The figures were published in the corporation's latest annual report, which also revealed a sharp drop in the time UK adults spend watching TV every day.
Seventy-four on-air people earning more than £150,000 were listed this year, with the gender split being similar to last year - 41 men and 33 women . Previous director general Tony Hall had pledged that the gap would be closed by 2020. Some had an increase, with Alan Shearer getting a £60,000 pay bump. He now takes home £450,000 a year for his work on football shows including Match of the Day.
A number of high-profile broadcasters who have left the BBC in the last year appear on the latest list, including former North America editor Jon Sopel, former Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis, and Andrew Marr., who said he was leaving the corporation for LBC to "get his voice back".
I'd like to know why your highest paid employee is allowed to be continually in breach of BBC's Royal Ccharter. As a licensee, please provide explanation. Thank you.
Of course he does.
Has he come up with his own 'I was trafficked as a child' story yet?
Is it coz he is black ! 😂😂
Useless
Finally the BBC recognises bullied Diversity.
WHY?
Why? No one likes the creep.
I think his bio really adds value to the argument why the BBC value and pay him so much. It says 'once kick a ball about' and that's about his total worth as far as I'm concerned, one big cash cow for Gary, I also note his righteousness stopped at sticking up for pensioners.
Is this what is meant by the football term keepy uppy?
Yet he preaches about ministers that are wealthy. Did he ever take in those immigrants?
Good that someone from an ethnic minority can be in his position. 👍
Get who you want I don't pay for or watch your 💩 channels. The way you put our democracy down in 2016 was a complete disgrace
Good old Gary, a typical champagne socialist.
Im really really really really really really pleased for him…….not
A black guy with the top pay.. Gary Lineker would be proud.. 😅
BBC not fit for purpose
And that is why he’s a total leftist shill.
Despite all the racist abuse too!
Poor Gary. He deserves good salary after racial abuse 😅
How? Why? It makes no sense. There are so many ex footballers who could do his job at least as well. The main ‘product’, The Premiership, sells itself and does not need GaryLineker for the highlights. C. 10,000 people pay their licence fee for his salary. Why?
BBC has taken trolling to a whole different level. Time we trolled them back. Don't even give them a sniff of your £££
Why ?
Power of negotiating - if he’s the best and BBC happy to pay - happy for him - we all strive to improve our salaries
I’m not sure how Shearer’s salary is justified. We hardly see him on the TV!! Nice work (and salary) if you can get it.
You could pay someone a tenth of his salary to present and not impact the viewing figures!
People tune in to watch the football not Gary Lineker. He only does one MOTD show out of the two. Why on earth is he paid so much 🤷♂️
How is Alan Shearer on over £400,000 ? For what .
Not bad for a black man who was trafficked to the uk.
digusting the way this luvvie is paid so much for so little talent
Good he’s a sound presenter, very knowledgeable- British people deserve good presenters.
Ahh I wondered where the smell of boiling right wing piss was coming from.
Well the Country is in a crisis, people can’t afford to Live. So well done bbc we really needed to know that.
People are deluded if they think presenters are worth this much Gary Lineker - £1,350,000-£1,354,999
Is that really from eating too many Walkers crisps? 😂
I’m loving how this is winding certain people up. If you don’t like what he says, don’t read his tweets or watch his programmes. Simples.
alanshearer earns more than thehuwedwards
White middle aged any wonder BBCSport
He needs it the way gas n electric prices are going. Bless him. 🤷🏽♂️
Squeeze pensioners to pay a bloke £1.3 million with no O levels to talk about goals scored by others and pay £80K to a professor who worked in COVID vaccine ...UK is a dream land for leftist comrades UKLabour 😂
Worth every penny 👍
Like the government they have a nice money tree to keep overpaying its staff. Any job opportunities?
How and why springs to mind … he’s a good reason to switch off motd
Is he a binary star?
Wonderful that GaryLineker who was trafficked here from Liberia as a child has done so well in life despite all the obstacles.
He needs it to help with all those illegals he's taken in
For approx 2 hrs a week? Nice.
He’s one of the reasons why I no longer watch the BBC. Waste of money
An utter waste of public money. No wonder this man is getting more woke with each passing month - he needs to appease his masters to keep the money rolling in. Pffffft!
Why?
Why?
WTF is signing of Alan shearer for 450k a year !!! Jesus, in the words of Alan Partridge 'your all on the bbc gravy train. I wish i was'!
just heard he was trafficked
Zoe Ball is much better than Gary Lineker. Gary, time to take another pay cut! Clive Myrie is easily the best BBC News presenter so I am surprised he’s not as well paid as many of his colleagues.
No cost of living crisis for all those on here saying how great it is Gary gets showered with their cash 😂😂
🤢Racketeering the of licence fee payers hard earned cash Main reason I switched to free Internet TV a lot more are following
I ask everyone to read those salaries again....now think of your own...next think of the worst well off people you know. Crazy isn't it! I don't blame any of them for taking the cash mind you.
For talking out of his woke virtue signaling behind.
It is time for him to go. He is behind the times. Too many crisps.
How The man is a wind up merchant
No wonder he's so smug.
Good to see a black man struggling to reach the top.
Wtf do they see on him
The boys done good seeing as he was trafficked in to this country st such a young age.
Waste of money
Well BLM with garylineker has a new poster boy with Walkers
How is this still possible
I really, really don’t understand the BBCs logic in this. He must have a good agent and a cast iron contract, because he’s not the best out there.
Tosser
Good news, the top earner at the BBC is black.
A liberal activist who gets paid by the state to spout garbage.
Why?
Just realised why Jermaine jj Jenas is on EVERY SODDING PROGRAMME. He works for peanuts compared to a lot of them..
Another excellent reason the BBC should be defunded, utter waste of money.
Given that he is also helping them to meet some of their Diversity quota then he’s probably worth every penny to the bbc 🤔 DiversityandInclusion lineker
Reparations for slavery innit?
Not worth a penny
We don't actually know how much Lineker works for the BBC, but in comparison seems strange to Zoe Ball who works early and 5 days a week & Steve Wright 6 days a week. The whole thing appears to be skewed.
maybe it’s about time to move BBC Sports to a Pay Per View Channel so that those who don’t want to watch, don’t watch and then we don’t have to pay!
£1.3m a year for that muppet while there’s a cost of living crisis going on in the UK. DefundTheBBC
Gary Lineker the tax dodger is one of my highest paid employees. BrokenBritain
He also wins the prize for being the UK’s most irritating pr1ck!
DefundTheBBC
Obscene amounts for ‘talent’ paid for by an archaic tax on the public, whether we watch your drivel or not. DefundTheBBC
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