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JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP INC. 1995 EXECUTIVE DEFERRAL PLAN

Executive Compensation Plan Agreement

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Title: JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP INC. 1995 EXECUTIVE DEFERRAL PLAN
Date: 7/30/2009
Industry: Construction Services     Sector: Capital Goods

JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP INC. 

 

1995 EXECUTIVE DEFERRAL PLAN, Parties: jacobs engineering group inc /de/
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Exhibit 10.7

 

JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP INC.

 

1995 EXECUTIVE DEFERRAL PLAN

(EDP)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Effective January 1, 1995


1995 EXECUTIVE DEFERRAL PLAN

OF

JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP INC.

 

Purpose

The purpose of this plan is to provide specified benefits to a select group of key employees who contribute materially to the continued growth, development and future business success of JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP INC. and its subsidiaries.

 

Article 1

Definitions

For purposes hereof, unless otherwise clearly apparent from the context, the following phrases or terms shall have the following indicated meanings:

 

1.2

“Account Balance” shall mean the sum of (i) the Deferral Amount and (ii) interest credited in accordance with all the applicable interest crediting provisions of this Plan, less all distributions made in accordance with the Plan.

 

1.3

“Annual Bonus” shall mean any compensation paid under any discretionary or formula bonus plan sponsored by the Employer.

 

1.4

“Base Annual Salary” shall mean the annual compensation that is to be paid to a Participant for each Plan Year, determined as the first day of that year, excluding bonuses, commissions, overtime and non-monetary awards for employment services to the Employer.

 

1.5

“Beneficiary” shall mean the person or persons, or the estate of a Participant, designated in accordance with Article 9, who is entitled to receive benefits under this Plan upon the death of a Participant.

 

1.6

“Beneficiary Designation Form” shall mean the form established from time to time by the Board that Participant completes, signs and returns to the Committee to designate one or more Beneficiaries.

 

1.7

“Board” shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company.

 

1.8

“Change in Control” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 13.4.

 

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1.9

“Claimant” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 17.1

 

1.10

“Committee” shall mean the administrative committee appointed to manage and administer the Plan in accordance with the provisions of Article 16.

 

1.11

“Company” shall mean JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP INC.

 

1.12

“Continuing Director” shall mean a director described in Section 13.4(b).

 

1.13

“CRSS” Plan” shall mean the CRSS Inc. Senior Management Deferred Compensation Plan, a nonqualified deferred compensation plan in which a Participant who was a CRSS employee prior to becoming an Employee participated and received a distribution in 1995.

 

1.14

“Deferral Amount” shall be the sum of all of Participant’s Base Annual Salary deferrals, Annual Bonus deferrals and, if applicable, Directors Fees deferrals.

 

1.15

“Deferral Commitment Period” shall mean the period described in Section 3.4 of this Plan.

 

1.16

“Director” shall mean any member of the Board.

 

1.17

“Directors Fees” shall mean the annual fees paid by the Company, including retainer fees and meetings fees, as compensation for serving on the Board.

 

1.18

“Disability” shall mean a period of disability during which a Participant qualifies for benefits under the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ long-term disability program.

 

1.19

“Election Form” shall mean the form established from time to time by the Board that a Participant completes, signs and returns to the Committee to make an election under the Plan.

 

1.20

“Employee” shall mean any person who is in the regular full-time employment of an Employer as determined by the personnel policies and practices of the Employer.

 

1.21

“Employer” shall mean the Company and any subsidiaries of the Company that have been selected by the Board to participate in the Plan.

 

1.22

“Moody’s Rate” shall mean the interest rate determined and announced by the Committee at any time before the commencement of each Plan Year. The Moody’s Rate for a Plan Year shall be the most current monthly “Seasoned Corporate Bond” rate published by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any successor to that service, available prior to the announcement by the Committee. The Seasoned Corporate Bond rate is an economic indicator, based on an arithmetic average of the yields of representative bonds, including industrials, public utilities, Aaa, A and Baa bonds, and is calculated as a monthly average of the composite yield.

