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
Chunk 77
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2024 but not payable until early 2025.

#### Column (c)
This column reflects employer contributions under the SBP and DCP. The amounts reported in this column also were reported in the All Other Compensation column in the Summary Compensation Table.

#### Column (d)
This column reports earnings or losses under the SBP and DCP on (1) compensation the NEOs elected to defer, (2) employer contributions and (3) prior earnings attributable to each accruing during 2024.

#### Column (f)
This column includes amounts that were deferred under the DCP and employer contributions under the SBP in prior years and, as applicable, reported as compensation in the Summary Compensation Table through 2023: (i) Mr. Womack: $105,111 (ii) Mr. Tucker: $269,222, (iii) Ms. Greene: $28,609 and (iv) Mr. Kerr: $300,882. These amounts have since been adjusted, pursuant to the terms of the DCP and the SBP for investment performance, deferrals and contributions.

Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control

This section describes and estimates payments that could be made to the NEOs serving as of December 31, 2024 under different termination and change-in-control events. The estimated payments would be made under the terms of Southern Company’s compensation and benefit program or the change-in-control severance program.

All of the NEOs are participants in the Severance Plan and the Benefits Protection Plan. As previously disclosed, the Company restated its change-in-control related compensation plans, including the Severance Plan and Benefits Protection Plan, effective August 15, 2022. To the extent not disclosed herein, refer to the Company’s 2022 proxy statement for a summary of the terms of such plans prior to the restatements. The amount of potential payments is calculated as if the triggering events occurred as of December 31, 2024 and assumes that the price of common stock is the closing market price on December 31, 2024.

#### Southern Company2025 Proxy Statement71

#### Executive Compensation Tables
Description of Termination and Change-in-Control Events

The following charts and narratives list different types of termination and change-in-control events that can affect the treatment of payments under the compensation and benefit programs. No payments are made under the Severance Plan unless, within two years of the change in control, the NEO is involuntarily terminated not for cause or voluntarily terminates for good reason.

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