Company: SDSYA
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001163609-25-000013
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Company: SOUTH DAKOTA SOYBEAN PROCESSORS LLC
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
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 “Bonus,” "Deferred Compensation," “Stock Awards,” and “All Other Compensation” above for further information.

#### CEO Pay Ratio
We are required by SEC rules to disclose in the Company’s proxy statement the annual total compensation of the median-compensated employee of, generally, all Company employees (excluding the CEO), the annual total compensation of our CEO, and the ratio of the CEO compensation to the median employee’s compensation.

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Our employee population as of December 31, 2024 (the date we selected to identify our median employee), consisted of 139 individuals, all of whom were located in the United States.

The median of the annual total compensation of all of our employees (excluding our chief executive officer) was $78,261.

The annual total compensation of our Chief Executive Officer, as reported on our Summary Compensation Table, was $640,780. Based on this information, the ratio of our Chief Executive Officer's annual total compensation to our median employee was 8.2:1.

We identified our median employee based on the annual total compensation paid during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, calculated consistent with the disclosure requirements of executive compensation under Item 402(c)(2)(x) of Regulation S-K.

In addition, for purposes of reporting the ratio of annual total compensation of our chief executive officer to the median employee, both our Chief Executive Officer and median employee’s total compensation paid during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, were calculated consistent with the disclosure requirements of executive compensation under Item 402(c)(2)(x) of Regulation S-K. The Company has not made any of the adjustments permissible by the SEC, nor have any material assumptions or estimates been made to identify the median employee or to determine annual total compensation.

#### Pay Versus Performance
As required by Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K, we are providing the following information regarding the relationship between executive compensation and our financial performance for each of the last three completed calendar years. In determining the “compensation actually paid” to our named executive officers, we are required to make various adjustments to amounts that are reported in the Summary Compensation Table, as the SEC’s valuation methods for this section differ from those required in the Summary Compensation Table. The table below summarizes compensation values both reported in our Summary Compensation Table, as well as the adjusted values required in this section for the 2022, 2023 and 2024 fiscal years.

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