General Counsel, Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer · B&G Foods, Inc. (BGS)

Scott Lerner

A named executive officer of B&G Foods in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2016 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

$1,351,400

FY2024: $1,373,345

3rd of 6 named executive officers at B&G Foods by FY2025 total.

6 named officers on file for B&G Foods, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 3, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Scott Lerner compensation by year

B&G Foods Summary Compensation Table · all 10 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as B&G Foods reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$432,600$449,904$467,900$481,937$495,190$510,046$525,347$543,734$565,484$582,449
Bonus$0$0$239,489$0$0$71,916$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$221,691$220,768$196,259$294,495$319,181$368,101$338,081$489,866$548,149$471,419
Option awards$86,519$89,979$93,577$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$476,033$0$0$194,924$586,800$0$0$398,666$232,075$202,797
Pension and deferred compensation$36,581$63,500$0$121,492$130,472$13,553$0$70,802$5,727$72,675
All other$17,950$18,100$18,250$19,960$20,110$20,260$20,710$21,460$21,910$22,060
Total$1,271,374$842,251$1,015,475$1,112,808$1,551,753$983,876$884,138$1,524,528$1,373,345$1,351,400

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: B&G Foods, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 3, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-039621, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the B&G Foods, Inc. filed document, accession 0001104659-26-039621. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 3, 2026.

$1.3M
$842K
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.6M
$984K
$884K
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.4M
FY16
FY17
FY18
FY19
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU42,701$179,344—
PSU42,701$179,344—
PSU26,648$111,922—
RSU17,765$74,613—
RSU5,802$24,368—

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

B&G Foods’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Kenneth KellerChief Executive Officer$4,589,619
Jordan GreenbergFormer Executive Vice President and President of Spices & Flavor Solutions$1,584,883
Scott Lerner · this pageGeneral Counsel, Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer$1,351,400
Bruce WachaExecutive Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer$1,350,743
Ellen SchumExecutive Vice President and President of Specialty$1,096,401
Andrew VogelExecutive Vice President and President of Meals$1,043,153

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