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Your change-of-control package as one multiple

Your severance, accelerated equity and benefits as one multiple of salary plus bonus. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.

Your package

The lump sum or salary continuation your agreement pays.

Unvested awards that vest on the change, at today's share price.

Continued health cover, outplacement, any pro-rata bonus.

Your change-of-control multiple

3.7x

$2,240,000 in all, over $600,000 of salary plus target bonus.

Cash severance alone
2.0x
Equity share of the package
45%

Against disclosed CFO packages

Second quarter (below the median)

Of 886 change-of-control packages public companies disclosed for their CFOs (All revenue sizes), each as a multiple of salary plus bonus.

25th
3.0x
Median
4.7x
75th
7.8x
90th
14.4x

From the potential-payments tables in SEC proxy statements (DEF 14A), snapshot as of 2026-11-02.

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The package shown first is sample figures: replace them with your own. Peer multiples are public companies only. Private-company pay is not covered, and smaller reporting companies may omit the CFO under Item 402(m). Planning estimates, not financial, legal or tax advice.

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