Lauren Laverne radio presenter is paid £400,000 p.a.

[Bearnecessity]

When will the BBC wake up....?

If people actually paid for what they watched / listened to from BBC, I’m sure you’d find her 400k salary would be more than covered.
She’s worth every penny

Liver bird..did you not read the thread...it was other people calling my open discussion odd and strange.

FudgeBrownie...I see you also favour the use of 'odd' as a passive form of bullying.

More than happy to be disagreed with if the argument is pertinent to the discussion and not veiled personal slights....

She works harder than the Prime Minister of our country so don’t try and make out like he is earning every penny of his wage.

Are you her mum or something?!

I have also taken issue with Gary Linekar's pay on here before so it is not because she is a woman.

OP - you're perhaps less sensitive to syntax than some of us ... If your thread title had been "Why is the BBC paying X £400,000 ...?) the resulting discussion might have been slightly different. But you began with this particular, female presenter's name - which gives the impression that you are "accusing" her of being responsible for everything that's wrong with BBC pay grading.

@PickAChew

Good for her. She's an extremely talented presenter and, as a PP said, very versatile.

I'd love to see how much serious jockin' gets paid.

I agree. And think she's doing a better job in her line of work than the PMis, so happy to see her paid more. As for serious jockin' , the BBC article on pay shows that his earnings are:

Steve Wright - £475,000-£479,999

For some reason, OP is picking on Lauren Laverne though 🙄

The BBC is paid for by the licence fee payers, many of those will be looking at redundancy or pay cuts, how can anyone say these ridiculous salaries are irrelevant.

@SandrasAnnoyingFriend

What's the problem? She has great listening figures. Same with footballers, the industry makes huge sums of money, why shouldn't the talent be the ones taking it home?

I don't think Liverpool or Man City are funded by the public though.

How can anyone think £400k for a public sector job is acceptable? And there is no equivalency in radio. And, for the BBC to award generous pay increases at this time is... extraordinarily arrogant.

I dread to think what legions of middle managers are earning. (The people at the bottom do not earn a great deal.) Having worked at the BBC the profligacy is eye watering.

I don't think Liverpool or Man City are funded by the public though.

Erm ...

@Bearnecessity

Liver bird..did you not read the thread...it was other people calling my open discussion odd and strange.

FudgeBrownie...I see you also favour the use of 'odd' as a passive form of bullying.

More than happy to be disagreed with if the argument is pertinent to the discussion and not veiled personal slights....

But you still haven't said why you picked on Lauren Laverne, rather than Zoe Ball, Steve Wright, Vanessa Feltz and others who earn more at the BBC than she does.

Who cares? Good for them.

@IrmaFayLear but if they don't offer those salaries their talent leaves to the private sector and people stop watching and listening. That's the free market for you.

I'm wondering if this is related to the thread about the PM only being paid 150k, so they are drawing a comparison between the leader of the country and someone working in entertainment and that's what's shocking 🤷‍♀️

She’s probably being paid about one fifth of what Chris Evans gets paid in the commercial sector and her show gets nearly double his listeners.

Ina ty think she’s worth that, as is Vanessa Felz and Jeremy Vine. Zoe Ball’s radio show is awful and Gary Linekar comes across like an arrogant twat on Twitter. I do understand he’s agreed a pay cut though.

That's why I no longer give the BBC any of my money. Outdated nonsense.

Good - I love her Desert Island Discs

@Bitchysideisouttoplay

I suspect you are right, poor Boris and his little salary... Which has been kept "low" for political reasons and therefore shouldn't be used to benchmark against anything.

Check out the salaries of Jeremy Vine, Steve Wright and Derek Thompson, OP, then see if you still feel like bitching about what Lauren Laverne is paid. Quite why you’ve picked on her, I don’t know, but there are far more deserving targets for your ire.

The cultural cachet of working on the BBC makes it highly unlikely that the likes of LL will wonder off for commercial worth elsewhere anyway. If she is worth more elsewhere why doesn't she go. The fact is these people are replaceable look at the Oneshow and it's turnover in presenters, does anyone actually care that Alex has now replaced the woman who went to ITV for more money. In fact the unknown welsh Alex is a great example of why it is perfectly ok to just recruit someone else who is talented and capable but on a lot less!

Gareth Bale, footballer is going to be on £600,000 A WEEK! A WEEK! How obscene is that?!!

@Goldenbear

The cultural cachet of working on the BBC makes it highly unlikely that the likes of LL will wonder off for commercial worth elsewhere anyway. If she is worth more elsewhere why doesn't she go. The fact is these people are replaceable look at the Oneshow and it's turnover in presenters, does anyone actually care that Alex has now replaced the woman who went to ITV for more money. In fact the unknown welsh Alex is a great example of why it is perfectly ok to just recruit someone else who is talented and capable but on a lot less!

You mean, like Chris Evans, Eddie Mair, Shelagh Fogarty, Aasmah Mir, John Pienaar and Simon Mayo didn’t?

The only problem I have with it is that it is significantly more than Greg James despite the fact he has substantially more listeners and Radio1 is literally meant to be a higher priority than 6 music. That is because it is yet another example of the BBC protecting the expenditure on programming aimed at middle aged middle class people while cutting back on or scrapping just about anything they can get away with that is aimed at under 30s.

And you mean the Alex Jones who earns more than Lauren Laverne?

I was also shocked by Steve Wright's salary!
The BBC has to pay high wages to stop commercial radio/TV channels poaching presenters. Anyway, I like Lauren Laverne. I used to find her annoying when she first started on Xfm but she has really grown as a presenter, is engaging and pretty damn smart.