Company: ACEL
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-017502
Chunk: 61

Company: Accel Entertainment, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: PRE 14A
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In identifying our median employee, we continued to use the same employee chosen as of December 31, 2023, as there has been no change in our employee population or employee compensation arrangements that we reasonably believe would result in a significant change to our pay ratio disclosure.

To identify our median employee, we used a consistently applied compensation measure consisting of gross wages as reported on Form W-2, annualized for permanent employees who did not work for the entire year, excluding our Chief Executive Officer, for the 12-month period from January 1, 2024, through December 31, 2024. This compensation measure was consistently applied to all employees included in the calculation and reasonably reflects the annual compensation of our employees. We did not make any cost-of-living adjustment. We did not include any independent contractors or other non-employee workers in our employee population.

Using this approach, we selected the individual at the median of our employee population. We then calculated annual total compensation for this employee using the same methodology we use for our NEOs as set forth in our Summary Compensation table. With respect to the annual total compensation of our Chief Executive Officer, we used the amount reported in the “Total” column for fiscal 2024 in our Summary Compensation table.

SEC rules and guidance provide significant flexibility in how companies identify the median employee, and each company may use a different methodology and make different assumptions particular to that company. As a result, and as the SEC explained when it adopted these rules, in considering the pay-ratio disclosure, stockholders should keep in mind that the rules were not designed to facilitate comparisons of pay ratios among different companies, even companies within the same industry, but rather were designed to allow stockholders to better understand and assess each particular company’s compensation practices and pay-ratio disclosures.

#### Pay Versus Performance
In accordance with rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act, we provide the following disclosure regarding executive compensation for our principal executive officer (“ PEO ”) and Non-PEO NEOs and Company performance for the fiscal years listed below. The Compensation Committee did not consider the pay versus performance disclosure below in making its pay decisions for any of the years shown.

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| Year |     |                              |     | Summary Compensation Table Total for PEO(1) 
                                         ($) |     | Compensation Actually Paid to PEO(1),(2),(3) 
                                           ($ |     | Average Summary Compensation Table