Exhibit 10.1
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Deferred Compensation Plan
Effective December 2,
2006
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1
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Definitions
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ARTICLE 2
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Selection, Enrollment, Eligibility
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2.1
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Selection by Committee
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2.2
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Enrollment and Eligibility Requirements;
Commencement of Participation
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2.23
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Termination of a Participant’s
Eligibility
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ARTICLE 3
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Deferral Commitments/Company Contribution
Amounts/Company Restoration Matching Amounts
/Vesting/Crediting/Taxes
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3.1
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Minimum Deferrals
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3.2
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Maximum Deferral
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3.3
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Election to Defer; Effect of Election
Form
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3.4
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Withholding and Crediting of Annual Deferral
Amounts
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10
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3.5
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Company Contribution Amount
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10
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3.6
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Company Restoration Matching Amount
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3.7
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Crediting of Amounts after Benefit
Distribution
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3.8
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Vesting
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3.9
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Crediting/Debiting of Account
Balances
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3.10
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FICA and Other Taxes
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ARTICLE 4
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Scheduled Distribution; Unforeseeable Financial
Emergencies
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4.1
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Scheduled Distribution
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4.2
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Postponing Scheduled Distributions
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4.3
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Other Benefits Take Precedence Over Scheduled
Distributions
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4.4
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Withdrawal Payout/Suspensions for Unforeseeable
Financial Emergencies
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ARTICLE 5
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Change in Control Benefit
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5.1
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Change in Control Benefit
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5.2
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Payment of Change in Control Benefit
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ARTICLE 6
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Retirement Benefit
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6.1
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Retirement Benefit
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6.2
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Payment of Retirement Benefit
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ARTICLE 7
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Termination Benefit
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7.1
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Termination Benefit
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7.2
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Payment of Termination Benefit
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ARTICLE 8
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Disability Benefit
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8.1
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Disability Benefit
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8.2
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Payment of Disability Benefit
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ARTICLE 9
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Death Benefit
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9.1
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Death Benefit
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9.2
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Payment of Death Benefit
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ARTICLE 10
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Beneficiary Designation
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10.1
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Beneficiary
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10.2
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Beneficiary Designation; Change; Spousal
Consent
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10.3
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Acknowledgement
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10.4
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No Beneficiary Designation
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10.5
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Doubt as to Beneficiary
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10.6
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Discharge of Obligations
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ARTICLE 11
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Leave of Absence
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11.1
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Paid Leave of Absence
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11.2
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Unpaid Leave of Absence
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11.3
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Leaves Resulting in Separation from
Service
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ARTICLE 12
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Termination of Plan, Amendment or
Modification
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12.1
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Termination of Plan
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12.2
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Amendment
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12.3
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Plan Agreement
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12.4
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Effect of Payment
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ARTICLE 13
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Administration
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13.1
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Committee Duties
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13.2
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Administration Upon Change in Control
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13.3
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Agents
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13.4
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Binding Effect of Decisions
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13.5
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Indemnity of Committee
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13.6
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Employer Information
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ARTICLE 14
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Other Benefits and Agreements
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14.1
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Coordination with Other Benefits
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ARTICLE 15
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Claims Procedures
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15.1
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Presentation of Claim
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15.2
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Notification of Decision
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15.3
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Review of a Denied Claim
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15.4
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Decision on Review
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15.5
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Arbitration/Interest on Unpaid
Amounts/Controlling Law
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ARTICLE 16
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Trust
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16.1
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Establishment of the Trust
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16.2
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Interrelationship of the Plan and the
Trust
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16.3
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Distributions From the Trust
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ARTICLE 17
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Miscellaneous
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17.1
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Status of Plan
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17.2
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Unsecured General Creditor
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17.3
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Employer’s Liability
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17.4
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Nonassignability
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17.5
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Not a Contract of Employment
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17.6
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Furnishing Information
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17.7
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Terms
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17.8
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Captions
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17.9
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Governing Law
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17.10
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Notice
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17.11
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Successors
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17.12
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Spouse’s Interest
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17.13
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Validity
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17.14
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Incompetent
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17.15
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Court Order
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17.16
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Distribution in the Event of Income Inclusion
Under 409A
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17.17
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Deduction Limitation on Benefit
Payments
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17.18
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Insurance
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iii
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Deferred Compensation Plan
Master Plan Document
ADOBE SYSTEMS
INCORPORATED
DEFERRED COMPENSATION
PLAN
Effective December 2,
2006
Purpose
The purpose of this Plan is to
provide specified benefits to Directors and a select group of
management or highly compensated Employees who contribute
materially to the continued growth, development and future business
success of Adobe Systems Incorporated, a Delaware corporation, and
its subsidiaries, if any, that sponsor this Plan. This Plan
shall be unfunded for tax purposes and for purposes of Title I of
ERISA.
