ATI INC

The Committee maintains a multi-step process for setting compensation levels and opportunities and validating our pay targets. The table below, and description that follows, explains this process:

Near the end of each year, the Board (including members of the Committee) reviews ATI’s annual and long-term business and strategic plans with management. The Committee reviews the Company’syear-end financial results and, based on its assessment of ATI’s achievement of the predefined financial goals and objectives, determines the extent to which awards with performance measurement periods that concluded at the end of the previous year are payable. The Committee authorizes compensation programs for the year and establishes specific financial performance goals for the performance period or periods applicable to awards under such programs in light of the Board approved business and strategic plans.

The Committee considers which incentive plans, award levels and performance goals would optimize the achievement of ATI’s future business objectives without introducing systemic risk driven by the executive compensation program. The Committee solicits the views of its advisors as to whether the plans under consideration reflect and support achievement of the Company’s short-term and long-term business objectives and strategies. The Committee also approves individual participation levels in the compensation plans for the CEO and our other executive officers and directs executive management to establish participation levels in the plans for other eligible employees within the guidelines prescribed by the Committee. Generally, prospective compensation opportunities under the long-term compensation plans are awarded during the first quarter.