---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000055135-25-000004"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KELYA"
cik: "0000055135"
company_name: "KELLY SERVICES INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T22:28:45.938350+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kelly Services Q4 revenue $1.2B, organic +4.4%; CEO Quigley to retire by end of 2025

## Summary
- Q4 GAAP operating loss $56.7M on $80.8M impairment; adjusted operating income $29.2M, up 32% YoY.
- Q4 adjusted EBITDA $43.5M (+34% YoY), margin 3.7% (+110bps); FY adjusted EBITDA $143.5M (+31%), margin 3.3% (+100bps).
- Full-year revenue $4.3B (-10.4% reported); organic +0.5%; MRP acquisition contributed 5.9%.
- CEO Peter Quigley plans to retire in 2025 upon appointment of successor; board initiating search.
- Company expects organic revenue growth and adjusted EBITDA margin expansion in FY2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000055135-25-000004
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KELYA
- cik: 0000055135
- company_name: KELLY SERVICES INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55135/000005513525000004/0000055135-25-000004-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55135/000005513525000004/kelya-20250213.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000055135-25-000004
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000055135-25-000004.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Peter Quigley departed as President and Chief Executive Officer at KELLY SERVICES INC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On February 12, 2025, Peter Quigley, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Kelly Services, Inc. (the “Company”), informed the Company's Board of Directors of his intention to retire as an officer in 2025 upon appointment of his successor.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55135/000005513525000004/0000055135-25-000004-index.htm

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