[News] BBC List of Wages

[Right Brain Ronnie]

Do any of these presenters really deserve it?

BBC pay 2023-2024: The full list of star salaries

Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker is the corporation's top earner, taking home £1.35m.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Stato]

Of course they do. Personally, I think the licence fee is too low. I would willingly sell my house and all its contents to help the BBC.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Do any of these presenters really deserve it?

BBC pay 2023-2024: The full list of star salaries

Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker is the corporation's top earner, taking home £1.35m.

www.bbc.co.uk

If you have an anti BBC stance, likely fuelled by an online campaign to chip away at the stability of the corporation with the intention of neutering once of the last available bastions of truth and impartiality, then no. They definitely don't

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Of course they do. Personally, I think the licence fee is too low. I would willingly sell my house and all its contents to help the BBC.

Personally I think the licence fee would be too low, even if Test Match Special were the only content. That's got to be worth at least £200 per year

 

[dsr-burnley]

It's easy to assess Lineker's worth. Compare MotD viewing figures on the days when he is there, and the days when he isn't, and see how many viewers he adds.

 

[Right Brain Ronnie]

Of course they do. Personally, I think the licence fee is too low. I would willingly sell my house and all its contents to help the BBC.

Your happy with Lineker getting a huge income for saying little to nothing?

Surely Vine on a quarter of his wage, and needing a vast array of knowledge should be well pissed with that.

Can you help explain the vast difference? And I thought the left would not support any wage above 50k, how do you guys really think?

I think all there wages should be capped as they have enough other freebies and perks.

 

[Right Brain Ronnie]

It's easy to assess Lineker's worth. Compare MotD viewing figures on the days when he is there, and the days when he isn't, and see how many viewers he adds.

Do you have any figures on this please?

 

[rippleman]

The amounts listed are, for some, seriously understated as many "celebs" have some of their BBC earnings paid through their personal companies (Corporation Tax from 19% to 25% to avoid Income Tax at 45%).

Fiona Bruce is one. Her earnings do not include Antiques Roadshow.

And Graham Norton and Michael McIntyre are "doing it for the King" and are not being paid anything. Well, of course they are but are pulling the "personal service company" tax scam on all of their earnings from Auntie.

 

[dsr-burnley]

Do you have any figures on this please?

Nope. I should have said it would be easy to assess Lineker's worth, because those calculations of viewing figures would be easy to make for those who have access to the numbers.

 

[Insel affe]

Do any of these presenters really deserve it?

BBC pay 2023-2024: The full list of star salaries

Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker is the corporation's top earner, taking home £1.35m.

www.bbc.co.uk

Do I care, nope.

 

[Stato]

Your happy with Lineker getting a huge income for saying little to nothing?

Surely Vine on a quarter of his wage, and needing a vast array of knowledge should be well pissed with that.

Can you help explain the vast difference? And I thought the left would not support any wage above 50k, how do you guys really think?

I think all there wages should be capped as they have enough other freebies and perks.

I was just quoting an old comedy bit. Anybody old enough to remember it?

 

[Mr deez]

Why is the BBC relevant in this?. Isn't the question generally whether TV celebs are worth what they get paid?

Unless you have a separate problem with the BBC of course.

 

[Right Brain Ronnie]

If you have an anti BBC stance, likely fuelled by an online campaign to chip away at the stability of the corporation with the intention of neutering once of the last available bastions of truth and impartiality, then no. They definitely don't

I have an anti when I have to contribute to what I do not watch, i really hardly watch anything on the BBC and I certainly can not think of any sports presenter worth more than 50k + expenses

I was just quoting an old comedy bit. Anybody old enough to remember it?

Sorry I didn't read your complete post, this can happen.

Why is the BBC relevant in this?. Isn't the question generally whether TV celebs are worth what they get paid?

Unless you have a separate problem with the BBC of course.

The BBC is relevant as said above, yes the question is any TV celeb worth what they get paid.

What does Lineker give more than Adam virgo for example?

 

[nwgull]

The amounts listed are, for some, seriously understated as many "celebs" have some of their BBC earnings paid through their personal companies (Corporation Tax from 19% to 25% to avoid Income Tax at 45%).

Fiona Bruce is one. Her earnings do not include Antiques Roadshow.

And Graham Norton and Michael McIntyre are "doing it for the King" and are not being paid anything. Well, of course they are but are pulling the "personal service company" tax scam on all of their earnings from Auntie.

You can't just take money out of a Ltd company without paying tax on it - if only you could!

They'll pay dividend tax of 39.35% on any money drawn from the company. When you consider that profits have already suffered corp tax at 25%, they'll actually get about 46p in their pockets for every £1 earned as freelance.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Your happy with Lineker getting a huge income for saying little to nothing?

Surely Vine on a quarter of his wage, and needing a vast array of knowledge should be well pissed with that.

Can you help explain the vast difference? And I thought the left would not support any wage above 50k, how do you guys really think?

I think all there wages should be capped as they have enough other freebies and perks.

Do you have any figures for the freebies and perks?

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

What does Lineker give more than Adam virgo for example?

I guess the anecdotes and real experiences of playing for top teams in the world and getting to the latter stages of tournaments and playing some of the greatest players ever, trumps a decade of booting balls over an athletics track and into a car park.

That plus, he's obviously better at presenting

 

[keaton]

Do any of these presenters really deserve it?

BBC pay 2023-2024: The full list of star salaries

Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker is the corporation's top earner, taking home £1.35m.

www.bbc.co.uk

Didn't have you down as a socialist but no of course not. Everyone should get the same from the state whether they work or not

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

That plus, he's obviously better at presenting

Having enjoyed/endured the comedy gold of watching competent, senior people at the company I work for deliver pieces to camera, I can confirm that this is an underrated skill.

 

[Stato]

They seem to be less well renumerated than their ITV counterparts: https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/tv/how-much-top-10-bbc-24197535

And when you consider what old rope GB News gets for its money...

GB News’s highest-paid Tory MPs – and how much they have received

What the channel has paid the likes of Lee Anderson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Esther McVey and what it has got for its money

www.theguardian.com

the salaries don't seem that crazy.

 

[MJsGhost]

Do you have any figures for the freebies and perks?

I bet Lineker gets his SkySports subscription on expenses and just think of all the snacks in the green room. He'll even get his hair cut by hair & make-up FOR FREE.

Burn him!