BBC’s top earners revealed: Huw Edwards was third highest paid star last year on £479,999 despite being off air for nine months following sex pics scandal – as Gary Lineker tops list for SEVENTH year in a row with £1.35m salary
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1.3m for literally hosting one show, MOTD. Insane amount of money.
Man on sick gets sick pay or man suspended with pay receives pay as per contractual obligations.
Hardly a shock is it.
>SEVENTH
Wouldn’t you expect the highest earner to continue to be highest earner if they don’t leave?
Article is just rage bait
This is just those employed by BBC right, not stars on shows produced by another company and bought by BBC e.g. Richard Osman on House of Games wouldn’t be included, or Michael McIntyre for the Wheel.
Oh great, it’s that time of year again. Can’t wait until they finally succeed in destroying the corrupt, woke, far-left biased BBC so that all our media is as objective and right-thinking as any non-domiciled Viscount media baron could hope for.
Btw, where do the Mail publish the wages of their contributors? Just wanted to check the market rates.
I used to think that paying such sums for new readers was ridiculous. Nobody tunes into the news because Huw Edwards is presenting, or even Sir Trevor McDonald (legend though he was). How hard can it be to read?
But in recent years the number of people given the gig who in fact appear to be unable to read or, almost as bad, can read the autocue but can’t do so without moving their eyes in a way that makes it look like there’s a live tennis match being projected onto a massive screen behind the camera, has made me reconsider.
The BBC are lucky Huw doesn’t sue the fuck out of them for a lot more than 9 months worth of pay.
Deserved salaries for people in high pressure, skilled positions which not many can perform. Your value isn’t only your contribution, it’s your rarity. Think it’s ridiculous that their salaries are made public, nobody’s business at all
I’ve never met anyone who watches this mad legacy paedo media stuff.
I really can’t see why any newsreader is worth that amount. Do people watch just to see him? I would drop similar salaries by half. If they don’t like it then go to Sky, GB News etc.
Surely the bbc can see where some obvious savings could be made.
Edwards deserves every penny. In fact, he should get more, paid for by a tax on the filthpigs who called him a paedo online.
Like them or hate them, I genuinely can’t see what justifies any starpower level pay.
Would much rather give someone more junior a chance anyway, tv becomes stale when it’s just a few people at the top for decades.
The BBC were only required to release this information from 2017 onwards.
As soon as they did, the really big earners decided that they needed to be paid via the commercial arm of the BBC, therefore avoiding all of their pay from being made public.
Edwards was on sick leave, and the pay increase had already been decided before he went sick, they could not take that away from him while he was on sick leave.
The BBC put this list forward every year with its scapegoats, because they know the public will discuss it as we are now, rather than asking why Bradley Walsh gets to be paid in private via a production company.
God, the Daily Fail is such a rag. Poor man made mistakes and had a mental breakdown because of it, yet DM still drag his name through the mud. Evil people
Lineker doesn’t work for the BBC, the BBC contract out to Lineker’s company to provide the “Gary Lineker” talent.
Always funny reading social media comments of people being outraged by what these people are paid
Simply boils down to jealously that these stars get paid good money while Joe Bloggs has to work 9-5 on an average wage.
> Detectives ended their assessment of the details and decided there was no information to indicate that a criminal offence had been committed.
[Timeline](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66081060)
He didn’t turn up for 9 months and still got paid? I bet Farridge has something to say about that.
Thanks Beeb. Love how you treasure the money you steal from us. You will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
The wages for these jobs should never get this high. People talk about unskilled labour and the wages being low because of how replicable they are, right? Reading the news or being a talking pundit is almost as easily replaceable and unskilled as any job could be so it makes no sense, higher might make sense but not by that much.. Respectfully, Huw edwarda isn’t particularly charismatic.. you could literally find someone tomorrow to do his job and I’m not exaggerating
Bbc wages seems like its all just “mates rates” in reverse and taken to the extreme, because it’s on the public’s money
I don’t usually have objections to high pay for execs and high performers, but the pay of the BBC’s ‘talent’ is nothing short of a national scandal. Put simply, we could pay there people 80% less without the quality of our broadcasting going down. Most of them are nothing special and if they won’t do it for lower pay there are plenty of well qualified people who will. Tax payer money should not be wasted in this fashion.
Why do news readers get paid so much? It’s not like it needs qualifications of any sort. Just pay someone 60k.
BBC ran an article today saying that basically the list is bollocks anyway, because they don’t have to declare salaries of people paid through production companies. They listed people that “might be on” significant wages and included Michael McIntyre and Alexander Armstrong.
We’re letting the daily mail post here now? Don’t give these scum the views
They should claim Kuentbag’s salary back from the Tory Party.
I wonder how many refugees Linekker houses with a salary about 30 times the average