Company: JACK
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000807882-25-000004
Chunk: 31

Company: JACK IN THE BOX INC
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 31
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 oversees topics such as gender pay equity and human capital management. At the management level, corporate responsibility oversight is provided by our Chief Legal & Risk Officer and our Corporate Responsibility Steering Committee, who support our ongoing commitment to sustainability and the integration of corporate responsibility into our business operations. Our Corporate Responsibility Steering Committee is charged with setting the Company’s corporate responsibility strategy; overseeing communication with employees, investors and other stakeholders with respect to corporate responsibility matters; and monitoring and anticipating developments related to and improving our understanding of corporate responsibility matters. The Corporate Responsibility Steering Committee is made up of subject-matter experts in relevant disciplines across our organization such as human resources, operations, supply chain, investor relations, and legal and government affairs. The Committee reports to the Board of Directors at least annually and to the Nominating and Governance Committee at least biannually. We published a Sustainability Report in 2023, which can be found on our website at http://investors.jackinthebox.com . In response to a shareholder proposal submitted last year, we published our FY2023 Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas ("GHG') emissions on our website at http://investors.jackinthebox.com . We are in the process of identifying meaningful and reasonable short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals to reduce our GHG emissions using our FY23 emissions as a baseline, and we will disclose those resulting goals on the http://investors.jackinthebox.com website once they are finalized. 27 JACK IN THE BOX INC. | 2025 PROXY STATEMENT

| DIRECTOR COMPENSATION AND STOCK OWNERSHIP REQUIREMENTS |

DIRECTOR COMPENSATION AND STOCK OWNERSHIP REQUIREMENTS The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Committee”) reviews and makes recommendations to the full Board on the form and amount of compensation for our non-employee directors (the “directors”), as required by its charter. The following discussion of compensation and stock ownership requirements applies only to our independent directors. Accordingly, Mr. Harris, who is an employee of the Company and compensated as an executive officer, does not receive additional compensation for serving as a director. The Board believes that total compensation for directors should reflect the work required in both (i) their ongoing oversight and governance role and (ii) their continuous focus on driving long-term performance and shareholder value. The compensation program is designed to provide pay that is within a competitive range approximating the 50 th percentile of pay of directors in the Company’s Peer Group, which is selected each