Chief Operating Officer · LEE ENTERPRISES, Inc (LEE)

Nathan Bekke

A named executive officer of LEE ENTERPRISES in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2017 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$694,023

FY2024: $657,214

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 5, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Nathan Bekke compensation by year

LEE ENTERPRISES Summary Compensation Table · all 7 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as LEE ENTERPRISES reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2017FY2018FY2019FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$326,250$340,000$385,000$500,833$460,962$577,500$553,836
Bonus$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$93,800$49,450$54,936$250,000$125,000$73,783$122,149
Option awards$0$0$0$0$0$0$12,962
Non-equity incentive$85,050$63,160$124,510$355,484$60,512$0$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
All other$12,647$5,667$9,700$11,301$16,329$5,931$5,077
Total$517,747$458,277$589,146$1,117,618$662,803$657,214$694,023

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: LEE ENTERPRISES, Inc DEF 14A filed March 5, 2026, accession 0000058361-26-000024, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the LEE ENTERPRISES, Inc filed document, accession 0000058361-26-000024. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 5, 2026.

$518K
$458K
$589K
$1.1M
$663K
$657K
$694K
FY17
FY18
FY19
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU8,394$47,510—
RSU6,995$39,592—
RSU3,636$20,580—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in LEE ENTERPRISES, Inc's FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

LEE ENTERPRISES’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Kevin MowbrayPresident and Chief Executive Officer$1,151,667
Nathan Bekke · this pageChief Operating Officer$694,023
Timothy MillageVice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer$612,442

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