Teressa May and the entire cabinet earn less than a news reader all give up anonymity all do a stressful job. 150k is an obscene sum of money for someone reading something to a camera, it's a public service broadcaster funded by taxation none of them should earn more than the PM.^^^
Bob on Scam. I think it was Kit Harrington who said something like:
"I don't get paid for the work I do. I'd do that for free. I get paid for the complete loss of anonymity that I'll likely have to live with for the rest of my life."
Because like it or not people like seeing the same face reading the news every night.
And what would be the point of that when the competition ends up paying double for star talent? You'd end up with a BBC fronted by the Nick Grimshaws of the world, it'd be terrible. Then everyone would complain they're paying a licence fee for endless cheapo reality shows and X Factors.
plenty of jobs are stressful and there are plenty of BBC news readers who aren't paid over £150k - like pretty much every regional newsreader
Some BBC news readers are on more like 500k, I think at that point why not just let them go to the competition? Unless you think all the other news readers the BBC employees are incompetent there would seem to be a big pool of potential replacements and no shortage of people willing to undertake that job.
Really they're paying for 'fame' not 'talent' and frankly, as a public sector broadcaster, they shouldn't need to. If someone gets a name for themselves reading the news and wants to demand big bucks for it then let them got to ITN and allow someone else to take their place.
Something that just occurred to me on this is why is the media focus entirely on raising female salaries to match the men's why not bring the men's down to match the women's they are all getting plenty!
Just seen what Ant & Dec earn, hahaha these figures are pittance.
Noticed a lot of c tier news presenters on BBC breakfast, wonder if there's trouble behind the scenes.
Well they are quite the hot property though to be fair to them, and have been for years. They also do a lot of TV shows.
I know. My point was he's an annoying, untalented muppet.Nick Grimshaw is on the list.
He is already being paid a large amount.
An example to the people who think it's ok to let the better presenters leave?
When the decent ones are not there you then get to see what worse presenting looks like.