ARTICLE 1
Definitions
For the purposes of this Plan,
unless otherwise clearly apparent from the context, the following
phrases or terms shall have the following indicated
meanings:
1.1
“Account Balance” shall
mean, with respect to a Participant, an entry on the records of the
Employer equal to the sum of the Participant’s Annual
Accounts. The Account Balance shall be a bookkeeping entry
only and shall be utilized solely as a device for the measurement
and determination of the amounts to be paid to a Participant, or
his or her designated Beneficiary, pursuant to this
Plan.
1.2
“Annual Account” shall
mean, with respect to a Participant, an entry on the records of the
Employer equal to the following amount: (i) the sum of the
Participant’s Annual Deferral Amount, Company Contribution
Amount and Company Restoration Matching Amount for any one Plan
Year, plus (ii) amounts credited or debited to such amounts
pursuant to this Plan, less (iii) all distributions made to the
Participant or his or her Beneficiary pursuant to this Plan that
relate to the Annual Account for such Plan Year. The Annual
Account shall be a bookkeeping entry only and shall be utilized
solely as a device for the measurement and determination of the
amounts to be paid to a Participant, or his or her designated
Beneficiary, pursuant to this Plan.
1.3
“Annual Deferral Amount”
shall mean that portion of a Participant’s Base Salary,
Bonus, Commissions, Performance Based Restricted Stock Units, and
Director Fees that a Participant defers in accordance with
Article 3 for any one Plan Year, without regard to whether
such amounts are withheld and credited during such Plan Year.
In the event of a Participant’s Retirement, Disability, death
or Termination of Employment prior to the end of a Plan Year, such
year’s Annual Deferral Amount shall be the actual amount
withheld prior to such event.
1.4
“Annual Installment
Method” shall be an annual installment payment over the
number of years selected by the Participant in accordance with this
Plan, calculated as follows: (i) for the first annual installment,
the vested portion of each Annual Account shall be calculated as of
the close of business on or around the Participant’s Benefit
Distribution Date, as determined by the Committee in its sole
discretion, and (ii) for remaining annual installments, the vested
portion of each applicable Annual Account shall be calculated on
every anniversary of such calculation date, as applicable.
Each annual installment shall be calculated by multiplying this
balance by a
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fraction, the numerator of which is
one and the denominator of which is the remaining number of annual
payments due to the Participant. By way of example, if the
Participant elects a ten year Annual Installment Method as the form
of Retirement Benefit for an Annual Account, the first payment
shall be 1/10 of the vested balance of such Annual Account,
calculated as described in this definition. The following
year, the payment shall be 1/9 of the vested balance of such Annual
Account, calculated as described in this definition.
1.5
“Base Salary” shall mean
the annual cash compensation from an Employer relating to services
performed during any calendar year. It shall be limited to
base pay earned during any calendar year and shall exclude:
Commissions; distributions from nonqualified deferred compensation
plans; bonuses; overtime; fringe benefits; stock options; employee
stock purchase plan benefits; lump sum cash payout of paid time off
in the case of Participants incurring a separation from service on
account of Termination of Employment, Retirement, Disability, or
death; relocation expenses; incentive payments; non-monetary
awards; Director Fees and other fees; and automobile and other
allowances paid to a Participant for employment services rendered
(whether or not such allowances are included in the
Employee’s gross income). Base Salary shall be
calculated before reduction for compensation voluntarily deferred
or contributed by the Participant and not otherwise included in the
Participant’s income because of Code Sections 125, 402(e)(3),
402(h), or 403(b) pursuant to plans established by any Employer;
provided, however, that all such amounts will be included in
compensation only to the extent that had there been no such plan,
the amount would have been payable in cash to the Employee.
