Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000092122-25-000032
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Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: PRE 14A
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|                                                                                                                                                                                                            |     | Stan Connally |
| Executive Vice President and COO of Southern Company                                                                                                                                                       |     |               |
|                                                                                                                                                                                                            |     | Kim Greene    |
| Chairman, President and CEO of                                                                                                                                                                             
 Georgia Power                                                                                                                                                                                              |     |               |
|                                                                                                                                                                                                            |     | Jim Kerr      |
| Chairman, President and CEO of                                                                                                                                                                             
 Southern Company Gas                                                                                                                                                                                       |     |               |

| 2024 Performance Against Key Metrics                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
 4Achievedthe top of our adjusted EPS guidance range with payout at 176% of target                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 4Exceededour annual operational goals for customer experience and satisfaction, culture and generation reliability and sustainability goals with a calculated payout of 177% of target for our CEO                                                                                      
 4Deliveredon our objective to provide long-term value to stockholders with top quartile TSR and ROE results and exceeding target on our GHG Reduction Metric with relative TSR payout at 168% of target, ROE payout at 180% of target and GHG Reduction Metric payout at 136% of target |

#### Southern Company2025 Proxy Statement41
Letter from the Compensation and Talent Development Committee

To our Fellow Stockholders:

Southern Company made history in 2024. Through a bold commitment to collaboration and innovation, we completed the expansion of Plant Vogtle - now the nation's largest generator of clean energy. In the face of Hurricane Helene, the most destructive storm in Georgia Power Company's history, our teams successfully undertook a monumental effort to restore service to nearly 1.5 million impacted customers.

With the oversight of our Committee and the entire Board, the Company's executive leadership team is committed to working as One Team across Southern Company and prioritizing our customers as we invest in a bright energy future. We believe our comprehensive total rewards programs are aligned to support our business strategy and to position the Company to achieve long- term, sustainable value.

#### Compensation Committee Oversight and Engagement
During 2024, we remained actively engaged in our oversight responsibilities for executive compensation, leadership and talent development. We are committed to aligning pay with performance each year; hiring, developing and retaining a qualified pool of talent; and promoting alignment of our compensation program with the Company’s long-term strategy and stockholders’ expectations. We maintained our active involvement in stockholder outreach, which includes independent Director participation in key engagements and regular updates from management.

#### CEO Pay for Performance
4 We believe our compensation plan design works as intended to align CEO performance with the long