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The CEO and other members of the management team aren’t running the company you’re looking to invest in out of the goodness of their hearts. The managers of top companies are paid, usually huge sums of money, for taking on the job. In this section of the prospectus, investors find out exactly how much these people are being paid.

Reading the executive pay of CEOs can be like trying to solve some kind of financial puzzle. These top executives get paid in all sorts of ways, not just a base salary but a tangled quilt of bonuses and stock-based pay. Getting bogged down in the details is easy. Luckily, regulators have leaned on companies and forced them to simplify the way they explain executive pay. If you just want to get an idea of what the CEO was paid, head for the summary compensation table, where you find each executive listed along with his or her salary, bonus, stock awards, and all other pay listed clearly.