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!

Charlie from casualty has always given me the creeps. I''m sure one of these days we will hear about the bodies buried in his garden.

I said the exact same thing!

I don't watch it but my mum does and she's always going on about how wooden he is!

It's all obscene. Compared with public sector workers who actually do something that means something!!!

Whereas i understand this sentiment, what do you want to do to stop top actors/presenters from being paid far more than nurses?!? The only way such a thing would be possible is to become an isolationist dictatorship like North Korea where the state dictates who earns what, with citizens imprisoned in their country with no potential for talent to move overseas. Heck, even in NK presenters are paid a lot more!

Anyone who thinks the BBC overpays a) doesn't understand how recruitment works and b) has never seen the salaries of corporate executives! I'm not particularly high-flying in my career but I've worked for lots of people who earn far more than £250k, and that's not counting shares and bonuses.

All of these people would be paid more by any other channel, too. It's well-known in the industry that if you want to earn the big money, you work for one of the commercial channels. The BBC try to compete but can't really afford it.

The gender and BAME pay gap, however, is a disgrace. But statistically better than most organisations in the country.

Is Justin Fletcher on the list? I bet he makes a mint - he is mr CBeebies.

An organisation publicly funded by a legally enforced poll tax on all TV viewing is going to be held to a different standard to a commercial business.

BBC defenders are looking rather dismissive over this.

I couldn't agree more, peach. People clutching their handbags/frothing about BBC pay need to grow up a bit.

The only useful thing about being forced to publish this info is that at least it exposes the gender and BAME pay gaps. One can only hope it means something will change.

Dismissive and patronising.

Charlie from Casualty is totally crap. only one expression. Just like Harrison Ford.

Jeremy Vine does a lot for his money, presenting several programmes, but if Graham Norton's chat show is paid for separately, then he does bugger all for his cash - 'Saturday morning show on Radio 2, co-presented BBC One's Saturday evening talent show Let It Shine, and the Eurovision Song Contest'.

Paying Alan Sherar £400,000 - £449,999 just for being a pundit is a disgrace, though.

And it is shocking that Clare Badling and JOhn McEnroe are paid the same! She presents LOADS of programmes. That's ridiculous.

And Sue Barker is on £300,000 - £349,999 - that's ridiculously low compared to some male presenters, considering she's been a presenter for donkey's years, anbd she does Wimbledon, Question of Sport, SPOTY, the Olympics...

She presents LOADS of programmes

A significant number however aren't for the BBC. She had a much bigger role for example in the Paraolympics than the Olympics. Paraolympics was on C4.

Fair enough, but she does Wimbledon, horse events - show jumping as well as racing, the Grand National, Radio 4 and Radio 5 programmes...

The racing and grand national are shown on Ch 4. In a non Olympic year Clare Balding doesn't do vast amounts of BBC work, aside from a secondary presenting gig at Wimbledon. Ch 4 and BT are her bread and butter.

I think they are all paid too much.

Chris Evans is worth £100k max! Who decided to pay him so much!

Balding should be on double what she is. At least more than charlie fairhead, she actually needs to know stuff and presents, he just reads lines!

Clare is not involved in horse racing anymore (in a presenting capacity, obviously she's still involved on a personal level through her family!).

Channel 4 lost the rights to all horse racing as of 31st December 2016 and it switched to ITV. ITV chose not to employ Clare as a presenter (or she turned them down).

coconutella you're entitled to disagree of course but as a passionate football fan and someone involved in the sport I'd only want the take on the match from people who've played at that level. Who do you think who is good enough that would do it for the 100k you suggest?

You said it doesn't have to be someone who's played for their country well neither did I. There's loads of UCL and PL players who aren't on their national teams

I'm sure Justin Fletcher does make a mint but I think he owns his own production company and sells his programmes to the BBC so isn't on a salary.

Justin Fletcher is not on that list. Oh well.

Thanks for the info re Clare Balding. I guess a few presenters work for more than one channel/get paid by independent TV comapnies as well as BBC so they have several income streams. Lucky them!

What I really find insulting is that the BBC have said they may ask the top paid men to take a pay cut in order to even things out. Which basically means they don't think the women are worth paying more than they currently get.

If I were Claudia or Tess, and fronting the biggest show on the BBC, I'd be asking for a significant pay-rise in line with the role. You can bet Brucie was paid more than either of them currently get.

Sadly it's the same across the entertainment industry - in 2013 the highest-paid Hollywood female star (Angelina Jolie) made the same as the tenth highest paid male (Liam Neeson) and in 2015 Amanda Seyfried revealed she had discovered that she had been paid just 10% of her male co-stars fee on the same big budget film, despite both being household names.

That's maddening CaveMum. Sienna Miller recently said women should get paid more than men as they do more to promote films, wearing endless dresses etc and I think she has a point. Not to mention the extensive grooming and dieting they have to do.

For someone like Laura Kuenssberg her salary is pretty low (per hour) considering her job is almost 24/7 living and breathing politics being on TV at all hours , whereas Lineker is basically part time - he earns extra from BT sport, adverts and other ventures through his TV production company. Apparently, according the telegraph article linked by a poster above Chris Evans BBC "salary" does not include Top Gear as it is made by BBC Worldwide.

An organisation publicly funded by a legally enforced poll tax on all TV viewing is going to be held to a different standard to a commercial business.

Yes. The BBC employees work in the public sector so in this instance it doesn't matter that they get paid the market rates or below. It's beyond me that some people here are defending the sky-high salaries.

The inclusion of Alan Yentob on the list was particularly shocking - he gets paid £249,000 for presenting Imagine, a very low rated show that's on for less than ten hours a year.

Well Philip Hammond did say the public sector were overpaid.

Well the Conservatives and Murdoch must be falling off their chairs laughing - don't some of you realise what is going on here? Would anyone so anti-BBC tell me of a radio station that comes within a million miles of R4? And what about what people like Johnson and Gove got for writing crappy columns for newspapers that are laying into the BBC? You really can fool most of the people most of the time can't you?