BBC to Reveal Stars Earnings

[anonymous-user]

nikaiyo2 said:

How is Alan Yentob on £200-£250k per year, as a presenter? WTF does he actually present?

He works damned hard:-
The BBC last night said Mr Yentob was paid for presenting and producing 12 episodes of Imagine last year, and that this involved a large amount of “research” for the show.

[The Mad Monk]

48k said:

Mojooo said:

Much as I like Huw Edwards - 550k for doing the news? Fark.

No. 550k for:
- being the main presenter of the Ten O'Clock News on BBC One, considered the corporation's flagship news broadcast and the most watched news programme in Britain.
- presenting the BBC News at Five O'Clock on the 24-hour BBC News channel
- presenting programmes such as the Festival of Remembrance, Trooping the Colour, the State Opening of Parliament, General Election special and the referendum special
- contributing to Breakfast News, One O'Clock News, Newsnight and Panorama
- presenting documentaries on classical music, religion and Welsh history, including presenting in Welsh since he is a native Welsh speaker,

He is a senior bi-lingual news journalist at the BBC and a trusted anchor for many of the flagship programmes and special events coverage. He's not just some vacuous braindead chap reading an autocue a couple of times a day.

Mojooo said:

You could probably find 2000 decent people willing to do it for 150k let alone 300k.

You won't find 2000 people the BBC would trust to do all of the above.

Bi-lingual? You avin a larf? His other language is Welsh! What use is that?

[Halmyre]

Alex Jones on 400k?!? WT absolute F???

[Mojooo]

48k said:

Mojooo said:

Much as I like Huw Edwards - 550k for doing the news? Fark.

No. 550k for:
- being the main presenter of the Ten O'Clock News on BBC One, considered the corporation's flagship news broadcast and the most watched news programme in Britain.
- presenting the BBC News at Five O'Clock on the 24-hour BBC News channel
- presenting programmes such as the Festival of Remembrance, Trooping the Colour, the State Opening of Parliament, General Election special and the referendum special
- contributing to Breakfast News, One O'Clock News, Newsnight and Panorama
- presenting documentaries on classical music, religion and Welsh history, including presenting in Welsh since he is a native Welsh speaker,

He is a senior bi-lingual news journalist at the BBC and a trusted anchor for many of the flagship programmes and special events coverage. He's not just some vacuous braindead chap reading an autocue a couple of times a day.

Mojooo said:

You could probably find 2000 decent people willing to do it for 150k let alone 300k.

You won't find 2000 people the BBC would trust to do all of the above.

Sorry Huw

Although I reckon all of that work could be done by 3 people for possibly less.

I do agree he is good

But given that the BBC is almost 'tax payer funded' I think a lot of us would put up for something a bit less polished if the licence fee was reduced.

[Mr-B]

Halmyre said:

Alex Jones on 400k?!? WT absolute F???

Don't look at Claudia Winkleman then, highest paid female.

[Halmyre]

Mr-B said:

Halmyre said:

Alex Jones on 400k?!? WT absolute F???

Don't look at Claudia Winkleman then, highest paid female.

Absolutely.

Everybody however has had their attention diverted to the gender payment gap instead of concentrating on the main issue - are these salaries good value for money?

[chow pan toon]

Mojooo said:

300k max for any of them - a good wage in London

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/corbyn-bbc-salaries-cut-gary-lineker-chris-evans-slash-labour-win-a7849696.html

Corbyn wants them limited to 320k. Funny how it isn't the politics of envy when PH agrees with the targets.

[ClaphamGT3]

With one or two exceptions, they are average - though not especially good - salaries for London professionals. I'm surprised they are t on more and assume that many top up with other work.

Huw Edwards 'overpaid' on £550k pa?! Get real; the guy is the key anchor for all BBC main TV news slots, covers all ceremonial/national significance broadcasts and produces documentary content galore - all for the same as a salaried partner in a reasonable sized London law firm.

