Why Work at Southern Company?

Southern Company and its subsidiaries strive to be the employer of choice by offering a stable work environment, a culture that values diversity, inclusion and teamwork and a competitive pay and benefits package.

A career with Southern Company makes you part of the dependable delivery of electricity millions of lives depend on. Here, you can join with an organization that promotes economic growth in communities, and one that works hard to improve our environment. You'll experience a fulfilling career that is important, necessary and has its share of fun and camaraderie.

Some 26,000 Southern Company employees make a difference — every day — in the lives of their friends and neighbors and in their communities. You could be one of them.


	GI Jobs Southern Company is the top-rated utility and ranks 21st overall in the eighth annual list of the nation´s most military-friendly employers released this month by GI Jobs magazine.


	Freedom Award Southern Company was named a winner of the 2010 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award – the highest honor given by the Department of Defense to employers for support of employees who serve in the National Guard or Reserve.


	Southern Company Inducted in Co-Op Student Hall of Honor Southern Company has been inducted into the Cooperative Education Hall of Honor at the University of Cincinnati, birthplace of cooperative education in 1906. With more than 5,000 co-op students since the early 1920s, Southern Company has a long, deep history of turning promising students into valuable employees.


	For the fourth consecutive year, Southern Company has been recognized by Computerworld's "100 Best Places to Work in IT." This year, Computerworld ranked Southern Company #33. The company was recognized for its focus on building a family environment in the workplace, as well as its robust military recruiting program, the IT intellectual property program and annual IT awards program.