 

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1.23

“Participant” shall mean any Employee or Director who (i) is selected to participate in the Plan, (ii) elects to participate in the Plan, (iii) signs a Plan Agreement, an Election Form, a Beneficiary Designation Form and a Spousal Consent Form, (iv) the signed Plan Agreement, Election Form, Beneficiary Designation Form and Spousal Consent Form are returned to and accepted by the Committee and (v) neither the Plan nor the Plan Agreement has terminated.

 

1.24

“Participation Year” shall mean with respect to any Participant, any Plan Year in which a Participant is at any time during such year a Participant. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, “Participation Year” shall not include any years prior to the first Plan Year in which a Participant actually has any amount deferred under this Plan.

 

1.25

“Plan” shall mean the 1995 Executive Deferral Plan of the Employer which is defined by this instrument and by each Plan Agreement.

 

1.26

“Plan Agreement” shall mean the form of written agreement which is entered into by and between the Employer and a Participant. Each Plan Agreement executed by a Participant shall provide for the entire benefit to which such Participant is entitled to under the Plan, and the Plan Agreement bearing the latest date shall govern such entitlement.

 

1.27

The “Plan Year” shall begin on January 1 of each year and continue through December 31 of the same year.

 

1.28

“Pre-Retirement Distribution” shall mean the distribution provided for in Article 4.

 

1.29

“Retirement Benefit” shall mean the retirement benefit provided for in Article 5.

 

1.30

“Retirement Date” shall be the earlier of the first day of the month in which the Participant (i) attains the age of sixty-five (65), (ii) is sixty (60) years of age or older and has completed ten (10) Years of Service, or (iii) is terminated as a result of a long-term disability under the Employer’s policies and practices.

 

1.31

“Retirement Distribution Date” shall mean the last day of the month in which the Participant has both (i) reached or passed his or her Retirement Date and (ii) has actually ceased being an Employee or Director other than by death.

 

1.32

“Survivor’s Benefit” shall mean the benefit provided for in Article 6.

 

1.33

“Termination Benefit” shall mean the termination benefit provided for in Section 7.2.

 

1.34

“Termination of Employment” shall mean with respect to an Employer or Director the cessation of employment or a Director’s position, as the case may be, voluntarily or involuntarily, and, except as provided in Article 8 and Article 10, shall exclude cessation

 

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as a result of an authorized leave of absence, retirement, Disability or death. If a Participant is both an Employee and a Director, Termination of Employment shall occur only upon the termination of last held position.

 

1.35

“Trust” shall mean the trust established pursuant to that certain Trust Agreement, dated as of June 1, 1991, between the Company and the Trustee named therein, as amended from time to time.

 

1.36

“Unforeseeable Financial Emergency” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.8(b).

 

1.37

“Years of Service” shall mean the total number of years, that a Participant is an Employee or a Director, including, without limitation, periods of Disability and leaves of absence prior to Termination of Employment, as provided under Article 8 and Article 10.

 

Article 2

Eligibility

 

2.1

Eligibility and Participation. The Committee, in its sole discretion, shall establish eligibility qualifications for participation in the Plan. Participation shall be limited to a select group of management and highly compensated employees of the Employer.

 

2.2

Enrollment Requirements. As a condition of participation, each Participant so selected shall complete, sign and return to the Committee a Plan Agreement, an Election Form, a Beneficiary Designation Form and a Spousal consent Form and shall comply with all further conditions that may be established by the Committee.

 

Article 3

Deferral Commitments

 

3.1

Minimum Deferral . A Participant must defer during each Plan Year of the Deferral Commitment Period at least one of the following minimum amounts:

 

 

(a)

In the case of an Employee, $2,000 of his or her Base Salary; or

 

 

(b)

In the case of a Director who is not an Employee, a percentage that is anticipated to equal $2,000 of his or her Directors Fees.

