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BBC Celebrity Salaries - Paul Robinson (19th Jul 2017 - 13:11:57) You can tell what God thinks of money by the people he gives it to. Paul Robinson

Re: BBC Celebrity Salaries - wolfie smith (19th Jul 2017 - 15:57:54) i don't care who you work for your salary is between you and your boss none of this does anybody any good

Re: BBC Celebrity Salaries - Dave (19th Jul 2017 - 18:48:35) Sky etc are loving this, bash the BBC enough to scrap the licence fee and years down the line we are like the Americans with 40mins of adverts for every 20mins of programming per hour.

Re: BBC Celebrity Salaries - Ian (19th Jul 2017 - 19:27:15) I think this information has been issued primarily by the feminist brigade that seems to have taken over the BBC to expose the huge pay differences between the guys and girls on the payroll (which is wrong despite the tiresome feminist dominance of Auntie Beeb)

Re: BBC Celebrity Salaries - Andrew (19th Jul 2017 - 20:53:55) How much do you earn Paul

Re: BBC Celebrity Salaries - L (20th Jul 2017 - 07:20:37) It is actually the government who have forced the BBC to publish these salaries...

Re: BBC Celebrity Salaries - Helen (20th Jul 2017 - 09:13:17) It is us the licence payer Wolfie who directly pay these salaries.There is still a law in place for imprisonment as a last resort for non payment of the tv licence. So yes they should be accountable to us.

Re: BBC Celebrity Salaries - Dave Lambert (20th Jul 2017 - 10:09:02) These peoples wages are immoral. How can the BBC justify paying Gary Lineker 2.8 million for the programme he runs. All he does is give his opinion on the games of the day and his opinion is no more valid than the man in the pub. Lets get real and pay them a decent wage but not a crazy one. Most of the people who live in our village won't come close to his earnings in there life time let alone for one year.

Re: BBC Celebrity Salaries - Paul Robinson (20th Jul 2017 - 11:51:17) Andrew Since my income is not funded by the Licence fee it is nobody's interest but my own. However I would add that I am retired and a pensioner, make what you will of that. Paul Robinson

Re: BBC Celebrity Salaries - igs (20th Jul 2017 - 12:49:18) Pretty sure that if us, the general public, stopped listening to and watching Chris Evans and Gary Lineker they would soon lose their pay checks (although I suspect would get a nice severance pay) The entertainment world (along with the sporting world, I find it far more offensive what footballers earn) is completely detached from the real world. all the time the audience figures justify the expense these salaries will continue

Re: BBC Celebrity Salaries - D (20th Jul 2017 - 17:23:54) Can't quite work out what "God" has got to do with Chris Evans and Gary Linekers wages??? Or anyones wage to be honest!!!

Re: BBC Celebrity Salaries - Paul Robinson (20th Jul 2017 - 22:50:45) “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” (Dorothy Parker)

Re: BBC Celebrity Salaries - Keith (21st Jul 2017 - 08:05:41) I think it is wrong that these salaries have been made public -- I think it is truly one of those occasions where just because something is of interest to the public, that does not make it in the public interest. Why? because until now, if the BBC wanted celebrity A and celebrity B to appear on the same show, unless 'celebrity A' was managed by the same agent as 'celebrity B' each would have absolutely no idea what fee was being offered to the other one. Now we are in the scenario where the agent for celebrity B can say "well my star is going to be putting just as much in to this show as celebrity A - so they deserve the same fee" -- the overall effect, the cost to us the licence payers goes up yet again. I think it is totally wrong that females on the list appear to earn much less than males but the problem is there is not enough information for anyone to make informed comment - i..e. is it right that Chris Evans earns £2million plus when the highest paid female earns under £0.5 million - on the face of it no, but compare that Chris Evans fee means generating content for 5 radio shows per week, plus really unsocial hours (many celebrities aren't going to roll out of bed at 4am every morning however much they are getting paid), plus his work on Top Gear and regular appearances on the One Show on a Friday evening, against a female who presents two shows at a weekend, for 16 weeks of the year....so comparing the two is in reality like comparing apples and pears. On the broader note of 'is it right any of them earn such high salaries?', tv is an increasing competitive world, and while the number of channels is ever increasing (Sky across all of its channels now produces more hours of original drama each year than the BBC), the pool of talent does not grow as quickly and so for the celebrities' agents, it is a sellers market. If the BBC did not pay such high sums, the other channels would and we would all be complaining about 'why doesn't the BBC have any real stars'.....