Base Salary shall be reduced by Participant contributions under
this Plan.
1.6
“Beneficiary” shall mean
one or more persons, trusts, estates or other entities, designated
in accordance with Article 10, that are entitled to receive
benefits under this Plan upon the death of a
Participant.
1.7
“Beneficiary Designation
Form” shall mean the form established from time to time by
the Committee that a Participant completes, signs and returns to
the Committee to designate one or more Beneficiaries.
1.8
“Benefit Distribution
Date” shall mean a date that triggers distribution of a
Participant’s vested benefits. A Benefit Distribution
Date for a Participant shall be determined upon the occurrence of
any one of the following:
(a)
If the Participant Retires, the
Benefit Distribution Date for his or her vested Account Balance
shall be (i) the last day of the six-month period immediately
following the date on which the Participant Retires if the
Participant is a Key Employee, and (ii) for all other Participants,
the date on which the Participant Retires ; provided,
however, in the event the Participant changes the Retirement
Benefit election for one or more Annual Accounts in accordance with
Section 6.2(b), the Benefit Distribution Date for such Annual
Account(s) shall be postponed in accordance with such Section
6.2(b); or
(b)
If the Participant experiences a
Termination of Employment, the Benefit Distribution Date for his or
her vested Account Balance shall be (i) the last day of the
six-month period immediately following the date on which the
Participant experiences a Termination of Employment if the
Participant is a Key Employee, and (ii) for all other
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Participants, the date on which the
Participant experiences a Termination of Employment; or
(c)
If the Participant dies prior to the
complete distribution of his or her vested Account Balance, the
Participant’s Benefit Distribution Date shall be the date on
which the Committee is provided with proof that is satisfactory to
the Committee of the Participant’s death; or
(d)
If the Participant becomes Disabled,
the Participant’s Benefit Distribution Date shall be the date
on which it is determined that the Participant has become Disabled;
or
(e)
If (i) a Change in Control occurs
with respect to a Participant prior to the Participant’s
Termination of Employment, Retirement, death or Disability, and
(ii) the Participant has elected to receive a Change in Control
Benefit as set forth in Article 5, the Participant’s Benefit
Distribution Date shall be the date on which the Change in Control
occurs, as determined by the Committee in its sole
discretion.
1.9
“Board” shall mean the
board of directors of the Company.
1.10
“Bonus” shall mean any
compensation, in addition to Base Salary and Commissions from an
Employer, earned by a Participant for services rendered during an
Employer’s fiscal year or such other period provided under
any Employer’s Annual Incentive Plan, Profit Sharing Plan, or
any other cash incentive arrangement designated by the Committee,
as further described on an Election Form approved by the Committee
in its sole discretion.
1.11
“Change in Control”
shall mean any “change in control event” as defined in
accordance with Treasury guidance and Regulations related to Code
Section 409A. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the Committee
may determine that the definition of Change in Control for purposes
of this Plan shall be more restrictive than the definition
applicable under Section 409A, for example, by providing that sales
of subsidiaries of the Company shall not be taken into account in
determining whether there has been a Change in Control.
1.12
“Change in Control
Benefit” shall have the meaning set forth in Article
5.
1.13
“Claimant” shall have
the meaning set forth in Section 15.1.
1.14
“Code” shall mean the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as it may be amended from time to
time.
1.15
“Commissions” shall mean
the commissions otherwise payable to a Participant under an
Employer sales incentive plan absent a deferral under this
Plan.
1.16
“Committee” shall mean
the committee described in Article 13.
1.17
“Company” shall mean
Adobe Systems Incorporated, a Delaware corporation, and any
successor to all or substantially all of the Company’s assets
or business.
