Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000092122-25-000036
Chunk: 37

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 37
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 | 170,000 |     |                             |      — |     |          | 310,000 |
| Dale E. Klein          |     |                                  | 140,000 |     |                   | 170,000 |     |                             |      — |     |          | 310,000 |
| David E. Meador        |     |                                  | 120,000 |     |                   | 170,000 |     |                             |      — |     |          | 290,000 |
| Ernest J. Moniz(5)     |     |                                  |  70,000 |     |                   |  85,000 |     |                             | 25,000 |     |          | 180,000 |
| William G. Smith, Jr.  |     |                                  | 145,000 |     |                   | 170,000 |     |                             |      — |     |          | 315,000 |
| Kristine L. Svinicki   |     |                                  | 120,000 |     |                   | 170,000 |     |                             |      — |     |          | 290,000 |
| Lizanne Thomas         |     |                                  | 131,667 |     |                   | 170,000 |     |                             |      — |     |          | 301,667 |
| E. Jenner Wood III(5)  |     |                                  |  70,000 |     |                   |  85,000 |     |                             | 25,000 |     |          | 180,000 |

(1) Includes amounts voluntarily deferred in the Director Deferred Compensation Plan.

(2) Represents the grant date fair market value of deferred common stock units.

(3) In connection with their retirements from the Board, the Company made charitable donations in the names of Mr. Moniz and Mr. Wood in 2024 to non-profit organizations of their choice. No non-employee Director of the Company received perquisites in an amount above the reporting threshold.

(4) Ms. Cooper was elected to the Board October 16, 2023 and received compensation for her 2023 service in January 2024.

(5) Mr. Moniz and Mr. Wood retired from the Board on May 22, 2024.

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