Examples of 2019 Pay Ratio Disclosures

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Set forth below are examples of pay ratio disclosures from recently filed proxies where registrants chose to rely on the median employee identified in the prior year.

Sabre Corporation

In accordance with Item 402(u), we are using the same “median employee” identified in 2017 in our 2018 pay ratio calculation, as we believe that there has been no change in our employee population or employee compensation arrangements that we believe would result in a significant change to our pay ratio disclosure for 2018. See our 2017 proxy statement for information regarding the process we utilized to identify our “median employee.” We then identified and calculated the elements of this employee’s total compensation for 2018 in accordance with the requirements of Item 402(c)(2)(x) of Regulation S-K, resulting in annual total compensation of $88,297. This annual total compensation includes the estimated value of the employee’s health care benefits (estimated for the employee and the employee’s eligible dependents to be $1,890) and other statutory benefits. With respect to the annual total compensation of our CEO, we used the amount reported in the “Total” column of our 2018 Summary Compensation Table, adjusted as follows. To maintain consistency between the annual total compensation of our CEO and the “median employee,” we added the estimated value of our CEO’s health care benefits (estimated for our CEO and our CEO’s eligible dependents at $24,905) to the amount reported in the 2018 Summary Compensation Table. This resulted in annual total compensation for purposes of determining the ratio in the amount of $10,797,250, which exceeds the amount reported for him in the Summary Compensation Table by this amount.

Seaboard Corporation

Seaboard has elected to identify its median employee every three years unless a significant change in employee population or employee compensation arrangements has occurred. In 2018, the prior year’s median employee terminated employment. Therefore, as allowed by the SEC, Seaboard identified an alternate median employee with comparable pay as the median employee for 2018.

Superior Industries International, Inc.

In accordance with Instruction 2 to Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K, because there has been no change in our employee population or employee compensation arrangements in the past fiscal year that we reasonably believe would result in a significant change to our pay ratio disclosure, we elected to utilize the same median employee that we had identified in 2017 to calculate our 2018 CEO pay ratio. The process that we used to determine our median employee in 2017 is summarized below:

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

For 2018, we used the same median employee that was identified in 2017 since there has been no change in our employee population or employee compensation arrangements that we believe would significantly impact our pay ratio disclosure.

DISCLAIMER: Because of the generality of this update, the information provided herein may not be applicable in all situations and should not be acted upon without specific legal advice based on particular situations.

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