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Post by nobody on Jul 19, 2017 10:56:20 GMT
There are a fair number of overpaid talentless twonks on that list.
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Post by Repat Van on Jul 19, 2017 11:37:12 GMT
Who decides that somebody is "overpaid"?
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Post by mids on Jul 19, 2017 11:47:46 GMT
Me for one. I'm sure there are others.
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Post by flatandy on Jul 19, 2017 13:47:41 GMT
Jesus. Humphreys makes over 600k?
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Post by nobody on Jul 19, 2017 13:51:56 GMT
Ha
Jeremy Vine 700k +
Take your pick, plenty to choose from
Derek Thompson, who's that I hear you asking,
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Post by reverend on Jul 19, 2017 13:57:15 GMT
That's a hell of a lot of households being taxed to pay those wages!
And for what exactly?
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Post by mids on Jul 19, 2017 14:08:37 GMT
The only ethical choice is to close down the BBC.
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Post by flatandy on Jul 19, 2017 14:10:44 GMT
Mids is correct. It's time to tear down the right-wing reactionary establishment BBC and replace it with a proper, communitarian service.
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Post by unclejunior on Jul 19, 2017 14:23:45 GMT
Mids is correct. It's time to tear down the right-wing reactionary establishment BBC and replace it with a proper, communitarian service. ..at last something that we can all agree on....make it subscription asap |
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Post by Repat Van on Jul 19, 2017 14:25:23 GMT
Me for one. I'm sure there are others. But if somebody is happy to pay that amount how can they be "overpaid"? There is no fixed, universally agreed payrate. |
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Post by Repat Van on Jul 19, 2017 14:26:14 GMT
That's a hell of a lot of households being taxed to pay those wages! And for what exactly? For the jobs they do. There are no TV presenters that work for free. If that's the market rate that's what it is. |
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Post by mids on Jul 19, 2017 15:23:04 GMT
The BBC don't really operate in "the market", being massively, massively subsidised.
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Post by clarity on Jul 19, 2017 17:22:53 GMT
I am very surprised that this list of BBC earners hasn't been made public before now. Here in Ontario anybody who is paid with taxpayers money and earns over $100,000 by law has to be included on a list that is published once a year. It's been nicknamed 'The Sunshine List'. Every year there's the usual outcry about how much those folks earn, but you just have to compare them with salaries that are paid in the private sector to see that the amounts are not out of line. All my kids earn well over $100,000 per year but they work for private companies and if they moved to the public sector would expect similar salaries.
I guess the ire is down to the fact it's taxpayers money and that UK citizens have no choice and have to buy a tv licence. CBC is funded via taxpayers but they also get a good chunk of money from adverts. There is no tv licence here and if you want to watch advert free tv there are options such as TVO, funded by Ontario taxpayers and corporations, or PBS funded by donations from the public, corporations and wealthy US citizens.
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Post by nobody on Jul 19, 2017 18:09:14 GMT
Me for one. I'm sure there are others. But if somebody is happy to pay that amount how can they be "overpaid"? There is no fixed, universally agreed payrate. That someone is the licence payer, that's me and everyone else who pays, and I'm not happy with it. If these twonks are getting this amount, how much are the Directors getting? |
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Post by mids on Jul 19, 2017 18:18:07 GMT
£350,000 – £399,999 Derek Thompson – Actor
BBC pays a man pretending to be a nurse 10 times more than a real nurse.
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Post by nobody on Jul 19, 2017 18:46:10 GMT
Exactly, and only for a few mins a week
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Post by flatandy on Jul 19, 2017 19:01:43 GMT
I am very surprised that this list of BBC earners hasn't been made public before now. Here in Ontario anybody who is paid with taxpayers money and earns over $100,000 by law has to be included on a list that is published once a year. Of course, technically the license fee isn't a tax, so this isn't technically taxpayers' money. It's only semantics, of course, but it would be one way to explain the lack of transparency. |
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Post by flatandy on Jul 19, 2017 19:08:33 GMT
Interesting solution from Labour which I'm pretty sympathetic to. But the fact that a lot of names are missing from the list tells us that this also won't work, and Sunshine List type stuff doesn't work either. Because all the BBC's biggest earners own production companies (or, at the very least, work for production companies) that sell programs to the Beeb, so you don't actually get salaries directly from Auntie herself. It actually makes things less transparent.
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Post by perrykneeham on Jul 19, 2017 20:33:07 GMT
£350,000 – £399,999 Derek Thompson – Actor BBC pays a man pretending to be a nurse 10 times more than a real nurse. We pay nurses £ 35k? |
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Post by perrykneeham on Jul 19, 2017 20:39:09 GMT
Amusing to hear some kunt on the radio this evening who's drawn the conclusion not that meeja folk are horribly over-paid but that, as Linker is on 800k and that silly cow who set fire to her daughter is the best-paid female at 400k then this illustrates a gross gender imbalance.
They'll both be on 800k next year.
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