I have no idea where the information about Elsevier policies have come from but there is one assertion in this curious report that is so incorrect that I want to counter it. I have run journals for parts or all of the lists of four major companies over forty years. I have never published a journal the editor of which received no payment. Sometimes in the medical world the amounts were substantial. 

I know what I am talking about. I wrote the contracts. Sometimes but rarely the payment (at the editor’s request) was described as expenses - drawn upon for air fares - but usually they were clearly differentiated from expenses incurred in editing the journal and quite often the costs of a journal office (the editor’s assistant etc) were also likewise subject to a separate clause. 

Now I have never worked for Elsevier. Maybe Leo has special evidence. Please disclose this.

Anthony