1.18
“Company Contribution
Amount” shall mean, for any one Plan Year, the amount
determined in accordance with Section 3.5.
1.19
“Company Restoration Matching
Amount” shall mean, for any one Plan Year, the amount
determined in accordance with Section 3.6.
1.20
“Death Benefit” shall
mean the benefit set forth in Article 9.
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1.21
“Director” shall mean
any member of the Board.
1.22
“Director Fees” shall
mean the annual fees earned by a Director, including retainer fees
and meeting fees, as compensation for serving on the
Board.
1.23
“Disability” or
“Disabled” shall mean that a Participant is (i) unable
to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any
medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be
expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a
continuous period of not less than 12 months, or (ii) by reason of
any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can
be expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a
continuous period of not less than 12 months, receiving income
replacement benefits for a period of not less than 3 months under
an accident or health plan covering employees of the
Participant’s Employer.
1.24
“Disability Benefit”
shall mean the benefit set forth in Article 8.
1.25
“Election Form” shall
mean the form, which may be in electronic format, established from
time to time by the Committee that a Participant completes, signs
and returns to the Committee to make an election under the
Plan.
1.26
“Employee” shall mean a
person who is an employee of any Employer.
1.27
“Employer(s)” shall mean
the Company and/or any of its subsidiaries (now in existence or
hereafter formed or acquired) that have been selected by the Board
to participate in the Plan and have adopted the Plan as a
sponsor.
1.28
“ERISA” shall mean the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as it may be
amended from time to time.
1.29
“First Plan Year” shall
mean the period beginning January 1, 2007 and ending December 31,
2007; provided that, the Committee may determine, in its
discretion, an earlier beginning date for the First Plan
Year.
1.30
“401(k) Plan” shall
mean, with respect to an Employer, a plan qualified under Code
Section 401(a) that contains a cash or deferral arrangement
described in Code Section 401(k), adopted by the Employer, as it
may be amended from time to time, or any successor
thereto.
1.31
“Key Employee” shall
mean any Participant who is a “key employee” (as
defined in Code Section 416(i) without regard to paragraph (5)
thereof) of any Employer which is a corporation whose stock is
publicly traded on an established securities market or otherwise,
as determined by the Committee in accordance with Code Section 409A
and related Treasury guidance and Regulations.
1.32
“Participant” shall mean
any Employee or Director (i) who is selected to participate in
the Plan, (ii) who submits an executed Plan Agreement,
Election Form and Beneficiary Designation Form, which are accepted
by the Committee, and (iii) whose Plan Agreement has not
terminated.
1.33
“Performance Based Restricted
Stock Units” shall mean the restricted stock units awarded to
selected Participants, which units shall be settled by the delivery
of Company stock unless deferral of payout is made pursuant to this
Plan.
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1.34
“Plan” shall mean the
Adobe Systems Incorporated Deferred Compensation Plan, which shall
be evidenced by this instrument and by each Plan Agreement, as they
may be amended from time to time.
1.35
“Plan Agreement” shall
mean a written agreement, as may be amended from time to time,
which is entered into by and between an Employer and a
Participant. Each Plan Agreement executed by a Participant
and the Participant’s Employer shall provide for the entire
benefit to which such Participant is entitled under the Plan;
should there be more than one Plan Agreement, the Plan Agreement
bearing the latest date of acceptance by the Employer shall
supersede all previous Plan Agreements in their entirety and shall
govern such entitlement. The terms of any Plan Agreement may
be different for any Participant, and any Plan Agreement may
provide additional benefits not set forth in the Plan or limit the
benefits otherwise provided under the Plan; provided, however, that
any such additional benefits or benefit limitations must be agreed
to by the Employer, the Participant, and the Company.
1.36
“Plan Year” shall mean a
period beginning on January 1 of each calendar year and continuing
through December 31 of such calendar year.
1.37
“Retirement”,
“Retire(s)” or “Retired” shall mean (1)
with respect to an Employee, separation from service with all
Employers for any reason other than a leave of absence, death or
Disability, as determined in accordance with Code Section 409A and
related Treasury guidance and Regulations, on or after the
attainment of age 55 with ten Years of Service; and (2) with
respect to a Director who is not then an Employee, separation from
service as a Director with all Employers.