 

 

A Participant shall not be permitted to defer any portion of his or her Annual Bonus unless he or she meets one of the minimum Deferral requirements set forth in this Section. If a Participant first becomes a Participant after the first day of a Plan Year, or in the case of the first Plan Year of the Plan itself, at the election of the Employee on the Election Form, the minimum deferral described in (a) shall be an amount equal to $2,000,

 

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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.

 

3.2

Maximum Deferral . For each Plan Year of the Deferral Commitment Period, subject to the provisions of Section 3.6, a Participant may defer:

 

Deferral of

  

Maximum Percentage

Base Annual Salary

  

50%

Directors Fees

  

100%

Annual Bonus

  

50%

 

 

A Participant who received a distribution from the CRSS Plan may defer from his Base Annual Salary an amount equal to the CRSS Plan distribution, even if it exceeds the 50% maximum percentage above. Further, the 50% Base Annual Salary maximum percentage may be exceeded until a Participant has completely offset the CRSS Plan distribution. Accordingly, a Participant must notify the Committee of the amount of his or her distribution under the CRSS Plan within five (5) days of receipt of the distribution.

 

3.3

Fixed Deferral Amount . Except as provided in Section 3.6, the annual deferral selected by a Participant shall be the same for each Plan Year of the Deferral Commitment Period. A Base Annual Salary deferral shall be a fixed dollar amount, and an Annual Bonus or Directors Fees deferral shall be a fixed percentage of the applicable annual bonus or fee. In no event shall an annual deferral amount be decreased during the Deferral Commitment Period. An annual deferral amount may only be increased (i) prior to the commencement of the Plan Year to which such annual deferral amount relates and (ii) with the approval of the Committee.

 

3.4

Deferral Commitment Period. The “Deferral Commitment Period” for each Participant shall be a fixed period of four (4) consecutive Plan Years commencing with the 1995 Plan Year unless otherwise designated by the Committee.

 

3.5

Withholding of Deferral Amounts. The portion of the Base Annual Salary elected to be deferred annually shall be withheld in equal amounts over the Plan Year. The portion of Annual Bonus and Directors Fees being deferred shall be withheld at the time of the Annual Bonus or Directors Fees would otherwise be paid to the Participant.

 

3.6

FICA Taxes . For each Plan Year of the Deferral Commitment Period, the Employer shall withhold from that portion of the Participant’s Base Annual Salary and/or Annual Bonus that is not being deferred, the Participant’s share of FICA taxes based on an amount equal to the Base Annual Salary and/or Annual Bonus before reduction by the amount deferred. If necessary, the Committee shall reduce the amount deferred in order to comply with this Section 3.6.

 

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3.7

Interest Crediting Prior to Distribution

 

 

(a)

Except as provided in Section 3.7(b) and Section 3.7(c) below, interest shall be credited annually on a Participants Account Balance at 125% of the Moody’s Rate. For purposes of this crediting, all amounts deferred during a Plan Year. Such interest crediting shall be made up to the date of the pre-Retirement Distribution, the Retirement Date the date of the Participant’s death or the date of Termination of Employment, depending on whether the benefit is paid under Article 4, 5, 6 or 7, respectively.

 

 

(b)

In the event of a Termination of Employment, interest shall be credited in the manner provided in Section 3.7(a), but at the rate provided for in Section 7.2

 

 

(c)

In the event of a Participant’s suicide within twenty-four months of the first deferral of any Deferral Commitment period, interest shall be credited in accordance with Section 6.4. After the first twenty-four months, interest will be credited in accordance with Sections 3.7(a) and 3.7(b) above.

 

3.8

Hardship

 

 

(a)

If a Participant experiences on Unforeseeable Financial Emergency as described in Section 3.8(b) below, the Participant may petition the Committee to (i) suspend any deferrals required by the Plan Agreement and/or (ii) receive a distribution from the Plan. Any approval of such a petition shall be made at the sole discretion of the Committee. If the Committee approves a distribution, the distribution shall be made within sixty (60) days of the date of approval. The distribution may not exceed the Participant’s Account Balance as of the last day of the month prior to the date of the Committee’s approval of the petition, calculated as if such Participant were receiving a Termination Benefit as of such date.

