FIRSTENERGY CORP

Human Capital

FirstEnergy focuses on a number of human capital resources, measures and objectives in managing its business, including through striving to achieve its core values.

FirstEnergy believes that creating a sense of belonging among our employees positions the company to deliver better service to customers, strengthen operational performance, and help create a work environment where employees feel valued and respected. FirstEnergy remains focused advancing a culture of belonging for employees.

During 2025, FirstEnergy continued to promote these values by:

•Refreshing our organizational values and defining the behaviors that bring them to life, which reinforces a culture of performance, inclusion, and engagement and aligns with our evolving business strategy;

•Sharing the results of our most recent employee engagement survey designed to capture our employees’ perspectives on their work experience and develop actionable plans, reinforcing transparency and ownership at every level, ensuring that feedback translates into meaningful change and strengthens our culture; and

•Supporting multiple employee business resource groups to further support our values through networking, mentoring, coaching, recruiting, development and community outreach. There are currently nine employee business resource groups across 21 chapters, which are open to all employees.

Safety

FirstEnergy employees have the power and responsibility to keep each other safe and eliminate life-changing events, which are injuries that have life-changing impacts or fatal results. Safety metrics, such as injuries that result in days away or restricted time and life-changing events, are regularly monitored, internally reported, and included in FirstEnergy’s annual incentive compensation program applicable to all employees to reinforce that a safe work environment is crucial to FirstEnergy’s success.

FirstEnergy continues to focus on mitigating life-changing event exposure to strengthen FirstEnergy’s safety-first culture and drive safer decisions from an engaged workforce who puts safety first. FirstEnergy is focused on identifying high energy risks and ensuring direct controls are in place. Leaders and employees receive safety training and reinforcement of energy-based safety concepts that are designed to improve job site hazard identification, communication and mitigation to ultimately prevent life changing events.

Employee Development

FirstEnergy’s employees are empowered to take ownership of their careers with increased transparency into FirstEnergy’s internal and external hiring process and availability of tools and processes that support career management, talent reviews, succession planning and leadership selection. FirstEnergy is committed to preparing its high-performing workforce for the future and helping employees reach their full potential, which includes developing employee skills and competencies and preparing aspiring, emerging and experienced leaders for future leadership responsibilities.

Understanding FirstEnergy’s rapidly changing industry and strategy is key to its employees’ ability to support FirstEnergy’s mission and meet its customers’ evolving needs. Key FirstEnergy development programs, which apply to eligible employees, include:

•Talent management, which includes a commitment to transparency in career management and development opportunities, consistent with FirstEnergy’s core values;

•Amentoring program that gives employees the opportunity to select a mentor from within the organization to promote enhanced learning, teamwork and collaboration;

•Educational opportunities through FirstEnergy’s "Educate to Elevate" program, providing access to post-secondary education and a path to both associate’s and bachelor’s degrees for employees; and launching an educational series, to deepen business literacy, strengthen engagement, and empowers employees to better understand the business and connect their roles to organizational success; and

•Workforce development programs that include an apprentice line worker program designed to attract technical entry-level talent to FirstEnergy.

Compensation and Benefits

FirstEnergy’s total rewards program is designed to attract, motivate, retain and reward employees for their role in the success of FirstEnergy. The base pay program is designed to balance an employee’s value to FirstEnergy in a manner that is commensurate with comparable jobs at peer companies. FirstEnergy aims to ensure that its internal policies and processes support pay equity.

The annual incentive compensation program is designed to align compensation with the achievement of near-term corporate and business unit objectives, as well as outstanding individual performance. Additionally, FirstEnergy’s long-term incentive compensation program is designed to reward eligible leaders for FirstEnergy’s achievement of longer-term goals intended to drive shareholder value and growth. In addition to base pay and incentive compensation plans, FirstEnergy offers a comprehensive benefits program, including healthcare, dental, prescription, vision, a 401(k) savings plan and a defined benefit pension plan to eligible employees.

Employees and Collective Bargaining Agreements

As of December 31, 2025, FirstEnergy had 11,186 employees, all of whom were located in the United States as follows:

As of December 31, 2025, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the Utility Workers Union of America and the Office and Professional Employees International Union collectively represented approximately 44% of FirstEnergy’s employees. There are currently 15 collective bargaining agreements between FE’s subsidiaries and its unions, which have multi-year contracts. In 2025, FE’s subsidiaries reached a new collective bargaining agreement with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 459.