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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 eligible for some type of annual incentive program (including commissions and sales incentive plans). In addition, most employees are eligible to participate in the defined contribution and pension plans described in Appendix B - Benefit Plan Summary at page 102

The SEC’s rules for identifying the median compensated employee and calculating the pay ratio based on that employee’s annual total compensation allow companies to adopt a variety of methodologies, to apply certain exclusions and to make reasonable estimates and assumptions that reflect their employee populations and compensation practices. As a result, the pay ratio reported by other companies may not be comparable to the pay ratio reported above, as other companies have different employee populations and compensation practices and may utilize different methodologies, exclusions, estimates and assumptions in calculating their pay ratios.

#### Pay Versus Performance Disclosure
This disclosure has been prepared in accordance with the SEC’s pay versus performance rules in Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K under the 1934 Act (Item 402(v)) and does not necessarily reflect value actually realized by the NEOs or how the Compensation Committee evaluates compensation decisions in light of Company or individual performance. For a discussion of how the Compensation Committee seeks to align pay with performance when making compensation decisions, see the Compensation Discussion and Analysis beginning on page 41 .

The following tables and related disclosures provide information about (i) the total compensation of our principal executive officers (CEOs or PEOs) and our non-CEO NEOs (collectively, the Other NEOs) as presented in the Summary Compensation Table on page 64 , (ii) the compensation actually paid (CAP) to our CEOs and our Other NEOs, as calculated pursuant to Item 402(v), (iii) certain financial performance measures and (iv) the relationship of CAP to those financial performance measures.

#### 76Southern Company2025 Proxy Statement

#### Executive Compensation Tables
|        |     | PEO Pay             |            |     |         |            |     |                                        |            |     |         |            |     | Non-PEO Pay     |           |     |                  |           |     | Value of Initial Fixed 
 $100 Investment        
 Based On               |        |     |             |        |     |              |       |     | Percentile   |     |      |
| Fiscal 
 Year   
 (a)    |     | Summary             
 Compensation        
 Table Total for CEO 
 ($)                 
 (b)                 |            |     |         |            |     | CompensationActually Paid to CEO($)(c) |            |     |         |