Company: ACEL
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-018604
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Company: Accel Entertainment, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form: DEF 14A
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 its independent compensation consultant, and other factors considered appropriate by the Compensation Committee, including internal pay equity. During the year, the Compensation Committee may also evaluate and make compensation adjustments or grants of additional discretionary bonuses and/or long-term incentive awards to our NEOs and certain other eligible employees, as and to the extent deemed appropriate by the Compensation Committee. The Compensation Committee is supported by management and its independent compensation consultant, as further described below.

Role of Management

The Compensation Committee relies on input and recommendations of our Chief Executive Officer when evaluating factors relative to the compensation of the NEOs. Our Chief Executive Officer provides the Compensation Committee with his assessment of the performance of these individuals and his perspective on the applicable factors described above in developing his recommendations for their compensation, including salary adjustments, cash bonuses and equity incentives. The Compensation Committee discusses our Chief Executive Officer’s recommendations, with input from our independent consultant, and then approves or modifies the recommendations in collaboration with the Chief Executive Officer.

Our Chief Executive Officer’s compensation is determined solely by the Compensation Committee, which approves any adjustments to his base salary, cash bonus or equity incentives from year to year. The Compensation Committee reviews the Chief Executive Officer’s performance for the year and competitive market data from our independent consultant, and makes determinations regarding his compensation independently and without him present. As required by the NYSE listing standards and good corporate governance, the Chief Executive Officer does not participate in deliberations concerning, or vote on, his compensation arrangements.

In addition to recommendations put forth by our Chief Executive Officer, other members of our executive team are involved in the compensation process by assembling data to present to the Compensation Committee. Other members of our executive management team also may attend portions of the Compensation Committee meetings from time to time.

Role of the Independent Compensation Consultant

For 2024, the Compensation Committee engaged Aon’s Executive and Board Advisory Practice, a division of Aon plc (“ Aon ”), an independent compensation consultant, to provide independent executive compensation advisory

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services. Aon did not provide any other services to us in 2024 beyond its engagement as an advisor to the Compensation Committee on executive and director compensation matters.

Aon’s specific compensation consultation roles include, but are not limited to, the following:

• advising the Compensation Committee on director and executive compensation trends and regulatory developments;

• developing a peer group of companies for determining competitive compensation rates;

• providing a total compensation study for executives against executives at peer companies;

• providing advice to the Compensation Committee on corporate governance best practices, as