Southern: Number of Employees 2010-2024 | SO

Interactive chart of Southern (SO) annual worldwide employee count from 2010 to 2024.
  • Southern total number of employees in 2023 was 28,100, a 1.44% increase from 2022.
  • Southern total number of employees in 2022 was 27,700, a 1.47% increase from 2021.
  • Southern total number of employees in 2021 was 27,300, a 1.44% decline from 2020.
  • Southern total number of employees in 2020 was 27,700, a 0.87% decline from 2019.
Southern Annual Employee Count
2023 28,100
2022 27,700
2021 27,300
2020 27,700
2019 27,943
2018 29,192
2017 31,344
2016 32,020
2015 26,703
2014 26,369
2013 26,300
2012 26,439
2011 26,377
2010 25,940
2009 26,112
Sector Industry Market Cap Revenue
Utilities Utility - Electric Power Distribution $90.756B $25.253B
Atlanta, GA-based Southern Company is one of the largest utilities in the United States. The company deals with the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity. Southern Company serves approximately nine million customers in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and other states, through several wholesale and retail electric and natural gas distribution units, with aggregate generating capacity of 46,000 megawatts, approximately 200,000 miles of electric transmission and distribution lines, with more than 80,000 miles of natural gas pipelines. The company owns Southern Power and Southern Company Gas along with other direct and indirect subsidiaries. Southern Power engages in developing, owning and managing power generation assets, including nuclear energy, renewable energy projects and selling electricity at market-based rates in the wholesale market.
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