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BBC executives face 8.3pc pay cut in two years
THE BBC’s top executives will take a voluntary 8.3 per cent pay cut over the next two years, the chairman of the broadcaster’s sovereign body, Sir Michael Lyons said yesterday.
The new deal will mean working 12 months for 11 months’ salary.
He also called for director-general Mark Thompson to be open with licence fee payers by publishing the salaries of the BBC’s top-paid entertainers, such as Jeremy Clarkson and Graham Norton.
Lyons said that because the pay cuts came on top of recent pay freezes and forgone bonuses, in real terms top BBC executives’s remuneration would have dropped by 25 per cent between 2008 and next year.