Gary Lineker tops BBC pay league once more regardless of migrant tweet storm
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ary Lineker has once more topped the BBC’s pay league — incomes lots of of hundreds kilos and greater than double what the director-general takes residence.
Figures printed within the annual report present the previous Tottenham and England striker — who has strongly denied being the BBC presenter stated to have paid an adolescent greater than £35,000 for sexually specific pictures — obtained between £1,350,000 and £1,354,999 in 2022/23.
In April Lineker was on the centre of a Twitter storm and suspended from Match of the Day for one weekend after criticising the federal government’s language round migrants and evaluating it to the language utilized in Nazi Germany.
The subsequent highest paid presenter was Zoe Ball, who took residence between £980,000 and £984,999 for her Radio 2 breakfast present.
The BBC publishes expertise pay of anybody incomes above £178,000 in bands quite than precise figures although senior administration, together with director-general Tim Davie, have their precise pay printed and the report exhibits he was paid £528,000.
Other huge earners recognized within the report embrace DJ Greg James, paid between £395,000 and £399,999, and Northern Irish radio presenter Stephen Nolan who’s paid £400,000-£404,999.
Other present affairs stars incomes excessive sums embrace Laura Kuenssberg who was paid £305,000-£309,999, Sophie Raworth who obtained £365,000-£369,999 and George Alagiah who was paid £335,000-£339,999.
Lineker’s fellow Match of the Day star Alan Shearer earns between £445,000 and £449,999. Other excessive earners embrace Fiona Bruce, paid between £395,000 and £399,999, Lauren Laverne who made between £390,000 and £394,999 and BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty, who took residence a pay packet of £335,000 to £339,999.
The report defends BBC pay by saying it “operates within a fast-changing market with intense competition for talent and dramatic growth among some new media, streaming and digital technology companies offering highly attractive packages”.
It added that it tried to “balance market-competitive pay with the need to demonstrate value for money to the licence fee payer”.
The report additionally exhibits the BBC’s median gender pay hole has gone as much as 7.3 per cent and blames it partly on having to make use of extra know-how consultants — an business it says has “higher proportions of men” working in it.