What really annoys me is that the BBC pandered to the Daily Mail reading little englanders and published this.

[Challo]

The issue is that we do not what ITV, Sky, Channel4 are paying their presenters, newsreaders, etc to see if the BBC are a lot cheaper than anyone else.

I don't have an issue with the salaries. I think in most cases we get pretty goood value for money out of the BBC for that licence fee.

[ukaskew]

Challo said:

The issue is that we do not what ITV, Sky, Channel4 are paying their presenters, newsreaders, etc to see if the BBC are a lot cheaper than anyone else.

I don't have an issue with the salaries. I think in most cases we get pretty goood value for money out of the BBC for that licence fee.

I think it's common knowledge that the BBC pay a fair bit less for equivalent roles. A few on the list have today eluded to previously being offered at least 2X their BBC salary to move to a commercial station.

I imagine if ITV were for some reason forced to publish such a list it would be eye watering to say the least.

Also, compare this to the recent news story about VC pay at Universities, one was on £450k (with an 11% pay rise this year) and there were something like 70 staff earning £150k+ at one...and that's at least partly coming directly from tuition fees.

A few anomalies aside the BBC pay seems to be a non story.

Edited by ukaskew on Wednesday 19th July 23:11

[FlybyWyre]

As a very public company the BBC should have declared years ago.
It is a bit like the way a 3rd world country works.
A few on major income and a mass just getting by.

Chris Evans has written a few books about his amazing life (income) I came to the conclusion that even he cannot understand why the BBC throws so much money at him.

A free market is a free market and making salaries public or otherwise does not prevent others from offering better deals if they are worth it.

I spent years watching bad comedians, game show presenters and various other 'celebrities' on what I believed to be over the top pay. Now it has been confirmed.

Thankfully there is more choice now.

The Beeb has amazing photographers and sound men. To me that is their forte.

They should give some new talent a chance. How difficult can it be to present a bought in international games show for instance.

Top Gear was available in any country I have been to. Income from that show must have been amazing. Probably still is.

The Beeb created a 'politically correct' removal of the team that created a world wide show and an income that was beneficial to the licence payers and then put a person who admits in his autobiography that he was never a petrolhead and has a very Marmite 'personality' to almost collapse the golden goose. Amazing.

Then pay 6 million for a radio show that has very little international exposure.

Value for money?

[AJL308]

ClaphamGT3 said:

With one or two exceptions, they are average - though not especially good - salaries for London professionals. I'm surprised they are t on more and assume that many top up with other work.

Huw Edwards 'overpaid' on £550k pa?! Get real; the guy is the key anchor for all BBC main TV news slots, covers all ceremonial/national significance broadcasts and produces documentary content galore - all for the same as a salaried partner in a reasonable sized London law firm.

What really annoys me is that the BBC pandered to the Daily Mail reading little englanders and published this.

But he's not a "salaried partner in a reasonably sized London law firm". He's a state employee paid for with tax money doing a job that lots of other people in his industry could do just as well.

And, again, why the comparison with the private sector? The BBC has gone out of it's way for decades to make the point that it is totally different to the private sector. It can't have it both ways.

Edited by AJL308 on Wednesday 19th July 23:22

[AJL308]

Challo said:

The issue is that we do not what ITV, Sky, Channel4 are paying their presenters, newsreaders, etc to see if the BBC are a lot cheaper than anyone else.

I don't have an issue with the salaries. I think in most cases we get pretty goood value for money out of the BBC for that licence fee.

You honestly and genuinely have no issue with someone getting paid £700k+ a year at public expense to talk to people on the telephone for a couple of hours a day, five days a week? Really? Seriously?

[castex]

FlybyWyre said:

As a very public company...

Top Gear was available in any country I have been to. Income from that show must have been amazing. Probably still is.

The Beeb created a 'politically correct' removal of the team that created a world wide show and an income that was beneficial to the licence payers and then put a person who admits in his autobiography that he was never a petrolhead and has a very Marmite 'personality' to almost collapse the golden goose. Amazing.

