To think Charlie from Casualty is overpaid?

[HarryBiscuit]

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£350-400k for the last financial year.

He has ONE facial expression!

Rivers she's in the £150,000-£199,999 bracket.

I love casualty

They are all overpaid; it's public sector staff that should be getting high salaries not actors etc.

I don't have to fund the daily mail.

Tbh I would like to bin the TV but the rest of the family won't let me.

Jeremy Bowen definitely deserves a pay rise. Not only is he an expert in his field, he has has put his life at risk countless times over many years to deliver high quality reporting.

Casualty should really be given the chop, can't believe it's still limping on after all these years.

But on the whole I do think this is part of the usual Tory plan to whip up outrage so they can privatise the BBC.

Oh yes and all hail the Balding!

Maybe Claire Balding gets money from a production company. Norton get £890k direct from the BBC (for his radio show I think) but gets about £2.5million through his production company for his chat show.

Kirsty Wark, Mary Berry and many others of the "talent pool" go through production companies so we have no idea what they are paid. Gary Lineker though - seriously - people would still watch MOD no matter who presented. Let him go to commercial broadcasters who he claims would pay him more.

Plenty of young talent the BBC could train up on smaller salaries - let the commercial stations poach "talent" - always more in the pond.

I've reported the spam.

Last year Clare had a lot on away from the BBC - Racing, Paralympics, Crufts, her book, etc.

Clare Balding also works for Channel 4 so this is definitely not all her earnings from broadcasting.

It will be interesting to see what Chris Evans earns in 2017/8 with no Top Gear to boost his earnings. It wouldn't surprise me if that was quite a large slice of his pay.

Publishing these figures may be good for openness but I suspect it will lead to a levelling up as some of the lower paid performers demand higher pay.

Anyone discussed the above public sector redundancy packages that the recent Tory MPs who lost their seats got? Or how they get to keep all the investment money from their properties that were funded by the tax payer?

Not really relevant but MPs redundancy is the same for all parties, not just for Tories, and has been substantially reduced. They now receive double the statutory redundancy payment. Public sector redundancy payments are generally more than that - around three times the statutory redundancy payment. The taxpayer no longer funds second homes for MPs. They can only claim for renting a second home. So I'm afraid you are completely wrong on both counts.

It's very bad management that licence payers of all incomes pay Gary "crisp flogger" Lineker a fortune to present football. My family would watch the show with a pack of crisps sitting silently in the chair tbh. It would be the perfect place to start the automation revolution..

Presumably it happened so the BBC can show something is already being done about an issue they know they are going to get slammed for and should have addressed sooner. It's a welcome decision of course but one made in a panic by the look of it.

End The Stealth Tax/ License fee & axe the BBC.

Rant over

One sentence hardly makes a rant, does it?

Alan Shearer is in the £400 - £450k bracket. For watching a few football matches and commenting on them for an hour on Saturday nights. During the football season, so mostly only two thirds of a year. On a pay per minute that's probably top of the list. How can that possibly be justified?

Agree about Jeremy Bowen, I was shocked to see that he's so relatively low on the list.

No one actually wants to listen to Chris Evans and Steve Wright, do they? They tune in because they're trapped in a car on the school run and the presenters are marginally less annoying than hearing the same advert for the thousandth time.

Can't believe no one at the BBC has realised this!

Presumably it happened so the BBC can show something is already being done about an issue they know they are going to get slammed for and should have addressed sooner. It's a welcome decision of course but one made in a panic by the look of it.

No. The government forced the BBC into this when its charter was renewed last year. The BBC remains opposed to publishing salaries in this way.

I think Charlie actor man, has had a good run for his money but quite frankly Spit the Dog has more emotional range.

Those men ought to ashamed of themselves to think their presence demands such a high salary.

The pay should be capped at £150,000. I bet there are loads of interesting people out there who would be just as entertaining.

No one actually wants to listen to Chris Evans and Steve Wright, do they?

I don't like Chris Evans at all and don't listen to his show but he is pulling in almost 25% more listeners every morning than Terry Wogan did in the same slot. Steve Wright has also had consistently good ratings which do not appear to be purely people listening whilst on the school run.

Yes to training up young people. Much more useful for a publicly funded organisation.

I bet there's a lot of people dumping their agents today.

I love the BBC as well. I think it's excellent value for money. But to those who are paid extremely well, I say this: share the love.