This paper introduces the theory and research result on the manager pay. The mutual effect between manager pay firm performance is analyzed, and the managerial shareholding has no significant effect on firm performance, but the managerial annual pay has significant positive effect on the firm performance in Chinese public companies. It is found that the board structure and the owner nature have different effect to the style of manager payment. Finally, we put forward some feasible suggestion of buillding up a set of payment mechanism for Chinese public companies.