How Is a Corporate Development Executive Paid?

This may sound like a weird question, but how is a corporate development executive compensated? I don't need to know your salary, ut i would love to know what drives your performance base compensation. In a public company, the more senior you are, actually the more of your compensation is tied to the stock performance and the financials of the overall business. So as a corporative executive or business development executive, you're not a sales person. You're really thinking long term and trying to say, think, what does ah, the market value about this company, and how can i grow that? Now, for good ady, that was different hings at different times. At some point