Potential Award definition

Potential Award means with respect to each Participant for the Plan Year a dollar amount determined by multiplying the individual’s salary by a percentage designed by the Compensation Committee. The Potential Award represents the Incentive Award payable to the Participant in the event that Corporate and Participant’s personal objectives are achieved for the Plan Year. In the event that no personal objectives are established for a Plan Year, the Potential Award represents the Incentive Award payable to the Participant in the event that all of the Corporate Objectives established at the beginning of the Plan Year are fully achieved for the Plan Year.
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Potential Award means an Award which is potentially payable to a Participant, the terms of which are established by the Committee as of the Determination Date for a Plan Year. The terms of a Potential Award can relate to that Plan Year, or a series of Plan Years, and can be exclusively performance-based, with Performance Goals, or can involve a combination of performance-based criteria and individual performance assessments, as the Committee, in its sole discretion, may determine. The Committee shall have the power to impose any restrictions on Potential Awards subject to this Plan as it may deem necessary or appropriate to ensure that an Award under this Plan, to the extent applicable, satisfies all the requirements for “performance-based compensation” within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Code, the regulations thereunder, and any successors thereto.
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Potential Award means an Award which is potentially payable to a Participant, the terms of which are approved by the Committee for a Plan Year. The terms of a Potential Award shall relate to that Plan Year and can be exclusively performance-based, with Performance Goals, or can involve a combination of performance-based criteria and individual performance assessments, as the Committee, in its sole discretion, may determine.
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Examples of Potential Award in a sentence

  • You shall have no right to assign any interest you might have in all or any part of the Target Award or Potential Award which has been granted to you under this Award Agreement and any attempt to do so shall be null and void and shall have no force or effect whatsoever.

  • This portion of your award shall be known as the “Payable Portion” of your Potential Award.

  • If you terminate employment during the Performance Period but are eligible to receive a portion of your Potential Award as a result of an exception under Section 5.1(b), payment of such portion of your Potential Award shall be in full satisfaction of all rights you have under this Award Agreement.

  • If you terminate employment during the Performance Period but are eligible to receive a portion of your Potential Award as a result of an exception under this Section 5.1(b), payment of such portion of your Potential Award shall be in full satisfaction of all rights you have under this Award Agreement.

  • The Committee shall have complete and absolute discretion to make the determinations called for under this Section 5.1(b), and all such determinations shall be binding on you and on any person who claims all or any part of your Potential Award on your behalf as well as on the Corporation.

  • If you are eligible to receive all, or a portion of, your Potential Award under Section 5.1, up to $10,000,000 of your Potential Award shall be fully vested on the date on which the Committee certifies in writing that your Target Award has become a Potential Award for the Performance Period.

  • Except as provided below, if your employment as an Employee terminates during the Performance Period, you shall forfeit your right to receive all or any part of your Potential Award.

  • A Potential Award is then multiplied by the sum of the weights derived.

  • If you terminate employment during the Performance Period but are eligible to receive a portion of your Potential Award as a result of an exception under Section 5.1(b), payment of such portion of your Potential Award shall be in full satisfaction of all rights you have under this Award Agreement; in such circumstances, you will not be eligible for a payment of the Deferred Portion under Section 5.2(c) and no other amounts will be payable to you or on your behalf.

  • If you are eligible to receive your Potential Award under Section 5.1(a), the Immediate Portion of your Potential Award shall be fully vested and shall be either paid in cash to you or deferred in accordance with Section 5.2(e).


More Definitions of Potential Award

Potential Award means an Award which is potentially payable to a Participant, the terms of which are established by the Committee as of the Determination Date for a Program Year. The terms of a Potential Award relate to that Program Year and can be exclusively performance-based, with Performance Goals, or can involve a combination of performance-based criteria and individual performance-based assessments, as the Committee, in its sole discretion, may determine.
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Potential Award means with respect to each Participant for the Plan Year a dollar amount determined by multiplying the mid-point level for his salary grade as of the first day of the Plan Year by a percentage designated by the Committee prior to the first day of the Plan Year or within sixty days after the Effective Date for the 1996 Plan Year. The Potential Award represents the Maximum Incentive Award payable to the Participant in the event the Maximum ROAA is achieved for the Plan Year and shall be reflected on his Incentive Participation Certificate for the Plan Year.
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Potential Award. – initially means with respect to each Participant for the Plan Year a dollar amount determined by multiplying the mid-point of the base salary range for the individual’s job by a percentage designated by the Compensation Committee. The Potential Award represents the Incentive Award payable to the Participant if the Bank fully achieves its Pre-Tax, Pre-Incentive Net Income objective for the Plan Year. If the Bank fails to achieve 100% of its Pre-Tax, Pre-Incentive Net Income objective for the Plan Year, but does achieve more than a Base amount of Pre-Tax, Pre-Incentive Net Income objective for the Plan Year, the Potential Award is prorated by the percent of the Bank’s achievement of its Pre-Tax, Pre-Incentive Net Income objective range for the Plan Year. After adjusting for the Bank’s achievement of its Pre-Tax, Pre-Incentive Net Income objective for the Plan Year, the adjusted Potential Award represents the Incentive Award payable to the Participant in the event that all of the Participant’s personal and/or team objectives are fully achieved for the Plan Year.
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Potential Award means the aggregate percent, based upon achievement of designated annual corporate objectives, which will determine the range of Award Payments which may be earned by each Participant.
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Related to Potential Award

  • Performance Stock Award means a Stock Award granted under the terms and conditions of Section 6(c)(i).

  • Performance Share Unit or “PSU” means a unit equivalent in value to a Share, credited by means of a bookkeeping entry in the books of the Corporation in accordance with Article 6;

  • Full Value Award means an Award other than in the form of an ISO, NQSO, or SAR, and which is settled by the issuance of Shares.

  • Performance Award means any right granted under Section 6(d) of the Plan.

  • Performance Shares means Shares or an Award denominated in Shares which may be earned in whole or in part upon attainment of performance criteria established by the Administrator.