our leaders and employees can make sound and informed decisions. Our enterprise risk management group evaluates the likelihood of various risks and determines the potential magnitude of impact to our company. The analysis is conducted under the guidance of our vice president of risk and chief compliance officer, who reports to our senior vice president and general counsel and also reports to our Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee on matters relating to ethics and compliance and to our full board of directors on matters relating to risk. We also conduct internal audits regularly to ensure compliance with environmental, safety, financial, disclosure and other regulations; voluntary standards; and our own company policies. When noncompliance issues are identified, we develop, implement and track corrective action plans to ensure timely resolution. An independent public accounting firm audits our accounting processes, financial reporting and internal controls on an ongoing basis. We also focus on managing cybersecurity risk through a program that includes information security training, systems testing, testing and audit of our IT controls, and alignment of our program with the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (see further discussion at Item 1C Cybersecurity). We also maintain and regularly update other company policies that guide our business, inform our employees and help manage our identified risks, including the following: Anti-Bribery Policy; Anti-Discrimination, Anti-Harassment and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy; Insider Trading Policy; Related Party Transactions Review and Approval Policy; Anti-Hedging and Anti-Pledging Policy; Chemical Management Policy; Code of Ethics; Environmental Policy; Health and Safety Policy; Human Rights Policy; Product Stewardship Policy; Supplier Code of Ethics; Sustainable Forestry Policy; Threatened and Endangered Species Policy; and Wood Procurement Policy.

PARTICIPATING IN PUBLIC POLICY

Our ethical and transparent involvement in public policy includes coalition and relationship building, advocacy, political contributions and grassroots activities. As active members of our communities, we participate in the political process to help shape policy and legislation affecting our company and industry and do so without regard to the private political preferences of executives. All political contributions are managed by our government affairs team. Public policy and legislative priorities are reviewed annually with senior business leaders, our board of directors and our Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee. We follow both the letter and the spirit of the laws governing lobbying. Our managers receive regular training on current laws and practices, and we work fairly and honestly with public officials at all levels. Some states allow companies to contribute directly to campaigns for state and local offices and for ballot measures. We file these contributions as required at state and local levels. We also sponsor a U.S. Weyerhaeuser Political Action Committee (WPAC), which solicits voluntary contributions from eligible shareholders, employees and our board of directors. WPAC contribution reports are filed with the Federal Election Commission, and we provide a summary of our annual WPAC political donations in the sustainability section of our website.

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