Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000092122-25-000036
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Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
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54 for more information on the calculation of relative TSR and the results shown in this Pay Versus Performance disclosure.

Descriptions of Relationships Between CAP and Certain Financial Performance Measure Results The following charts provide, across the Covered Years, a clear description of the relationships between (1) our cumulative TSR and the cumulative TSR for the peer group reflected in the PVP Table above, (2) PEO CAP and the financial performance measures results set forth in columns (f), (h) and (i) of the PVP Table above and (3) non-PEO NEO CAP and the financial performance measures results set forth in columns (f), (h) and (i) of the PVP Table above.

Compensation Actually Paid v. Southern TSR & Peer Group TSR

#### 78Southern Company2025 Proxy Statement

#### Executive Compensation Tables
| Compensation Actually Paid vs. Net Income |     | Compensation Actually Paid vs. 1-Yr rTSR* |

* As noted above, our 2024 LTI program utilized and applied significant weighting to our 3-year relative TSR metric, rather than the 1-year relative TSR metric shown. For more information, see page 54 .

Most Important Performance Measures This table provides what the Company believes represent the most important financial performance measures (including relative TSR) we used to link CAP for our PEO and non-PEO NEOs for 2024 to our performance for 2024.

| 1-year Relative TSR      |
| 3-year Relative TSR      |
| Return on Equity (ROE)   |
| Earnings per Share (EPS) |
| GHG Reduction Metric     |

#### Southern Company2025 Proxy Statement79
Audit Committee Matters

#### Audit Committee Report
The Audit Committee oversees the Company’s financial reporting process on behalf of the Board of Directors. Management has the primary responsibility for establishing and maintaining adequate internal controls over financial reporting, including disclosure controls and procedures, and for preparing the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In fulfilling its oversight responsibilities, the Audit Committee reviewed and discussed the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries and management’s report on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting in the 2024 annual report with management. The Audit Committee also reviews the Company’s quarterly and annual reporting on Forms 10-Q and 10-K prior to filing with the SEC. The Audit Committee’s review process includes discussions of the quality, not just the acceptability, of the accounting principles, the reasonableness of significant judgments and estimates and the clarity of