CEO Jeremy Andrus was paid $5,138,736 in fiscal year 2025, ↑ up 14.3% from fiscal year 2024 (SEC filing 0001628280-26-027524 ↗): 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.
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| Named executive officer | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension / NQDC | All other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Andrus | $750,000 | $956,250 | $3,417,586 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $14,900 | $5,138,736 |
| Chief Executive Officer | ||||||||
| Michael Hord | 420,173 | 270,938 | 766,713 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 351,152 | 1,808,976 |
| Chief Financial Officer | ||||||||
| Jim Hardy | 417,629 | 0 | 1,062,795 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25,756 | 1,506,179 |
| Former President of Apption Labs Limited (d/b/a MEATER) | ||||||||
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.
| Named executive officer | FY2025 total | FY2024 total | FY2023 total | Δ FY2024→2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Andrus | $5,138,736 | $4,496,785 | — | ↑ +641,951 |
| Michael Hord | 1,808,976 | — | — | — |
| Jim Hardy | 1,506,179 | 1,411,825 | — | ↑ +94,354 |
Prior-year totals as disclosed in the corresponding proxy; deltas are computed values with the derivation shown in the register.
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Each company listed discloses COOK in its own benchmarking peer group, as disclosed in each company's most recent proxy statement within the last two proxy seasons. Two companies are therefore absent by design: one that named COOK in an earlier year and no longer does, and one whose own most recent disclosure is older than the last two seasons.
No insider equity transactions reported since the proxy statement.
| Executive | Award | Grant date | Threshold | Target | Granted | Maximum | Grant-date fair value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Hardy | RSU | 2025-04-10 | — | — | 7,109 | — | — |
| Jeremy Andrus | RSA | 2025-04-10 | — | — | 11,373 | — | — |
| Jeremy Andrus | PRSU | 2025-04-10 | — | 45,492 | — | — | — |
| Michael Hord | RSU | 2025-04-10 | — | — | 5,688 | — | — |
| Michael Hord | PSU | 2025-04-10 | — | 4,550 | — | — | — |
Grant-level vehicle detail not disclosed.
% performance-vested = PSU grant-date fair value ÷ (RSU + PSU + Options), a computed value with the derivation shown in the register.
| Executive | Award | Shares unvested | Exercise price | Market value unvested |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Hardy | RSU | 1,708 | — | $92,232 |
| Michael Hord | PSU | 1,682 | — | 90,828 |
| Jim Hardy | RSU | 7,109 | — | 383,886 |
| Jeremy Andrus | RSU | 11,373 | — | 614,142 |
| Michael Hord | RSU | 5,688 | — | 307,152 |
| Michael Hord | RSU | 562 | — | 30,348 |
| Michael Hord | RSU | 2,454 | — | 132,516 |
| Michael Hord | PSU | 4,550 | — | 245,700 |
| Jim Hardy | PSU | 7,109 | — | 383,886 |
| Jeremy Andrus | PSU | 45,492 | — | 2,456,568 |
| Jim Hardy | RSU | 1,778 | — | 96,012 |
The Company's compensation program is designed to attract, retain, and motivate executive officers by aligning their interests with those of stockholders through a mix of base salary, annual performance-based cash bonuses, and long-term equity incentives. The program emphasizes performance-based compensation, with annual bonuses tied to adjusted EBITDA and long-term incentives tied to relative TSR.
| CEO STI target (% of salary) | NaN% |
|---|---|
| CEO LTI target (% of salary) | — |
| Independent consultant | Meridian Compensation Partners |
| Clawback policy | The Compensation Committee is responsible for administering and overseeing the Company's compliance with the compensation recovery policy required by applicable SEC and NYSE Rules. Additionally, the 2022 Letter Agreement imposes certain clawback rights intended to maintain the retention incentives of the RSUs by mirroring their former vesting schedule. |
| Anti-hedging | The Insider Trading Policy prohibits covered persons and any entities they control from purchasing financial instruments such as prepaid variable forward contracts, equity swaps, collars, and exchange funds, or otherwise engaging in transactions that hedge or offset, or are designed to hedge or offset, any decrease in the market value of the Company's equity securities. |
| Anti-pledging | — |
| Meeting year | Meeting date | For | Against | Abstain | Support | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2026-06-09 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025 | 2025-05-20 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2024 | 2024-06-11 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2023 | 2023-05-30 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 2022-06-14 | — | — | — | — | — |
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.
