This study analyses the relation between executive remuneration and corporate governance in Brazilian listed firms. This topic is not new and the number of papers on this subject has been increasing over time. However, the literature on executive remuneration is not vast in Brazil when compared to the international market, because data is not easily available. This work contributes to the literature by building and analyzing the largest dataset (regarding the number of companies and years) on executive remuneration of Brazilian listed companies. Our results indicate that, after controlling for firm characteristics and considering corporate governance as an aggregate variable, companies with better governance pay a higher remuneration to their executives, both in absolute and relative terms. This result seems contrary to the international literature. However, when governance is analyzed more broadly, we find that disclosure and ownership structure are positively related with executive remuneration, while board practices and shareholder rights have a negative relation with remuneration.