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accession: "0001731122-23-000662"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DTST"
cik: "0001419951"
company_name: "Data Storage Corp"
filed_at: "2023-04-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T01:53:09.133137+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
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confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Data Storage awards 25,000 options and RSUs to Schwartz and Kempster; salaries to rise

## Summary
- Annual base salary for each officer: $215k in 2023, $225k in 2024, $250k in 2025.
- Each granted options to acquire 25,000 shares at 110% of grant-date closing price, vesting over 3 years, expiring 2033.
- Each granted 25,000 RSUs vesting in equal annual installments over three years from April 10, 2023.
- Grants made under the 2021 Stock Incentive Plan per previously disclosed March 1, 2023 compensation increase.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001731122-23-000662
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DTST
- cik: 0001419951
- company_name: Data Storage Corp
- filed_at: 2023-04-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1419951/000173112223000662/0001731122-23-000662-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1419951/000173112223000662/e6304_8-k.htm

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