| Meeting year | Meeting date | Approval — company's computation |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2026-06-09 | —a |
| 2025 | 2025-05-20 | —b |
| 2024 | 2024-06-11 | —c |
a. Voting standard not stated in the filing.
b. Voting standard not stated in the filing.
c. 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.
| Annual cash retainer | $75,000 |
|---|---|
| Annual equity retainer | $192,500 |
| Per board meeting fee | — |
| Committee chair fees (audit / comp / nom-gov) | 20,000 / 15,000 / 10,000 |
| Stock ownership guideline | — |
Most recent fiscal-year chief executive compensation at each disclosed peer, taken from that company's own proxy statement.
| Rank | Company | FY | Chief executive | Salary | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Traeger | 2025 | Jeremy Andrus | $750,000 | $3,417,586 | $0 | $0 | $5,138,736 |
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.
Answers are drawn only from the figures disclosed in this brief and cited to their location in the source filing. Where a figure required for an answer is not disclosed, that is stated rather than estimated.
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.
| # | Supports | Document | Filed | Accession | Location in document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Section 01, Jeremy Andrus | DEF 14A | 2026-04-27 | 0001628280-26-027524 | Section “Summary Compensation Table” · page 38. As printed: 5,138,736. Filing ↗machine: r3 · c7 · span 990514–990523 |
| 2 | Section 01, Michael Hord | DEF 14A | 2026-04-27 | 0001628280-26-027524 | Section “Summary Compensation Table” · page 38. As printed: 1,808,976. Filing ↗machine: r5 · c7 · span 1001765–1001774 |
| 3 | Section 01, Jim Hardy | DEF 14A | 2026-04-27 | 0001628280-26-027524 | Section “Summary Compensation Table” · page 38. As printed: 1,506,179. Filing ↗machine: r7 · c7 · span 1007787–1007796 |
| 4 | Section 03, Jim Hardy RSU | DEF 14A | 2026-04-27 | 0001628280-26-027524 | Section “Executive Compensation” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗machine: span 1052887–1052892 |
| 5 | Section 03, Jeremy Andrus RSA | DEF 14A | 2026-04-27 | 0001628280-26-027524 | Section “Executive Compensation” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗machine: span 1038272–1038278 |
| 6 | Section 03, Jeremy Andrus PRSU | DEF 14A | 2026-04-27 | 0001628280-26-027524 | Section “Executive Compensation” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗machine: span 1038693–1038699 |
| 7 | Section 03, Michael Hord RSU | DEF 14A | 2026-04-27 | 0001628280-26-027524 | Section “Executive Compensation” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗machine: span 1050972–1050977 |
| 8 | Section 03, Michael Hord PSU | DEF 14A | 2026-04-27 | 0001628280-26-027524 | Section “Executive Compensation” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗machine: span 1051691–1051696 |
| 9 | Section 06, 2026 vote | Form 8-K | 2026-06-09 | 0001628280-26-041919 | Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: —. Filing ↗ |
| 10 | Section 06, 2025 vote | Form 8-K | 2025-05-22 | 0001857853-25-000066 | Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: —. Filing ↗ |
| 11 | Section 06, 2024 vote | Form 8-K | 2024-06-17 | 0001857853-24-000077 | Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: —. Filing ↗ |
| 12 | Section 01 trend, Δ column (computed) | Computed | — | — | Δ = current-FY total − prior-FY total per named officer.machine: formula: Δ = FY(n) − FY(n−1) |
| 13 | Traeger (subject), Section 10b CEO total | DEF 14A | 2026-04-27 | 0001628280-26-027524 | CEO total compensation as printed in Traeger's own proxy. As printed: 5,138,736. Filing ↗machine: r3 · c7 · span 990514–990523 |
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