Jun. 1--Annual proxy statements detail more than cash and stock awards for executives. They also offer some interesting pearls about various perks that executives receive. Also, at some companies, executives and their relatives are the beneficiaries of some chummy deals.

Here are some tidbits from the proxies and other regulatory filings of those companies tracked in The Miami Herald's annual survey of executive compensation.

THE GLASS CEILING

The Miami Herald tracked the pay of 294 executives at 70 public companies.

Only 20 of those executives are women -- and no woman is at the helm. Only Miami's Interval Leisure Group can boast of having more than one woman in its executive ranks. It has three.

They are Chief Operating Officer Jeannette Marbert, General Counsel Victoria Kincke and Marie Lee, chief information officer.

MORE $$$ TO HANDLE

ALL THAT $$$

Ryder System boosted the amount it will pay for financial-planning and tax-preparation services for its top executives.

It now will pay up to $15,000 a year, up from $6,000 last year. Ryder cited the "complex structure of certain elements of our compensation" as the reason for the change.

PARING THE PERKS

Times are so tough at Office Depot that its board whacked some perks for its executives this year. Gone are financial counseling and income tax preparation services, matching contributions to the 401(k) and deferred-compensation plans,

and the 15 percent discount for buying company stock.

CEO Steve Odland received company matches of $13,650 under the 401(k) plan and $25,754 under the deferred compensation plan in 2008.

HOW MANY WHOPPERS WILL THAT BUY?

Burger King Holdings' top boss John Chidsey got a $50,000 "annual perquisite allowance to be used at his discretion" last year. Four other named executive officers each received a $35,000 allowance.

Meanwhile, Chidsey's personal use of the company's aircraft cost it about $141,000 last year.

CEO COMES (AND GOES)

WITH FURNITURE

Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems reported CEO Gary Macleod sold the company office furniture and equipment valued at $11,650 in 2007. Macleod was subsequently "relieved of his duties" and agreed to buy back the furniture and equipment for the same price.

POCKET CHANGE

Before Gen. Larry Ellis was removed as president and CEO in April, Pompano Beach body-armor producer Point Blank Solutions paid him a monthly stipend of $5,000. Former COO John C.