There are tiers of editors - including both administrative and academic editors. The latter are rarely paid. For example, I'm on the editorial boards of three

There are tiers of editors - including both administrative and academic editors. The latter are rarely paid. For example, I'm on the editorial boards of three journals: Epidemiology, PLoS Computational Biology, and Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. I am compensated for none of them as an academic editor.