Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000092122-25-000032
Chunk: 45

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: PRE 14A
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 to retain an experienced team, internal equity, time in position, recent base salary adjustments and individual performance. Individual performance includes, among other things, the individual’s relative contributions to the achievement of financial and operational goals in prior years.

4 Base salary adjustments are effective as of March 1 each year.

| Name            |     |           | 2023 
 ($)  |     |           | 2024 
 ($)  |
| Chris Womack(1) |     | 1,450,000 |      |     | 1,500,000 |      |
| Dan Tucker      |     |   790,763 |      |     |   838,208 |      |
| Stan Connally   |     |   781,279 |      |     |   820,343 |      |
| Kim Greene      |     |   900,004 |      |     |   945,005 |      |
| Jim Kerr        |     |   850,000 |      |     |   884,000 |      |

(1) Effective May 24, 2023, Mr. Womack's annual base salary increased from $990,000 to $1,450,000 in connection with his appointment as CEO of the Company.

#### Southern Company2025 Proxy Statement47

#### Annual Incentive Compensation (At Risk)

#### 2024 Annual Performance Pay Program (PPP)
The formula for computing PPP payouts is as follows:

| Base Salary |     | Target Award        
 Percentage          |     | Performance Goal Achievement(1) |     | PPP Award Earned |
|             |     | -% of Base Salary;  
 varies by pay grade |     | -% of target level; payout      
 ranges from 0% to 200%          |     |                  |

(1) PPP program includes an individual modifier that provides the Committee with the flexibility to adjust the total payout by +/- 10 percentage points based on individual performance.

#### 2024 PPP Goal Weighting
4 The Committee updated the goal weighting for 2024 to emphasize the Company's focus on operating as One Team and to facilitate collaboration and consistency across the business units:

• For the CEO, CFO and COO, EPS goal weight increased to 65% from 45% and operational goal weight increased to 35% from 30%

• For the other NEOs, EPS goal weight increased to 45% from 25%, the operational goal weight increased to 35% from