---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-092200"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AR"
cik: "0001433270"
company_name: "ANTERO RESOURCES Corp"
filed_at: "2025-09-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:52:29.252508+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CEO Kennedy: $1.125M base/130% target; CFO Krueger: $645K base/100%; Chairman retainer $75K+$290K; severance plan.

## Summary
- CEO Michael Kennedy base salary $1.125M with target annual incentive 130%; effective retroactive to Aug 14, 2025.
- CFO Brendan Krueger base salary $645,000 with target annual incentive 100%; effective retroactive to Aug 14, 2025.
- Chairman Benjamin Hardesty annual retainer increased to $75K cash (from $40K) and $290K equity (from $215K), retroactive to Aug 14, 2025.
- Executive Severance Plan adopted: participants include Kennedy, Krueger, Rady, Schultz; pays 3x (base + target bonus) plus 18-month health benefits.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-092200
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AR
- cik: 0001433270
- company_name: ANTERO RESOURCES Corp
- filed_at: 2025-09-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1433270/000110465925092200/0001104659-25-092200-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1433270/000110465925092200/tm2526630d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-092200.txt

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