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Is your change-of-control package typical?

Your severance, accelerated equity and benefits as one multiple of salary plus bonus, against the packages public companies disclose for their chief executives. 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

4.4x

$7,460,000 in all, over $1,700,000 of salary plus target bonus.

Cash severance alone
2.0x
Equity share of the package
54%

Against disclosed CEO packages

Bottom quarter

Of 325 change-of-control packages public companies disclosed for their chief executives ($1B – $10B), each as a multiple of salary plus bonus.

25th
4.9x
Median
7.4x
75th
11.4x
90th
21.1x

From the potential-payments tables in SEC proxy statements (DEF 14A), snapshot as of 2026-10-28.

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Your figures are your own. Peer multiples are public companies only. Planning estimates, not financial, legal or tax advice.

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