Value for money?

Unlike the others, BBC has values. It represents the good people. And the others. The people. It shows them how to behave; as such, Clarkson has no place within the organisation.

[cuprabob]

AJL308 said:

Challo said:

The issue is that we do not what ITV, Sky, Channel4 are paying their presenters, newsreaders, etc to see if the BBC are a lot cheaper than anyone else.

I don't have an issue with the salaries. I think in most cases we get pretty goood value for money out of the BBC for that licence fee.

You honestly and genuinely have no issue with someone getting paid £700k+ a year at public expense to talk to people on the telephone for a couple of hours a day, five days a week? Really? Seriously?

You're underselling him as he does Eggheads too and not to forget Points of View

[AJL308]

castex said:

FlybyWyre said:

As a very public company...

Top Gear was available in any country I have been to. Income from that show must have been amazing. Probably still is.

The Beeb created a 'politically correct' removal of the team that created a world wide show and an income that was beneficial to the licence payers and then put a person who admits in his autobiography that he was never a petrolhead and has a very Marmite 'personality' to almost collapse the golden goose. Amazing.

Value for money?

Unlike the others, BBC has values. It represents the good people. And the others. The people. It shows them how to behave; as such, Clarkson has no place within the organisation.

I did actually support the BBC in how they handled Clarkson. They didn't have a choice in the matter. He hit a fellow employee and verbally abused him. Had they kept him on and he'd done it again they'd have been screwed and would have been taken to the cleaners had the victim sued. Also, had they not acted and then took action towards another employee in similar circumstances they would have been up against allegations that they were victimising the other guy. Could you imagine a similar incident where the one getting violent is a lowly paid, racial minority in a totally replaceable job? You sack him then have to justify to his employment tribunal as to why you let the middle-aged, highly paid white bloke get away with it but not him? PR bloodbath.

[2.5pi]

castex said:

Unlike the others, BBC has values. It represents the good people. And the others. The people. It shows them how to behave; as such, Clarkson has no place within the organisation.

I like a lot of BBC output & see no problem in them being required to tell folk what they pay, every company in the country has to give similar detail on Directors,What I don't understand is how we arrived at Steve fking Wright earning anything over minimum wage #fkingidiot

[Not-The-Messiah]

So am I correct in thinking that Chris Evans and Gary Linker are the highest paid public sector workers in the country? And not just by a small margin.

More that a 100 nurses working god knows how may hours a year. Far more than top NHS surgeons. And many more times the PM and anyone responsible for negotiating brexit. The most important negotiation in living memory that will directly affected everyone.

What a joke.

[cuprabob]

Not-The-Messiah said:

So am I correct in thinking that Chris Evans and Gary Linker are the highest paid public sector workers in the country? And not just by a small margin.

More that a 100 nurses working god knows how may hours a year. Far more than top NHS surgeons. And many more times the PM and anyone responsible for negotiating brexit. The most important negotiation in living memory that will directly affected everyone.

What a joke.

Indeed, but on the plus side at least the highest paid actor plays a Nurse.

I believe some of the people in charge of our hard pressed councils will earn a lot more than the PM. Although there is some opportunity to make money after you leave office. Tony Blair and Gideon Osborne do OK

[Mojooo]

chow pan toon said:

Mojooo said:

300k max for any of them - a good wage in London

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/corbyn-bbc-salaries-cut-gary-lineker-chris-evans-slash-labour-win-a7849696.html

Corbyn wants them limited to 320k. Funny how it isn't the politics of envy when PH agrees with the targets.

People turn their noses up at Chief Executives of councils earning 150-200k - yet they are responsible for possibly thousands of employees and hundreds of services affecting possibly millions of people. I don't see how being a news presenter is in any way comparable.

I don't have a problem with the private sector profits in the same way as I am not forced to consume (the majority) of private sector products.

Also the BBC is large enough to train and churn people for these types of headlining roles.