Salaries for Clevel think CEO , CFO , etc . officers at publicly traded companies things on the stock market are generally publicly disclosed , as part of what is required to be a public company . You can look up the salaries of all of these people . However it will be a bit obscured , for lots of reasons . Their salaries are generally a combination of salary plus stock andor stock options , which is more complicated so lets not worry about that . So basically , most Clevel people get paid some combination of base salary some stock some bonus or other compensationAll of that together is regarded as their official compensation . Often , most of it is in stock andor bonuses due to how taxes work on those vs . how taxes work for salary , its all a bit of a game about how they get paid to maximize pay while minimizing taxes . OK , one more aspect . Many Clevel people also get to charge expenses to the company . This is a bit of a racket , but its at the end of the day , just another way to dodge taxes and such . pretty much , many Clevel people can charge some or all of their living expense to the company to pay . Be it their house , cars , travel , fun , dinners , etc . Again this is all known , nothing interesting , and just part of what they negotiate as their salary . It really isn ' t that interesting , everyone knows the score , knows the situation , and it is what it is