---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-175269"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "KELYA"
cik: "0000055135"
company_name: "KELLY SERVICES INC"
filed_at: "2025-08-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T18:35:25.408708+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kelly Services names Chris Layden as President and CEO effective Sept 2, 2025; succeeds retiring Peter Quigley

## Summary
- Chris Layden appointed President and CEO, target start date September 2, 2025.
- Peter Quigley retires; remains strategic advisor and board member until May 2026.
- Layden's annual base salary set at $1,000,000; STIP target 125% of salary; 2025 STIP guaranteed at least $450,000.
- Sign-on cash bonus of $450,000; restricted stock grant valued at $4,000,000 vesting over three years (15%/35%/50%).
- Layden was previously COO of Prolink and spent nearly 20 years at ManpowerGroup in senior roles.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-175269
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: KELYA
- cik: 0000055135
- company_name: KELLY SERVICES INC
- filed_at: 2025-08-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55135/000119312525175269/0001193125-25-175269-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55135/000119312525175269/d920784d8ka.htm

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