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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000092122-25-000012"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "SO"
cik: "0000092122"
company_name: "SOUTHERN CO"
filed_at: "2025-02-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T23:41:49.173541+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Southern Company sets Connally as EVP/COO compensation: $870K salary, 90% bonus, 265% equity

## Summary
- Stanley W. Connally, Jr. appointed EVP & COO effective Jan 1, 2025.
- Base salary of $870,000 per year, effective March 1, 2025.
- Annual incentive compensation target set at 90% of base salary.
- Long-term equity incentive compensation target set at 265% of base salary.
- Compensation approved by Compensation Committee on February 5, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000092122-25-000012
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: SO
- cik: 0000092122
- company_name: SOUTHERN CO
- filed_at: 2025-02-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212225000012/0000092122-25-000012-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212225000012/so-20241205.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000092122-25-000012
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000092122-25-000012.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000092122-25-000012.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Stanley W. Connally, Jr. was appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at SOUTHERN CO.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
  source text: appointment of Stanley W. Connally, Jr. as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company, effective January 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212225000012/0000092122-25-000012-index.htm

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