Re: BBC Celebrity Salaries - liz (21st Jul 2017 - 14:25:46) I think some people would be in for a real shock if they found out how much employees of commercial TV stations are paid! That would put the BBC salaries into perspective. I do think Gary Lineker is paid too much but that's another issue!

Re: BBC Celebrity Salaries - helen (21st Jul 2017 - 20:12:12) The Bbc have been forced to publish salaries because it is funded by you and me. Yes I do care that my licence fee money goes up to pay these salaries, also the Bbc have historically been always grossly overstaffed, it is time that organisation was streamlined. There are very few decent programmes to watch on any channel. Chris Evans has been dropped from Top Gear so Ok he gets up early for his job, so do plenty of milkmen and postmen and shift workers.

Re: BBC Celebrity Salaries - sc (21st Jul 2017 - 21:23:44) This information is subject to public scrutiny as their wages are paid via tax payers money and the 'public purse' via TV Licencing. Freedom of Information legislation is quite clear about this information being available in the name of openness and transparency so that we poor old tax payers can see where our money is going. The higher paid and more you are in the public eye the more likely you are to be 'outed'. Just as Chief Execs and other high paid / high profile personnel of the NHS, Councils, Police and other publicly funded organisations are published routinely in annual accounts. It is exactly the same piece of legislation that meant that members of parliament expenses eventually made it into the public domain (although the first lot of info was in fact leaked). Celebrities are not due any more protection than any other individuals being paid via the 'public purse'. I am surprised that the BBC has managed to withhold this info so long...... maybe they realised that the gender pay gap was going to be rather controversial!!

Re: BBC Celebrity Salaries - Lips (24th Jul 2017 - 16:34:38) Feminism: We take pride of what we (women) do better than men. Men are better at some things than women are. How would females fare if they were NOT a separate league in sports for example? Men and women are not (yet) the same. We have achieved equality by law between the sexes in what used to be the West. Are we righteous enough to impose our egalitarian culture onto others? Parity in salaries: Do we really believe there is a secret clique of "wise" old men deciding to lower a person's salary based on their sex? I believe salaries should be paid on INDIVIDUAL's merits. I don't believe who ever is doing the books and figures is concerned with the sex of the recipient, business considerations would override anything else. I do believe the payer would pay as little as they could get away with. It's down to us, as INDIVIDUALS - not as a sex movement, to demand a raise where appropriate. If so many women agree to work for a lower salary then it is down to them to search into the reasons why they allow that to take place, blaming the employer is the easy impulse reaction that's rarely justified. The "glass ceiling" is an invention of feminists too keen to point the finger on others. Now that we have equality by law and feminism is freed up to deal with other issues, perhaps we would be wiser to discuss amongst themselves why women agree to work for less. The global solution is within the women as a social sector, salary negotiations are individual. Feminism accusing the authorities and businesses is inappropriate in most cases, it's just annoying and pathetic. It's not doing us and our public image any favour.

Re: BBC Celebrity Salaries - Helen (25th Jul 2017 - 11:52:57) Lips employers will not tell you what other workers pay is how would an individual know if it is "less" than another Employee unless published? When negotiating salary Unless there are pay scales for jobs it will not work by Guesswork?

Re: BBC Celebrity Salaries - Lips (25th Jul 2017 - 13:03:33) Yes Helen, I absolutely agree with you and the Scandinavian model of salary transparency, a system where everyone knows the score, no dark secrets.

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