Company: JACK
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000807882-25-000004
Chunk: 52

Company: JACK IN THE BOX INC
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 52
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 the Company’s pension plan (for Mr. Gordon).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| • |     | If termination is after the end of the fiscal year but before payment, the annual cash incentive award, subject to the Company’s achievement of performance goals.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |

If eligible to retire under a Company-sponsored retirement plan, in addition to the above, and consistent with the terms of our standard equity agreement, Corporate Officers (including all NEOs) are entitled to the following:

| • |     | Accelerated vesting of options equal to 5% additional vesting for each full year of service with the Company.                                                                                                        |
| • |     | In accordance with the vesting schedule of each award, prorated vesting of PSUs; and full vesting of time-vested RSUs.                                                                                               |
| • |     | A prorated annual incentive award based on the number of full reporting periods worked in the fiscal year before retirement, subject to the Company’s eligibility requirements and achievement of performance goals. |

If a NEO dies while employed by the Company, under the terms of the respective stock award agreements, all outstanding options and stock awards will become 100% vested on the date of his or her death (in the case of PSUs, subject to the number of periods completed during the performance period and actual performance achieved). The values of additional potential payments to the NEOs are provided in the section entitled “Potential Payments on Termination of Employment or Change in Control” of this Proxy Statement. 52 JACK IN THE BOX INC. | 2025 PROXY STATEMENT

| CD&A — VII. ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION INFORMATION |

Severance Plan for Executive Officers In February 2020, the Committee adopted the Severance Plan for Executive Officers (the “Executive Severance Plan”) effective March 9, 2020, that provides severance benefits to the Company’s CEO and other executive officers, in the event of an involuntary termination without Cause that constitutes a Qualifying Termination (as defined in the Executive Severance Plan, a “Non-CIC Qualifying Termination”) either before, or more than 24 months after, a change in control of the Company. The Executive Severance Plan provides for certain cash severance and other benefit payments contingent on the executive timely executing an effective general release of claims against the Company as described in more detail in the section entitled “Potential Payments on Termination of Employment or Change in Control” of this Proxy Statement. The Committee adopted the Executive Severance