Thomas A. Fanning

2021

In 2021, Thomas A. Fanning earned a total compensation of $21.2M as Chairman, President and CEO, Southern Company at Southern Company, a 5% decrease compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings$1,689,005
Non-Equity Incentive Plan$2,842,400
Salary$1,582,692
Stock Awards$14,902,407
Other$227,055
Total$21,243,559

Fanning received $14.9M in stock awards, accounting for 70% of the total pay in 2021.

Fanning also received $1.7M of change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings, $2.8M in non-equity incentive plan, $1.6M in salary and $227.1K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2021, Thomas A. Fanning's compensation ranked 293rd out of 12,397 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Fanning earned more than 97.6% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
293
out of 12,397
98th
Division
Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, And Sanitary Services
21
out of 683
97th
Major group
Electric, Gas, And Sanitary Services
4
out of 266
99th
Industry group
Electric Services
4
out of 76
95th
Industry
Electric Services
4
out of 76
95th

Pay ratio

Thomas A. Fanning's Pay$21,243,559
Median Employee's Pay$132,450
Pay Ratio

160

to 1

In 2021, the annual total compensation of Thomas A. Fanning was $21,243,559.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at Southern Company was $132,450.

The ratio of Thomas A. Fanning's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 160 to one.

Source: SEC filing on April 15, 2022.

Fanning's colleagues

We found six more compensation records of executives who worked with Thomas A. Fanning at Southern Company in 2021.

2021

W Bowers

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Chief Executive Officer

2021

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Southern Company

Chief Executive Officer

2021

Mark Crosswhite

Southern Company

Chief Executive Officer

2021

Andrew Evans

Southern Company

Chief Financial Officer

2021

Stephen Kuczynski

Southern Company

Chief Executive Officer

2021

Daniel Tucker

Southern Company

Chief Financial Officer

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