 

 

(b)

An “Unforeseeable Financial Emergency” shall mean an unexpected need for cash arising from an illness, casualty loss, sudden financial reversal, transfer of place of employment or other such unforeseeable occurrence, all as determined in the sole discretion of the Committee.

 

Article 4

Pre-Retirement Distribution

 

4.1

Eligibility for Pre-Retirement Distribution . A Participant may elect to receive a Pre-Retirement Distribution from the Plan to be received in or after the eighth Participation Year. This election shall be irrevocable and shall be made on the Election Form, which form is to be delivered to the Committee prior to the commencement of the Deferral Commitment Period.

 

4.2

Amount of Distribution . The amount of the Pre-Retirement Distribution shall be any amount not to exceed the electing Participant’s Account Balance at the end of the Participation Year prior to the Participation Year selected on the Election Form for the distribution. The Pre-Retirement Distribution may not be made prior to the eighth (8 th ) Participation Year. At the election of the Participant (on the Election Form), this amount

 

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shall be distributed or, in the case of installment payments, shall start distribution within ninety (90) days of the January 1 st of the Participation Year selected on the Election Form in one of the following manners:

 

 

(a)

In a lump equal to the Total Account Balance at the end of the Participation Year prior to the Participation Year selected on the Election Form for the distribution; or

 

 

(b)

In a lump sum equal to a fixed dollar amount. Such fixed dollar amount shall be chosen by the Participant on the Election Form. Any remaining amounts in the Account Balance, after completion of the Pre-Retirement Distribution, shall remain in the Plan to be paid under the other provisions of the Plan; or

 

 

(c)

In four or fewer annual consecutive installments of a fixed dollar amount. Such fixed dollar amount shall be chosen by the Participant on the Election Form. Interest on the unpaid Account Balance shall be credited at 125% of Moody’s. Any remaining amounts in the Account Balance, after completion of the Pre-Retirement Distribution, shall remain in the Plan to be paid under the other provisions of the Plan; or

 

 

(d)

In four or fewer annual consecutive installments so that the total Account Balance is completely distributed over the elected installment period. Interest on the unpaid Account Balance shall be credited at 125% of Moody’s.

If the amount of Pre-Retirement Distribution elected by the Participant exceeds the total Account Balance at any time during the Pre-Retirement Distribution period, only the amount remaining in the Account Balance shall be distributed to the Participant and the Employer shall have no further liability under the Plan.

 

Article 5

Retirement Benefit

 

5.1

Eligibility for Retirement Benefit . If the Participant ceases to be an Employee or a Director for any reason other than death, including without limitation, retirement or a Termination of Employment after the Retirement Date, the Employer shall pay the Retirement Benefit to the Participant (or his or her Beneficiary) as provided in Section 5.2 and Section 5.3 below.

 

5.2

Retirement Benefit – Method of Payment . The Retirement Benefit may be paid in a lump sum, or in installments over a period of 60, 120, or 180 months at the sole discretion of the Committee. The lump sum payment shall be made, or installment payments shall commence, within sixty (60) days of the Retirement Distribution Date and in the case of installment payments, shall continue until the Retirement Benefit is paid in full.

 

5.3

Retirement Benefit – Amount . If the Retirement Benefit is paid in a lump sum, it shall be the retired Participant’s Account Balance determined as of the Retirement Distribution Date. If the Retirement Benefit is paid in installments, it shall be a constant monthly

 

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payment, determined at the beginning of each Plan Year by monthly amortization of the remaining Account Balance over the remaining payment period. Interest on the unpaid balance will be credited for the remaining periods at 125% of the Moody’s Rate established for each of the subsequent Plan Years.

 

5.4

Death Prior to Completion of Retirement Benefit . If the Participant dies after the Retirement Date and prior to the completion of the Retirement Benefit payments, the retired Participant’s designated Beneficiary will receive any unpaid Retirement Benefit payments due the Participant, either at the times they were to be received by the Participant, or in


 
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