Property News · July 20, 2017

Why all women need to know what their colleagues earn


The BBC salary revelations have exposed the gender pay gap among its top stars – could greater transparency across the board finally bring us full equality?A brief guide to getting a pay riseThe great reveal of the salaries of the BBC’s highest-paid stars has, for the most part, been grim fun. Should we not cheer that public sector workers are paid so generously? And can Alan Shearer’s most obvious of observations really be worth up to £450,000 a year? How many Clare Baldings could you get for one Gary Lineker? (Nine.) Who – if you don’t live in Northern Ireland – has heard of Stephen Nolan? (He’s a BBC Radio Five Live and BBC Northern Ireland presenter who earns £400,000-£449,999 a year.) Wouldn’t the corporation have saved an awful lot of money had Charlie from Casualty (in the £350,000-£399,999 bracket) not survived gunshot wounds, a hostage situation, about 10 heart attacks, being run over by an ambulance and that time the car he was in plunged into the sea?It has also been awkward and undignified for the stars who have had to defend their huge pay packets – Lineker blamed his agent for doing an agent’s job; the BBC breakfast presenter Dan Walker justified his salary (compared with his breakfast sofa colleagues) by pointing out he also had another job as a football presenter. At the corporation, bosses must have been awaiting the onslaught while celebrity agents – according to one person I spoke to – were “seething” at the disclosures. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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