Exhibit 10.37
Compensation Arrangements with Outside Directors
Non-management
(outside) directors are paid:
| | a quarterly retainer of $19,375; | ||
| | $2,000 for each in-person Board meeting attended; and | ||
| | $2,000 for each in-person committee meeting attended. |
Directors
who attend a Board or committee meeting telephonically are paid 75% of the applicable
in-person meeting fee.
For
fiscal 2009, chairpersons of the Compensation, Nominating & Governance and Information Technology
Oversight Committees will be paid an additional annual fee of $13,500. The Audit Committee
chairperson will be paid an additional annual fee of $22,500.
Each outside director who is elected
at FedExs 2008 annual meeting will receive a stock option for 4,400 shares of FedEx common stock on the date of the 2008 annual meeting. Any outside director appointed to the Board after the 2008
annual meeting will receive a stock option for 4,400 shares of FedEx common stock upon his or her
appointment.