Company: ACEL
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-017502
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Company: Accel Entertainment, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: PRE 14A
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-Year Average

In March of 2023 and 2024, PSUs with three-year performance periods were granted. Actual payouts upon completion of the performance period are based on the average AEBITDA STI performance for three successive one-year periods, as approved by the Compensation Committee. These approved performance percentages will be used to calculate the three-year average at the end of the performance periods for the 2023 and 2024 PSU grants. Based on the approved AEBITDA performance levels, the Compensation Committee approved PSU performance percentages of 102.7% and 104.9% for the years 2024 and 2023, respectively.

#### Compensation Risk Assessment
The Compensation Committee is responsible for overseeing the risks relating to compensation policies and practices affecting senior management on an ongoing basis. The Compensation Committee believes our governance policies and compensation structure result in a compensation system that is not reasonably likely to lead to management decisions that would have a material adverse effect on Accel. The following features of our programs mitigate this risk:

• The Compensation Committee retains an independent compensation consultant to assist with annual compensation decisions;

• We utilize a mix of cash and equity incentive programs, and all equity awards granted to our NEOs are subject to multi-year vesting;

• We utilize a combination of equity award types;

• We cap STI and PSU payments at 200% of the target award;

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• We utilize competitive general and change-in-control severance programs to help ensure executives continue to work towards our stockholders’ best interests in light of potential employment uncertainty;

• Executive are subject to minimum stock ownership guidelines and limitations on trading in our securities; and

• Our executive officers are subject to a compensation recovery “clawback” policy that provides for the recovery of incentive-based compensation under certain circumstances in the event we restate our financial statements.

#### Additional Information

#### Stock Ownership Guidelines
We have a stock ownership policy for our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and other executive officers (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) promulgated under the Exchange Act) reporting directly to our Chief Executive Officer, including each of our NEOs. Our stock ownership policy requires each executive officer to acquire and hold a number of shares of our common stock equal in value to a multiple of such executive officer’s annual base salary, in each case, until he or she ceases to be an executive officer.

• CEO ownership guideline: 6x base salary

• Executive officers: 1x base salary