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Compensation Brief
Fiscal year 2024 · Filings through 2026-03-09

American Resources (AREC)

Fiscal year 2024 executive and director compensation, incentive-plan design, equity activity, and governance — every figure in this brief is traceable to its exact location in the company’s SEC filing — the document, the section, the page, and the table, linked directly.

$753,000
Mark Jensen total, FY2024
CEO pay percentile vs peers
CEO-to-median pay ratio
Say-on-pay support, latest vote
Companies that benchmark against AREC
No companies currently name AREC as a compensation peer in their most recent disclosure.

This is the complete answer, not a partial one — the list is never padded.

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Summary Compensation Table — fiscal year 2024

Named executive officerSalaryBonusStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentivePension / NQDCAll otherTotal
Mark Jensen$375,000$0$0$378,000$0$0$0$753,000
Chief Executive Officer
Thomas Sauve300,00000207,000008,417515,417
President
Kirk Taylor300,0000000026,363326,363
Chief Financial Officer
Tarlis Thompson197,8370000026,699224,536
Chief Operating Officer

A dash means the company reported no figure in that column; 0 means it reported zero. Figures are as printed in the filing, without adjustment.

Three-year trend — total compensation per named executive

Named executive officerFY2024 totalFY2023 totalFY2022 totalΔ FY20232024
Mark Jensen$753,000
Thomas Sauve515,417
Kirk Taylor326,363
Tarlis Thompson224,536

Prior-year totals as disclosed in the corresponding proxy; deltas are computed values with the derivation shown in the register.

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Equity transactions since the proxy statement was filed

No insider equity transactions reported since the proxy statement.

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Say-on-pay — recent advisory votes

Meeting yearMeeting dateForAgainstAbstainSupportOutcome
202612,115

Rows are labeled by annual-meeting year, with the meeting date beside each; the vote held in a given year acts on the prior fiscal year's compensation.

Say-on-pay — history, company's computation

Meeting yearMeeting dateApproval — company's computation
2026a

a. Voting standard not stated in the filing.

Approval percentages are the company's own reported computations under its own stated standard, not recomputed by Velarion. Where a company does not state a standard, none is assumed.

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Board fee structure and ownership guideline

Annual cash retainer
Annual equity retainer
Per board meeting fee
Committee chair fees (audit / comp / nom-gov)
Stock ownership guideline
10b

Chief executive pay against the peer group

Most recent fiscal-year chief executive compensation at each disclosed peer, taken from that company's own proxy statement.

RankCompanyFYChief executiveSalaryStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentiveTotal
1American Resources2024Mark Jensen$375,000$0$378,000$0$753,000

Each peer's compensation is from its most recently filed proxy; fiscal years differ by company. Each peer's figures come from its own filings; the subject company is highlighted. Peers whose chief executive compensation is outside our coverage universe are stated as such, never left blank.

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Source register

Each figure's location is given both for the eye (section · page · table · row · column) and for a script (table/row/column index and exact character span in the filed document). Any figure can be independently confirmed against the source.

#SupportsDocumentFiledAccessionLocation in document
1Section 01, Mark JensenDEF 14A2026-03-090001654954-26-001995Section “Executive Compensation Tables” · page 22. As printed: 753,000. Filing ↗machine: r3 · c25 · span 273423–273430
2Section 01, Thomas SauveDEF 14A2026-03-090001654954-26-001995Section “Executive Compensation Tables” · page 22. As printed: 515,417. Filing ↗
3Section 01, Kirk TaylorDEF 14A2026-03-090001654954-26-001995Section “Executive Compensation Tables” · page 22. As printed: 326,363. Filing ↗machine: r9 · c25 · span 289564–289571
4Section 01, Tarlis ThompsonDEF 14A2026-03-090001654954-26-001995Section “Executive Compensation Tables” · page 22. As printed: 224,536. Filing ↗machine: r12 · c25 · span 297422–297429
5Section 06, 2026 voteForm 8-K2026-03-090001654954-26-001995Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: —. Filing ↗
6American Resources (subject), Section 10b CEO totalDEF 14A2026-03-090001654954-26-001995CEO total compensation as printed in American Resources's own proxy. As printed: 753,000. Filing ↗machine: r3 · c25 · span 273423–273430