1.38
“Retirement Benefit”
shall mean the benefit set forth in Article 6.
1.39
“Scheduled Distribution”
shall mean the distribution set forth in Section 4.1.
1.40
“Terminate the Plan”,
“Termination of the Plan” shall mean a determination
that (i) all Participants (or all Participants of one or
more Employers) shall no longer be eligible to participate in the
Plan, (ii) all deferral elections for such Participants shall
terminate, and (iii) such Participants shall no longer be eligible
to receive Employer contributions under this Plan.
1.41
“Termination Benefit”
shall mean the benefit set forth in Article 7.
1.42
“Termination of
Employment” shall mean the separation from service with all
Employers, voluntarily or involuntarily, for any reason other
than Retirement, Disability, death or an authorized leave of
absence, as determined in accordance with Code Section 409A and
related Treasury guidance and Regulations. If a Participant
is both an Employee and a Director, a Termination of Employment
shall occur only upon the termination of the last position
held.
1.43
“Trust” shall mean one
or more trusts established by the Company in accordance with
Article 16.
1.44
“Unforeseeable Financial
Emergency” shall mean a severe financial hardship of the
Participant or Beneficiary resulting from an illness or accident of
the Participant or Beneficiary, the Participant or
Beneficiary’s spouse or the Participant or
Beneficiary’s dependent (as defined in section 152(a) of the
Code)); loss of the Participant’s or Beneficiary’s
property due to casualty (including the need to rebuild a home
following damage to a home not otherwise covered by insurance, for
example, as a result of a natural disaster); or other similar
extraordinary and unforeseeable circumstance arising as a result of
events beyond the control of the Participant or
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Beneficiary. The determination
of whether an “Unforeseeable Financial Emergency”
exists shall be determined in the sole discretion of the
Committee.
1.45
“Years of Service” shall
mean the total number of full years in which a Participant has been
employed by one or more Employers. For purposes of this
definition, a year of employment shall be a 365 day period (or 366
day period in the case of a leap year) that, for the first year of
employment, commences on the Employee’s date of hiring and
that, for any subsequent year, commences on an anniversary of that
hiring date. The Committee shall make a determination as to
whether any partial year of employment shall be counted as a Year
of Service. The Committee, in its complete discretion, may
determine that, in addition to employment described in the
preceding two sentences, employment may be counted toward the
computation of Years of Service if it is either (a) employment with
a subsidiary that is not an Employer or (2) employment with a
company that has been in whole or part acquired by the Company or a
subsidiary of the Company through merger, purchase of assets, or
other form of reorganization.
ARTICLE 2
Selection, Enrollment, Eligibility
2.1
Selection by
Committee .
Participation in the Plan shall be limited to Directors and, as
determined by the Committee in its sole discretion, a select group
of management or highly compensated Employees. From that
group, the Committee shall select, in its sole discretion, those
individuals who may actually participate in this Plan.
2.2
Enrollment and Eligibility
Requirements; Commencement of Participation
.
(a)
As a condition to participation,
each Director or selected Employee who is eligible to participate
in the Plan effective as of the first day of a Plan Year shall
complete, execute and return to the Committee a Plan Agreement, an
Election Form and a Beneficiary Designation Form, prior to the
first day of such Plan Year, or such other earlier deadline (such
as prior to the first day of the Company’s fiscal year) as
may be established by the Committee in its sole discretion.
In addition, the Committee shall establish from time to time such
other enrollment requirements as it determines, in its sole
discretion, are necessary. With respect to the First Plan
Year, each Director or selected Employee must complete these
requirements within 30 days of the date on which such Director or
Employee becomes eligible to participate in the Plan, or within
such other earlier deadline as may be established by the Committee,
in its sole discretion, in order to participate for that
Plan. Except as provided in Section 2.2(b) below, with
respect to any Plan Year after the First Plan Year, each Director
or selected Employee must complete these requirements prior to the
first day of such Plan Year, or such other earlier deadline (such
as prior to the first day of the Company’s fiscal year) as
may be established by the Committee in its sole
discretion.
