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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-289150"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ADTN"
cik: "0000926282"
company_name: "ADTRAN Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-12-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T18:30:18.415324+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ADTRAN Holdings temporarily cuts CEO salary by 50%, other execs by 25%

## Summary
- CEO Thomas Stanton's base salary reduced 50%; CRO Wilson, CFO Dopfer, CTO Glingener, and NEO Harris reduced 25%.
- Salary reductions effective Nov 1, 2023 through July 31, 2024 (seven months).
- Wilson and Harris each granted stock options: Wilson 16,878 shares, Harris 13,067 shares, at $5.23 exercise price, vesting over 2 years.
- Reductions are part of a previously disclosed Business Efficiency Program due to macroeconomic uncertainty.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-289150
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ADTN
- cik: 0000926282
- company_name: ADTRAN Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-12-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/926282/000119312523289150/0001193125-23-289150-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/926282/000119312523289150/d551892d8k.htm

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