Prior-year say-on-pay support was approximately 82%, comfortably above the 70% threshold that would require remediation. The compensation program is heavily weighted toward variable, long-term equity awards — the proxy discloses that 94.5% of the former CEO's reported pay and 99.6% of the new CEO's reported pay consisted of long-term equity incentives, far exceeding the 50-60% variable pay requirement. MDB's 3-year stock return of +21.2% outperforms the peer group median by +22.7 percentage points, demonstrating that above-benchmark incentive pay is supported by strong shareholder returns, and the company maintains robust clawback policies covering both financial restatements and executive misconduct.

Non-audit fees (audit-related fees of $86,200 + tax fees of $449,710 + other fees of $2,000 = $537,910) represent approximately 12.9% of core audit fees ($4,173,800), well below the 50% threshold that would raise independence concerns. PwC is a Big 4 firm appropriate for a ~$27B market cap company, auditor tenure is not disclosed so the tenure trigger cannot fire, and no material financial restatements are identified in the filing.