CASH 2017 Proxy Statement

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION (3) Includes $335,337 as a Vacation Payout (as defined below), $254,658 as a Company contribution to the Benefit Equalization Plan, $20,000 for director compensation, $10,600 as a Company contribution to the MetaBank Profit Sharing 401(k) Plan, $10,600 as a Company contribution to the Meta Financial Employee Stock Ownership Plan, and personal use of company owned auto, personal portion of country club membership costs, life insurance premiums and a gift card. During fiscal year 2017, the Company made a change in paid time off policy that restricts the number of vacation hours that may be carried over into the following year. As a result of this change, employees received a payment in fiscal year 2017 calculated by multiplying total vacation hours outstanding as of December 31, 2016, less forty (40) hours (to use as a starting bank for the new paid time off policy) by the then-current hourly rate (or hourly rate equivalent) of pay of the employee (“Vacation Payout”). (4) Includes $235,759 as a Company contribution to the Benefit Equalization Plan, $99,107 as a Vacation Payout (as defined in footnote 3 above), $20,000 for director compensation, $10,600 as a Company contribution to the MetaBank Profit Sharing 401(k) Plan, $10,600 as a Company contribution to the Meta Financial Employee Stock Ownership Plan, $10,816 as the personal portion of country club membership costs, life insurance premiums and a gift card. (5) Includes $104,299 as a Company contribution to the Benefit Equalization Plan, $20,000 as a Vacation Payout (as defined in footnote 3 above), $10,600 as a Company contribution to the MetaBank Profit Sharing 401(k) Plan, $10,600 as a Company contribution to the Meta Financial Employee Stock Ownership Plan, life insurance premiums and a gift card. (6) Ms. Thornsberry joined the Company and first became an executive officer on September 25, 2017. (7) Ms. Smith joined the Company and first became an executive officer on January 25, 2016. She separated from the Company effective August 15, 2017. (8) Includes severance pay in the amount of $815,000, $407,500 of which was paid in September 2017 and the remaining $407,500 is to be paid in January 2018 , a continuation of Company provided health benefits under COBRA for 13 months, which is valued at $13,490, a tax gross-up in the amount of $11,165, a Vacation Payout (as defined in footnote 3 above), life insurance premiums and a gift card. 32 Meta Financial Group, Inc. | 2017 Proxy Statement