Abstract:This paper investigated the influence of the original TMTs compensation incentives on real earnings management using samples of listed companies on GEM during 2009—2012. The empirical result is that original TMTs monetary compensation and nonpecuniary compensation have the Ushape relation with the level of real earnings management, which indicates the influences of bothsides on the level of real earnings management. While stockbased compensation shows a positive relation to real earnings management, indicating that the stockbased compensation is far from being higher, the level of real earnings management is lower, and blindly improving stockbased compensation will induce real earnings management.