John McEnroe paid the identical per week as Mykhaylo Mudryk by BBC for Wimbledon shifts

Tennis legend John McEnroe banks greater than £100,000 per week for his BBC Wimbledon punditry, new figures have revealed. The three-time former All-England champion has supplied co-commentary for the annual grand slam event since 2004, broadcasting a well-recognized voice to tv viewers within the UK.

But the total extent of the American’s earnings for the event has been laid naked after the company published the salaries of its highest earners on Tuesday. According to the figures, ‘Superbrat’ receives between £205,000 – £209,000 for simply two weeks of labor protecting the championship for the BBC.

It successfully places him on a Premier League footballer’s wage for the time that he must be in South London for the event. By comparability, Chelsea winger Mykhaylo Mudryk earns £100,000 per week at Stamford Bridge, in keeping with spotrac, simply barely lower than what McEnroe receives for every week that he covers Wimbledon.

Although the tennis nice is just forty fifth on the BBC‘s listing of prime earners total, as a result of his contract is condensed right into a 14-day interval he’s comfortably the highest-paid broadcaster professional rata.

Match of the Day host Gary Lineker continues to be the company’s total prime earner, choosing up £1.3m for his protection of the 2021/22 soccer season. His printed earnings seem to have dropped £10,000 from the earlier season.

The present’s common pundit Alan Shearer is the subsequent highest-paid sports activities broadcaster, having earned round £450,000 for the 2021/22 season, whereas Match of the Day 2 host and Radio 5 Live Sport presenter Mark Chapman picked up round £325,000 for a similar interval.

McEnroe, now 64, received 77 singles titles together with seven grand slams and 78 doubles titles throughout his illustrious profession. His success on the courtroom earned him £9.7m in prize cash. But that could be a drop within the ocean in comparison with the cash he has earned from endorsements, actual property and tv appearances. He is known to presently have a internet value of round £90m.

The BBC has printed the salaries of all of its top-earning staff. The threshold for publishing earnings has been adjusted this yr according to inflation, from £150,000 to £178,000.

However, the listing just isn’t completely complete because the organisation doesn’t must publish the earnings of stars who’re paid by means of its business wing, BBC Studios or unbiased manufacturing firms.

As a outcome, family names like Graham Norton, Tess Daly, Michael McIntyre and Claudia Winkleman are absent from the listing.