BBC Salaries

Apparently Tony Hall reckons publishing salaries for "talent" will be inflationary.

Surely the solution is that when these overpaid "stars" come asking for more you tell them to go whistle and find somebody who'll be content to earn five times the average salary.

 

Has anyone through face to face conversation ever asked someone how much they earn?

 

I learned that lesson a long, long time ago. Especially at work, one or the other of you will end up upset to find out that someone is earning more for the same work....

 

Public funded.

Should be fully transparent what all the 'talent' and desk jockeys earn.

 

Corbyn's policy of paying the highest paid person no more than 20 times the worst paid person seems fair to me. Lots of presenters would leave as despite the sort of money the pay get almost all could earn more somewhere else but I'm sure we would cope.


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This is something that struck me about the news. I heard several people say that if they didn't pay so much then the very best would leave to go to other channels but in all honesty would match of the day be a poorer TV show if somebody else was reading a script instead of jug ears? Would the new top gear have been worse without Evans?

 

£22 more than licence fee to go one way from Manchester to London (peak) via a profiting train company that's subsidised by our taxes

 

And?

it's still public funded.

Therefore it should be fully transparent where the money is being spent.

 

Do you think that policy should be extended to all workers who receive funding via the public purse?

Lots of companies that provide outsourcing for local authorities are pretty secretive about pay. At one I worked at you could be hauled into a disciplinary for ' revealing' your salary.


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I think MOTD could actually work better if they got knowledgeable fans from say the FSA to present.


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That's a grey area admittedly but what the private company pays their employees is their business.

As long as the tendering and procurement process is transparent and readily available then there isnt really an issue.

As long as we the great unwashed can see where the money is going with some accountabilty within the organisation when it inevitably ***** up then its winner winner chicken dinner.

I am very suprised though that you given your repuation for defending the most vunerable in society arent on the attack.

Given the higgest number of prosecutions for evasion are single mothers relying soley on benefits for an income.

 

Well if the BBC want some transparency on salaries how about the chief execs disclose theirs.

 

I think all companies spending public money should have to publish all details of salaries whether that is Capita or the BBC. I also think all organisations spending public money should be limited to the highest paid person not earning more than 20 times more than the worst whether that's Serco or the Dwp. If private companies don't want to do this don't bid for publicly funded Contracts. Your cherry picking of the BBC just seems to be influenced by a dislike of the organisation rather than caring about public money being spent.

Not sure what the end bit means TBF.

 

I think he is referring to women making up 70+% of convictions for not having a TV licence - it is very disproportionate but that could well be due to women being at home with the kids in the daytime when Capita come calling.

 

Wouldnt it be a better measure to say how much per appearance they get..

For example. Claudia. Winkleman, who ever she is, gets 400k per year. And Chris Evans gets 2.3m per year. But how many gigs so they have to do for that.

 

Chris Evans could ruin any show

 

There is a note of caution to sound in all this. The push for the BBC to do this has come from the Tories, who seem to have an axe to grind. The story may put pressure on the BBC to restrict salaries, which may result in lesser "talent" being recruited. You would imagine this would affect viewing figures. Additionally, several people are now considering legal action against the BBC for awards relating to alleged discrimination. Should all of this activity hasten the demise of the BBC, who will benefit? Why, Mr Murdoch of course. No wonder The Times (Murdoch-owned), among others are banging the drum for this disclosure.

 

And just think ..... for every one Chris Evans, you could have ten Laura Kuensbergs. Go for it BBC. That would really annoy everyone, wouldn't it.

 

Who never heard of them

 

I did used to believe this.

then look what happened when Toby Foster took a break from BBC radio Sheffield.

Like him or not you can't argue that the BBC's audience did not respond well to that situation.


In all honesty as much as I think Claudia Winkleman's wage is perverse and she is unfairly benefitting from some politically correct drive to give talented (less) women more money - I'm not part of her target audience for strickly and her radio show - there might be people who like her and feel their licence fee is well spent. (but god help the future of the species if there are - and then again there's people who think the office is funny so it takes all sorts).