---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-22-018622"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BBSI"
cik: "0000902791"
company_name: "BARRETT BUSINESS SERVICES INC"
filed_at: "2022-09-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T08:58:19.298365+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Barrett Business Services appoints Joseph S. Clabby to board

## Summary
- Board expanded from 8 to 9; Clabby effective Sept 16, 2022, until 2023 annual meeting.
- Clabby retired from Chubb; 20+ years at ACE/Chubb in senior executive roles.
- Appointed to Risk Management and Audit & Compliance committees.
- Director compensation: $65,000 annual retainer; $5,000 (Risk) and $7,500 (Audit) committee retainers; $79,178 in RSUs vesting July 1, 2023.
- No related-party transactions or family relationships with any executive officer or director.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-22-018622
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BBSI
- cik: 0000902791
- company_name: BARRETT BUSINESS SERVICES INC
- filed_at: 2022-09-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/902791/000095017022018622/0000950170-22-018622-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/902791/000095017022018622/bbsi-20220916.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-22-018622
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-22-018622.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-22-018622.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Joseph S. Clabby was appointed as Director at BARRETT BUSINESS SERVICES INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On September 16, 2022, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Barrett Business Services, Inc. (the "Company"), approved an increase in the number of positions on the Board from eight to nine and appointed Joseph S. Clabby to fill the vacancy resulting from the increase, effective September 16, 2022, to serve until the Company's 2023 annual meeting of stockholders, at which time he is expected to stand for re-election.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/902791/000095017022018622/0000950170-22-018622-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.