Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000092122-25-000032
Chunk: 66

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 66
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 requirements (Compliance Period).

4 As of March 1, 2025, Mr. Womack exceeds his CEO stock ownership requirements with over three years remaining in his Compliance Period.

| Position                
 CEO                     |     | Stock ownership requirement,      
 as a multiple of base salary rate |     | Compliance 
 Period     
 5 years    |     | Compliance status                                    
 As of March 1, 2025, all NEOs met their requirements |
|:------------------------|:----|:----------------------------------|:----|:-----------|:----|:-----------------------------------------------------|
| Other NEOs and          
 Executive Officers      |     |                                   |     |            |     |                                                      |
| Other Senior Executives |     |                                   |     |            |     |                                                      |

The Committee adopted stock ownership requirements applicable to all officers throughout Southern Company. These officers are subject to varying ownership requirements between 1 to 2.5 times their base salary based on their title and responsibility.

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

The Compensation Committee is made up of independent Directors of the Company who have never served as executive officers of the Company. During 2024, none of the Company’s executive officers served on the Board of Directors of any entities whose executive officers serve on the Compensation Committee.

#### Southern Company2025 Proxy Statement63
Executive Compensation Tables

#### Summary Compensation Table
| Name                                               
 (a)                                                |     |      |     |           | Year 
  (b) |     |            | Salary 
 ($)    
 (c)    |     |            | Stock  
 Awards 
 ($)    
 (d)    |     |           | Non-Equity     
 Incentive Plan 
 Compensation   
 ($)            
 (e)            |     |           | Change in        
 Pension Value    
 and Nonqualified 
 Deferred         
 Compensation     
 ($)              
 (f)              |     |            | All Other    
 Compensation 
 ($)          
 (g)          |     |            | Total 
 ($)   
 (h)   | Total without 
 Change in     
 Pension Value 
 ($)           
 (i)           |            |
| Christopher C. Womack                              
 Chairman, President and                            
 CEO, Southern Company                              |     |      |     |           | 2024 |     |  1,490,577 |        |     | 11,725,994 |        |     | 3,334,500 |                |     | 7,142,735 |                  |     |    191,367 |              |