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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001517375-24-000119"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "SPT"
cik: "0001517375"
company_name: "Sprout Social, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-10-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T23:18:21.429675+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sprout Social details CEO Barretto's $2.5M RSU grant and Howard's severance terms

## Summary
- CEO Barretto: $480k salary, target bonus 100% of salary, initial RSU grant $2.5M vesting 25% year 1 then quarterly.
- Executive Chair Howard: $350k salary, target bonus 50% of salary, severance 12 months base (18 months on CIC) plus health benefits.
- Barretto named Tier 1 covered executive under Severance Plan; Howard gets accelerated equity vesting on change-in-control termination.
- Amendment filed to disclose compensation terms for leadership transition originally reported April 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001517375-24-000119
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: SPT
- cik: 0001517375
- company_name: Sprout Social, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-10-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517375/000151737524000119/0001517375-24-000119-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517375/000151737524000119/spt-20240409.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001517375-24-000119.txt

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