(b)
A Director or selected Employee who
first becomes eligible to participate in this Plan after the first
day of a Plan Year must complete these requirements within 30 days
after he or she first becomes eligible to participate in the Plan,
or within such other earlier deadline as may be established by the
Committee, in its sole discretion, in order to participate for that
Plan Year. In such event, such person’s participation
in this Plan shall
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not commence earlier than the date
determined by the Committee pursuant to Section 2.2(c) and such
person shall not be permitted to defer under this Plan any portion
of his or her Base Salary, Bonus and/or Director Fees that are paid
with respect to services performed prior to his or her
participation commencement date, except to the extent permissible
under Code Section 409A and related Treasury guidance or
Regulations.
(c)
Each Director or selected Employee
who is eligible to participate in the Plan shall commence
participation in the Plan on the date that the Committee
determines, in its sole discretion, that the Director or Employee
has met all enrollment requirements set forth in this Plan and
required by the Committee, including returning all required
documents to the Committee within the specified time period.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Committee shall process such
Participant’s deferral election as soon as administratively
practicable after such deferral election is submitted to and
accepted by the Committee.
(d)
If a Director or an Employee fails
to meet all requirements contained in this Section 2.2 within the
period required, that Director or Employee shall not be eligible to
participate in the Plan during such Plan Year.
(e)
If, pursuant to Section 3.3(c), the
Committee determines that an election may be made to defer the
payment of performance-based compensation no later than six months
before the end of the performance service period, the Committee may
adjust the deadline for the submission of enrollment forms to
reflect its determination. In particular, the Committee may
determine that the enrollment deadlines with respect to the Annual
Incentive Plan shall be measured with respect to the date ending
six months before the end of the Company’s fiscal year and
that the timing deadlines with respect to the submission of forms
with respect to the deferral of compensation under the Annual
Incentive Plan shall be measured solely with respect to the date
ending six months before the end of the Company’s fiscal
year.
2.3
Termination of a
Participant’s Eligibility . If the Committee determines that
an Employee Participant no longer qualifies as a member of a select
group of management or highly compensated employees, as membership
in such group is determined in accordance with Sections 201(2),
301(a)(3) and 401(a)(1) of ERISA, or that the inclusion of
Directors in this Plan could jeopardize the status of this Plan as
a plan intended to be “unfunded” and “maintained
by an employer primarily for the purpose of providing deferred
compensation for a select group of management or highly compensated
employees” within the meaning of ERISA Sections 201(2),
301(a)(3) and 401(a)(1), the Committee shall have the right, in its
sole discretion, to (i) terminate any deferral election the
Participant has made for the remainder of the Plan Year in which
the Committee makes such determination, (ii) prevent the
Participant from making future deferral elections, and/or (iii)
take further action that the Committee deems appropriate.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event of a Termination of the
Plan, the termination of the affected Participant’s
eligibility for participation in the Plan shall not be governed by
this Section 2.3, but rather shall be governed by Section
12.1. In the event that a Participant is no longer eligible
to defer compensation under this Plan, the Participant’s
Account Balance shall continue to be governed by the terms of this
Plan until such time as the Participant’s Account Balance is
paid in accordance with the terms of this Plan.
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ARTICLE 3
Deferral Commitments/Company Contribution
Amounts/
Company Restoration Matching
Amounts/ Vesting/Crediting/Taxes
3.1
Minimum
Deferrals .
