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Annual Bonus
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Annual Bonus Amount: For any Participant, the three year average of the annual awards paid to the Participant under the Kimberly-Clark Corporation Executive Officer Achievement Award Program or the Kimberly-Clark Corporation Management Achievement Award Program, as applicable, or any successor or additional plan (the “Bonus Program”). The three year average of the annual awards paid to the Participant will be determined based on the higher of the three year period consisting of either # the year in which the Relevant Date occurred (or, if the bonus is not yet paid as of the Relevant Date, for the preceding year) and the two preceding years or, # the year of the Qualified Termination of Employment (or, if the bonus is not yet paid as of the Qualified Termination of Employment, for the preceding year) and the two preceding years. If a Participant has been paid less than three years of annual awards the Annual Bonus Amount will be determined based on the average dollar amount of the annual awards paid in prior years to the Participant under the Bonus Program. If a Participant has not received any prior payment of annual awards, the Annual Bonus Amount under the Bonus Program will be determined as follows:

"Target Bonus" means the annual bonus a Participant would earn, if any, for a Plan Year if Actual Adjusted Operating Income equaled Plan Adjusted Operating Income, determined by multiplying a Participant's Annual Salary for that Plan Year by the Participant's Target Bonus Percentage for that Plan Year.

Cognex Corporation (the “Company”) maintains a performance-based annual bonus program (the “Bonus Program”) for employees (including the Company’s executive officers), other than those employees on a sales commission plan. Each participant in the Bonus Program is assigned a target annual cash bonus. Participants may earn their bonuses based on the achievement of certain financial goals set forth in the Company’s annual budget related to budgeted non-GAAP consolidated operating income as a percentage of revenue (“operating margin”).

Annual Incentive Compensation. During the Employment Period, Executive shall be eligible to participate in an annual cash bonus program maintained for senior executive officers of the Company (the “Annual Incentive Program” or the “Plan”), with a minimum target annual bonus equal to 75% of Base Salary (the “Target Bonus”) for each year during the Employment Period in which Executive participates in the Annual Incentive Program; provided, however, that any bonus related to calendar year 2016 # shall be prorated for the period between the Effective Date and December 31, 2016, and # shall not be less than the full amount of the bonus for the prorated period, as calculated per the terms of the Company’s existing Performance Bonus Plan. The actual amount of the annual bonus earned by and payable to Executive for any year or portion of a year, as applicable, shall be determined upon the satisfaction of goals and objectives established by the Compensation Committee pursuant to the Plan, and shall be subject to such other terms and conditions of the Annual Incentive Program as in effect from time to time, provided that all awards shall be designed in a manner such that the annual bonus will be treated as “qualified performance-based compensation” within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended (the “Code”). Each bonus paid under the Annual Incentive Program shall be paid to Executive no later than March 15th of the calendar year following the calendar year for which the bonus is earned.

Good Reason.Good Reason” means a material reduction in the Officer’s base salary and annual bonus opportunity, in the aggregate, but not including a reduction in the Officer’s base salary or annual bonus opportunity if the Company also uniformly reduces the base salary or annual bonus opportunity of substantially all other employees of the Company with similar authority, status and responsibilities of such Officer.

Annual Bonus. In addition to the above Annual Salary, you will be eligible to receive certain

Bonus Compensation. You also shall be eligible to receive annual bonus compensation (“Bonus”) during your employment with [[Organization A:Organization]] under this Agreement, determined and payable as follows:

Employee shall be promptly paid a lump sum payment equal to one times her current annual base salary plus one times the higher of the most recent annual bonus paid to her under the Annual Incentive Program or her target bonus amount as of the date immediately prior to the change in control under the Annual Incentive Program;

You will participate in the Company’s Executive Bonus Plan. Your target bonus percent is 60% of your annual base salary. A copy of the 2022 Executive Bonus Plan is being provided to you with this letter.

Special Severance Bonus” shall mean: an amount equal to the aggregate annual bonus under the Executive Bonus Plan for the year in which the Executive incurs a Termination of employment to which the Executive would otherwise have been entitled had her employment not been terminated, provided, however, for any bonus (or portion thereof) under the Executive Bonus Plan based on the individual attainment of goals and objectives, “Special Severance Bonus” shall mean, subject to the achievement of any metric or threshold as a precondition for eligibility to receive such bonus, an amount equal to the annual target bonus for the year in which the Executive incurs a Termination of employment, regardless of whether the Executive would otherwise have achieved such bonus had her employment not been terminated.

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