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Annual Incentive Award Weightings
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Annual Incentive Award Weightings. The following table identifies the Annual Incentive Award element weightings based on the performance components and Participant classification. Participant classification will be determined by the Administrator and communicated to the Participant.

Annual Incentive Award.Annual Incentive Award” shall mean the annual incentive compensation (including for this purpose any long term performance share awards, restricted stock, stock options or any other equity based award) paid or payable or granted during the applicable fiscal year or any award to the extent specified by the Committee in the relevant award agreement or any other equity based awards in each case paid or payable or granted in lieu of annual non-equity incentive compensation for that fiscal year; provided further that, # the grant date fair value of any equity based award granted as annual incentive compensation shall be included in the computation of the annual incentive amounts paid or granted in any applicable fiscal year based upon the grant date fair value of such award for accounting purposes and # any dividend equivalents paid or payable with respect to such an equity based award shall not be considered annual incentive compensation.

Annual Incentive/Bonus Award. The Executive will be eligible for an annual bonus or incentive compensation during the Employment Term and the Extended Employment Term, if any, based upon the bonus and performance standards established by the Board of Directors and as determined, with specific regard to the Executive, each year by the Board of Directors. Payment of any and all incentive/bonus awards are totally at the discretion of the Board of Directors and are not assumed to be a guaranteed component of the Executive’s compensation.

Annual Incentive. In addition to the Annual Base Salary, the Executive shall be awarded, for each fiscal year ending during the Employment Period, annual incentive compensation in cash (the “Annual Incentive Award”) at least equal to the higher of # the Executive’s target annual incentive award under the Company’s Management Committee and Shared Services Incentive Compensation Plan, or any comparable plan in which the Executive is eligible to participate, or any predecessor or successor plan thereto (the “Annual Incentive Plan”), for the fiscal year in which the Effective Date occurs as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Date (or if no target has been established, the target annual incentive award in effect for the most recently completed fiscal year prior to the Effective Date, (the “Target Annual Incentive Award”), and # the average of the annual incentive awards earned under the Annual Incentive Plan for the last three full fiscal years prior to the Effective Date (or for such lesser number of full fiscal years prior to the Effective Date for which the Executive was eligible to earn such an award, and annualized in the case of any pro rata award earned for a partial fiscal year), in each case, including any award or portion thereof that has been earned but deferred or paid in the form of Company common stock or equity awards, plus any additional discretionary annual incentive compensation awarded for a fiscal year of the Company and the Affiliated Entities at the time annual incentive awards are determined (such amount, the “Recent Annual Incentive Award”). Each such Annual Incentive Award shall be paid no later than two and a half months after the end of the fiscal year for which the Annual Incentive Award is awarded, unless the Executive shall elect to defer the receipt of such Annual Incentive Award pursuant to an arrangement that meets the requirements of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”).

Determination of Annual Incentive Award. The Annual Incentive Award for each Participant shall be determined by the Committee pursuant to Section 5.1. in its sole discretion based on the attainment of the Performance Measure(s) or such other factors as the Committee determines in its sole discretion.

Payment of Annual Incentive Award. Annual Incentive Awards shall be paid or settled on or prior to March 15 of the calendar year after the fiscal year ends, except as otherwise determined by the Committee, but in no event later than the last day of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the applicable fiscal year ends. Payment of Annual Incentive Awards shall be subject to the Participant remaining employed until the date of payment, except as otherwise determined by the Committee in its sole discretion.

Annual Award. On the first Trading Day immediately following each Annual Meeting of the Company’s stockholders (an “Annual Meeting”) that occurs after the Effective Date, each Outside Director who has been serving as an Outside Director for at least six (6) months as of the date of such Annual Meeting automatically will be granted an award of Options (an “Annual Award”) to purchase a number of Shares having a Value of $379,000, with any resulting fraction rounded down to the nearest whole Share. Each Annual Award will be scheduled to vest on the earlier of # the one-year anniversary of the date the Annual Award is granted or # the day prior to the date of the Annual Meeting next following the date the Annual Award is granted, in each case, subject to the Outside Director continuing to be Service Provider through the applicable vesting date.

Annual Incentive Awards. A participant, who has previously been notified by the Company that he or she was eligible to receive an Annual Incentive Award for the year in which the Change of Control occurs, shall be paid a target incentive award for the calendar year of the Change of Control. The award shall be paid on the date on which Annual Incentive Awards would otherwise have been paid absent a Change of Control notwithstanding, except if a participant suffers a termination of employment on account of a Change of Control as defined under the Pitney Bowes Senior Executive Severance Policy, such participant shall be paid a prorated target incentive award no later than fifteen (15) days after the participant terminates employment.

The amount of the Executive’s annual incentive compensation shall be based on the achievement of the performance goal(s) established for the Company’s fiscal year (the “Performance Year”). The Committee shall determine the amount of the annual incentive compensation that may be earned, as well as the performance goals(s) that must be achieved. The potential incentive payout amount and the performance goal(s) will be separately communicated to the Executive by the Company. The calculation of the performance goal(s) shall be adjusted by the Committee to account for non-reoccurring factors, extraordinary gains or losses; changes in accounting rules; acquisitions and divestures of more than $10,000,000; stock issuances or stock dividends.

Annual Incentive Bonus. You will be eligible to receive an annual incentive bonus, under the Company's Annual Executive Incentive Program ("AEIP"), with a target of 100% of your Base Salary, determined and paid in accordance with the Company's normal procedures.

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