Company: CENX
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001552781-25-000153
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Company: CENTURY ALUMINUM CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 and is reflected in adjustments or enhancements to our policies and practices. Going forward, we intend to continue our efforts to proactively engage with our stockholders, to maintain transparency and to better understand their views on key issues. 2024 Non-Employee Director Compensation Our non-employee director compensation program is designed to attract and retain talented director candidates. The Board and the Compensation Committee, with the assistance of the Compensation Committee’s independent compensation consultant, annually review the pay levels and structure of our directors’ compensation. Directors who are full-time salaried employees of Century are not compensated for their service on the Board. The Board believes that (i) compensation for independent directors should be a mix of cash and equity-based compensation and (ii) compensation for non-employee, non-independent, Board members should only be in cash in order to avoid indirectly increasing the beneficial ownership of any stockholder with whom they may be affiliated. Any retainers due to the directors are paid on a quarterly basis together with any meeting fees incurred during the prior quarter. All directors are also reimbursed for their travel and other expenses incurred in attending Board and Board committee meetings. For 2024, Mr. van Jaarsveld waived his right to receive compensation of any kind, including his right to receive expense reimbursement.

| 2025            
 Proxy Statement | 18 |

Corporate Governance The table below sets forth the components of compensation for our non-employee directors (other than Mr. van Jaarsveld) in 2024:

| Annual                               
 Compensation Element                 |   Amount |
| Annual                               
 Cash Retainer                        |  $45,000 |
| Independent                          
 Chairman Annual Cash Retainer        | $100,000 |
| Audit                                
 Committee Chair Annual Cash Retainer |  $12,500 |
| Other                                
 Committee Chair Annual Cash Retainer |  $10,000 |
| Annual                               
 Equity Award(a)                      | $125,000 |
| Board                                
 and Committee Meeting Fees(b)        |   $2,000 |

| (a) | The                                                                                          
 annual equity award is granted in the form of time-vested stock units (“TVSUs”)              
 following the annual stockholders’ meeting or in connection with a new director appointment. 
 Each TVSU vests on the earlier of (i) the one-year anniversary of its grant date or (ii)     
 the next succeeding annual stockholder meeting. For any director who reaches the age of 65,  
 his or her outstanding TVSU award will immediately vest pursuant to its terms, and for any