Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000092122-25-000032
Chunk: 82

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 82
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 Tucker    |     |                     |  4,041,840 |
| Stan Connally |     |                     |  4,025,425 |
| Kim Greene    |     |                     |  5,065,225 |
| Jim Kerr      |     |                     |  4,229,056 |

#### Equity Compensation Plan Information
The following table provides information as of December 31, 2024 concerning shares of common stock authorized for issuance under the Company’s equity compensation plans. As of December 31, 2024, other than as described below, no equity securities were authorized for issuance under equity compensation plans not approved by stockholders.

| Plan category                                          |     |              |     | Number of securities to  
 be issued upon exercise  
 of outstanding options,  
 warrants, and rights (a) | Number of securitiesremaining available forfuture issuance underequity compensationplans (excludingsecurities reflected incolumn (a)) (c) |
| Equity compensation plans approved by security holders |     | 3,235,560(1) |     |                          | 27,952,603(2)                                                                                                                             |

(1) Includes full-value awards outstanding under the 2011 Omnibus Plan, the Outside Directors Stock Plan for The Southern Company and the 2021 Omnibus Plan, including (a) 911,141 shares that may be issued pursuant to outstanding RSUs under the 2021 Omnibus Plan and (b) 2,314,232 shares that may be issued pursuant to outstanding PSUs under the 2021 Omnibus Plan, in each case, based on achievement of performance goals established by the Committee and assuming 100% of target PSUs will be earned.

(2) Includes 26,963,702 shares that may be issued pursuant to future awards under the 2021 Omnibus Plan. Also includes 295,042 shares which may be issued pursuant to future awards under the Outside Directors Stock Plan for The Southern Company; however, the Company intends to issue future director equity compensation awards under the 2021 Omnibus Plan and does not intend to issue any further awards under this plan.

#### Southern Company2025 Proxy Statement75

#### Executive Compensation Tables

#### Pay Ratio Disclosure
For 2024, we have calculated the CEO pay ratio to be 154 to 1. This ratio is a reasonable estimate calculated in a manner consistent with SEC rules based on our payroll and employment records as of December 31, 2024 and the methodology described below