To think Charlie from Casualty is overpaid?

[HarryBiscuit]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40653383

£350-400k for the last financial year.

He has ONE facial expression!

*wonderful person

Still, 200,000 a year to recycle Tory propaganda isn't a bad gig.

Meh, it's market forces, I can't get worked up about it. We should be told what all the other channels are forking out to get a real sense of market forces.

It's funded from a legally backed tax that has no market forces involved.

If the BBC is to survive, funded by the license fees they have to wake up to this.

But surely by forcing them to publish salaries all they have done is let competitors (Sky, ITV, etc) know what they're paying so that they can try to tempt away some of the talent.

I'm sure I read that Ant and Dec got £4 million each from ITV so you can't just accuse the BBC of paying huge salaries.

It's not a tax, and obviously market forces are involved - the market that these people are in. They have to show decent viewing figures, therefore they have to have people that people want to watch. If the market rate paid by commercial channels for such people is £X00,000, they are never going to keep them if they offer £X00,000 divided by two: that's what I mean by the market.

And bear in mind that we all actually pay more for the commercial channels with less choice. Those adverts are all funded out of the cost of the goods we buy.

I'm not convinced market forces have much to do with Derek Thompson's pay. I really doubt many viewers are tuning in to Casulty just to watch him. I also doubt there's a big queue of producers wanting to poach him for the latest Netflix blockbuster or ITV's new drama.

I don't have an issue with big salaries for big jobs. I think that's entirely appropriate and some of these salaries aren't that massive relative to the industry or the UK in general.

What is obscene are the disaparities. Disparities anyone senior at the BBC could have checked and rectified before now but they chose not to do that.

I would axe some of the overpaid dead wood (Ian Beale, Charlie from Casulty, Nick Knowles) or at least offer much, much less at contract renewal and pay a fair rate for the job, not the personality (exception being where the personality IS the job). The BBC does a great job or training and developing talent so there's not going to be a shortage of people to fill jobs.