Company: JOUT
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-000715
Chunk: 41

Company: JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 41
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 to do so on a case-by-case basis in accordance with prior practice. Accounting Considerations . Although the Compensation Committee designs certain components of executive compensation to preserve income tax deductibility, it believes that it is not in the shareholders’ interest to restrict the Compensation Committee’s discretion and flexibility in developing appropriate compensation programs and establishing compensation levels and, in some instances, the Compensation Committee may approve compensation that is not fully deductible. Timing of Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Unit Grants . Generally, grants of shares of restricted stock and performance-based restricted stock units to employees (other than inducement grants to new employees) are made annually on the date of the first quarterly meeting of the Compensation Committee held in December of each year, after prior fiscal year earnings have been determined, and the amount of the actual grant can be calculated. The grant date is always the date of approval of the grant by the Compensation Committee. Report of the Compensation Committee The Compensation Committee has reviewed and discussed the Compensation Discussion and Analysis section of this Proxy Statement with our management and, based on such review and discussions with management, the Compensation Committee recommended to our Board of Directors that the Compensation Discussion and Analysis be included in this Proxy Statement.

| COMPENSATION COMMITTEE: |     |                                  |
|                         |     | Katherine Button Bell (Chairman) 
 John M. Fahey, Jr                
 Richard (“Casey”) Sheahan        
 Liliann Annie Zipfel             |

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| EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION |

Summary Compensation Table The following table provides information for fiscal 2024, 2023, and 2022, concerning the compensation paid by Johnson Outdoors to the individual who served as our principal executive officer during fiscal 2024 and the person who served as our principal financial officer in fiscal 2024. We refer to these two executive officers as our NEOs in this Proxy Statement.

| Name and Principal Position                |     |   Fiscal 
     Year |     |   Salary |     |   Bonus(1) |     |      Stock 
  Awards(2) |     |     Non-Equity 
 Incentive Plan 
       Comp.(3) |     |  All Other 
   Comp.(4) |     |      Total |
| Helen P. Johnson-Leipold                   
 Chairman and Chief Executive Officer       |     |     2024 |     | $893,918 |     |         $— |     | $1,150,016 |     |             $— |     |    $37