(a)
Annual Deferral
Amount . For
each Plan Year, a Participant may elect to defer, as his or her
Annual Deferral Amount, Base Salary, Commissions, Bonus,
Performance Based Restricted Stock Units, and/or Director Fees in
the following minimum amounts for each deferral elected:
|
Deferral
|
|
Minimum Amount
|
|
Base Salary
|
|
5%
|
|
Commissions
|
|
5%
|
|
Bonus
|
|
5% (in the case of the Annual Incentive Plan,
the Participant may elect to defer amounts in excess of a specified
dollar amount)
|
|
Performance Based Restricted Stock
Units
|
|
5%
|
|
Director Fees
|
|
5%
|
In addition to the minimum amounts
set forth above, the Committee may determine in its discretion that
elections to defer Base Salary, Commissions, Performance Based
Restricted Units, or Bonuses shall only be effective to the extent
that a specified minimum dollar amount of Base Salary, Commissions,
Performance Based Restricted Stock Units, or Bonus is expected to
be deferred; for example, the Committee may determine that an
election to defer a portion of a Participant’s Bonus under
the Annual Incentive Plan shall only be effective if a minimum
amount, such as $2000, is expected to be deferred. If the Committee
determines, in its sole discretion, prior to the beginning of a
Plan Year that a Participant has made an election for less than the
stated minimum amounts, or if no election is made, the amount
deferred shall be zero. If the Committee determines, in its
sole discretion, at any time after the beginning of a Plan Year
that a Participant has deferred less than the stated minimum
amounts for that Plan Year, any amount credited to the
Participant’s applicable Annual Account as the Annual
Deferral Amount for that Plan Year shall be distributed to the
Participant within 60 days after the last day of the Plan Year in
which the Committee determination was made.
(b)
Participation After
Commencement of Plan Year . Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a
Participant first becomes a Participant after the first day of a
Plan Year, unless the Committee establishes different proration
rules, any minimum Annual Deferral Amount shall be an amount equal
to any minimum established by the Plan or the Committee multiplied
by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of complete
months remaining in the Plan Year and the denominator of which
is 12.
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3.2
Maximum
Deferral .
(a)
Annual Deferral
Amount . For
each Plan Year, a Participant may elect to defer, as his or her
Annual Deferral Amount, Base Salary, Commissions, Bonus,
Performance Based Restricted Stock Units, and/or Director Fees up
to the following maximum percentages for each deferral elected,
provided that, if necessary for the purpose of allowing enough
remaining undeferred compensation to fund any necessary
withholdings for taxes or benefits, the Committee may, in its sole
discretion, establish lesser amounts for one or more classes of
Participants:
|
Deferral
|
|
Maximum Percentage
|
|
|
Base Salary
|
|
75
|
%
|
|
Commissions
|
|
100
|
%
|
|
Bonus
|
|
100
|
%
|
|
Performance Based Restricted Stock
Units
|
|
100
|
%
|
|
Director Fees
|
|
100
|
%
|
(b)
Short Plan Year
. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, if a Participant first becomes a Participant after the
first day of a Plan Year, the maximum Annual Deferral Amount shall
be limited to the amount of compensation not yet earned by the
Participant as of the date the Participant submits a Plan Agreement
and Election Form to the Committee for acceptance, except to the
extent permissible under Code Section 409A and related Treasury
guidance or Regulations.
3.3
Election to Defer; Effect of
Election Form .
(a)
First Plan Year
. In connection with a
Participant’s commencement of participation in
the Plan, the Participant shall make an irrevocable deferral
election for the Plan Year in which the Participant commences
participation in the Plan, along with such other elections as the
Committee deems necessary or desirable under the Plan. For
these elections to be valid, the Election Form must be completed
and signed by the Participant, timely delivered to the Committee
(in accordance with Section 2.2 above) and accepted by the
Committee.
(b)
Subsequent Plan
Years . For
each succeeding Plan Year, an irrevocable deferral election for
that Plan Year, and such other elections as the Committee deems
necessary or desirable under the Plan, shall be made by timely
delivering a new Election Form to the Committee, in accordance with
its rules and procedures, before the end of the Company’s
fiscal year preceding the Plan Year for which the election is made,
or before such other deadline established by the Committee to the
extent such other deadline complies with the requirements of Code
Section 409A and related Treasury guidance. If no such
Election Form is timely delivered for a Plan Year, the Annual
Deferral Amount shall be zero for that Plan Year.
