Film, Media & TV2 mins ago
£100 million a year bill for BBC pensions
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What is so special about BBC workers other people have to accept smaller pensions or pay more in.
http://www.telegraph....pensions-deficit.html
http://www.telegraph....pensions-deficit.html
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since you ask (though I don't imagine for a moment you want an answer), journalists can get far better pay in other media outlets; they trade off low pay for high pensions (a pension is basically deferrred pay, and they take a risk on it because they don't know how long they'll live).
If the BBC had to pay the market wage, people would only protest about paying licence fees.
If the BBC had to pay the market wage, people would only protest about paying licence fees.
not necessarily another broadcaster, Berti (I think pay on commercial TV is even lower) but on Fleet Street, as it used to be known. I know a few BBC people and mostly they just like it there, and are prepared to accept lower pay - but with the hope of a decent pension at the end. (In fact their pensions are still less than they'd get in newspapers.)
Whether they *could* do so can only be guessed at, but I think people like Peston, for instance, would be grabbed by newspapers if he indicated he wanted to leave broadcasting. Less glamorous middle-level news people, as far as I can tell, are as good as their counterparts on newspapers, though obviously there are differences between addressing a microphone and typing on a screen.
Whether they *could* do so can only be guessed at, but I think people like Peston, for instance, would be grabbed by newspapers if he indicated he wanted to leave broadcasting. Less glamorous middle-level news people, as far as I can tell, are as good as their counterparts on newspapers, though obviously there are differences between addressing a microphone and typing on a screen.
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