This COMPUSTAT file contain historical data on executive compensation for over 30,000 U.S. corporate executives for the 1992-2006 period. A separate dataset lists the 2,818 firms with which the executives are associated. There are a total of 219,317 executive-year records. These datasets are available for download in Stata, and SAS (version 8 for Unix) formats.
Stata format (in gzipped form):
Company names file | Executive compensation file 32 Mb
Company names file | Executive compensation file 73 Mb