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(c)
Performance-Based
Compensation . Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Committee
may, in its sole discretion, determine that an irrevocable deferral
election pertaining to performance-based compensation may be made
by the Participant’s timely delivering an Election Form to
the Committee, in accordance with its rules and procedures, no
later than six 6 months before the end of the performance service
period. “Performance-based compensation” shall be
compensation from an Employer based on services performed over a
period of at least 12 months, in accordance with Code Section 409A
and related Treasury guidance or Regulations. Until such time
as Treasury guidance provides the requirements for an amount to
qualify as “performance-based compensation” under Code
Section 409A, the Committee may utilize the definition of
“bonus compensation” provided in Treasury Notice 2005-1
in determining which amounts may be deferred by delivering an
Election Form to the Committee, in accordance with its rules and
procedures, no later than six months before the end of the
performance service period.
3.4
Withholding and Crediting of
Annual Deferral Amounts .
(a)
For each Plan Year, the Base Salary
portion of the Annual Deferral Amount shall be withheld from each
regularly scheduled Base Salary payment in equal amounts, as
adjusted from time to time for increases and decreases in Base
Salary. The Bonus, Commission, Performance Based Restricted
Stock Units, and/or Director Fees portion of the Annual Deferral
Amount shall be withheld at the time these amounts are or otherwise
would be paid to the Participant, whether or not this occurs during
the Plan Year itself. Annual Deferral Amounts shall be
credited to the Participant’s Annual Account for such Plan
Year at the time such amounts would otherwise have been paid to the
Participant.
(b)
Notwithstanding any provision or
election under this Plan to the contrary, if necessary to comply
with Code Section 409A or to facilitate administration of the
Company’s payroll system, the Committee, in its sole
discretion, may choose to either (i) not withhold from Base Salary
during any payroll period in which any portion of such Base Salary
relates to services performed in a prior Plan Year, or (ii)
withhold from Base Salary during any payroll period in which any
portion of such Base Salary relates to services performed in a
prior Plan Year in accordance with the Participant’s deferral
election submitted for the prior Plan Year. Accordingly, in
order to carry out the intent of this provision, the Committee may
adjust a Participant’s Base Salary deferral election
submitted pursuant to this Article 3.
3.5
Company Contribution
Amount .
(a)
An Employer is not generally
required to make Employer Contributions to this Plan.
Employer Contributions may be made, however, as provided under the
following subsections of this section and Section 3.6.
(b)
For each Plan Year, an Employer may
be required to credit amounts to a Participant’s Annual
Account in accordance with employment or other agreements entered
into between the Participant and the Employer, which amounts shall
be part of the Participant’s Company Contribution Amount for
that Plan Year. Such amounts shall be credited to the
Participant’s Annual Account for the applicable Plan Year on
the date or dates prescribed by such agreements.
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(c)
For each Plan Year, an Employer, in
its sole discretion, may, but is not required to, credit any amount
it decides, in its discretion, to contribute to any
Participant’s Annual Account under this Plan, which amount
shall be part of the Participant’s Company Contribution
Amount for that Plan Year. The amount so credited to a
Participant may be smaller or larger than the amount credited to
any other Participant, and the amount credited to any Participant
for a Plan Year may be zero, even though one or more other
Participants receive a Company Contribution Amount for that Plan
Year. The Company Contribution Amount described in this
Section 3.5(c), if any, shall be credited to the
Participant’s Annual Account for the applicable Plan Year on
a date or dates to be determined by the Committee, in its sole
discretion.
3.6
Company Restoration Matching
Amount . A
Participant’s Company Restoration Matching Amount for any
Plan Year shall be an amount, which is determined by the Committee
to make up for a reduction in the Participant’s match in the
401(k) Plan for the Plan Year, if any, due to the
Participant’s deferral of Base Salary, Commissions, and Bonus
into this Plan for the Plan Year. In order to be eligible for
a Company Restoration Matching Amount, a Participant must
contribute the maximum amount that he or she is eligible to
contribute to the 401(k) Plan year that corresponds to the Plan
Year of this Plan. The amount of the Company Restoration
Matching Amount shall be computed by determining the increase in
the Participant’s eligible compensation (the
“Increase”) under the 401(k) Plan for the Plan Year
tha