Tv Salary Shocker

[vernonk]

How unfair is this? http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/831137/Naga-Munchetty-Charlie-Stayt-BBC-Breakfast-pay-gender-wage-gap

[ummmm]

And is it fair when men earn more than women?

In my opinion she's better than him. So I'd pay her more.

[Deskdiary]

I'm pretty certain the point the poster is making is that there's outcry when the men earn more than the women, but vice versa it all seems rather quiet.

But ummmm makes a good point, she is better than him (and by the way she's also drop dead gorgeous) so deserves more than him....but equally all the men who are earning more than their nearest equivalent women at the BBC are in my opinion better than them, and therefore deserve to be paid more.

Releasing the numbers was always a bad idea (in my view what an employee is paid by their employers (and no, just because we pay the licence fee we are not their employers) is between them and nothing to do with us, but as they were, the pay gap was always always going to be an issue for wimmin and their right-on sisters with scant regard for the talent differences between the men and the women(and make no mistake, these people have a talent, even if people nasally whine that 'Graham Norton's not worth anything like that' otherwise they would not be commanding their money).

Male footballers earn more money than their female counterparts because so many more people want to watch men play football than women play football - have you seen the pathetic attendances at the women's world cup?

[Cloverjo]

All of these salary revelations are staggering. I don't care whether they're men or women, when they earn more than the prime minister for just reading the news or whatever. Yes, I know there's more to it than just turning up and reading from an autocue. If I were to try it, there wouldn't be many viewers. But still, crazy money.

[Cloverjo]

I also don't think the salaries should have been revealed to the general public.

[Old_Geezer]

I agree with your first post Jo.

[albaqwerty]

I think she presents more than just a few days on the BBC breakfast, she does do other shifts so maybe she gets paid more as she does more hours than Mr 'I've got good hair' Stayt?

[Zacs-Master]

Nowhere near as crazy as sportsmen and women.

[vernonk]

It's only the top sports men and women in certain sports who get paid massive salaries. But you must remember most sports careers are very short, and prone to ending at any point due to injury

[Islay]

I think its shocking that there are civil servants that earn more than the Prime Minister!

[Old_Geezer]

Perhaps, but the injury isn't likely to stop them joining the rest of us. And in the meanwhile it's still unjustifiable money. It's the whole chain, everyone demands silly money, clubs, players, TV, etc. and points to the rest of the chain to try to justify it.

[Sqad]

Well.....she is "drop dead " gorgeous and yes, ummmm may think that she is worth more than Charlie, but are ether of those a basis for salary negotiations? I think not.
Comparing salaries is always a difficult and emotive topic, the poorly paid can think of reasons why they should have a pay rise and the well pain can justify their high salary and why the poorly paid are...well...poorly paid.
Then the emotional aspect comes in..doctors, nurses, policeman, fireman...they save lives, they should be paid more than the bank clerk, the shop assistants......so and so forth.
Someone has to make a decision and in the public sector it is mainly the Unions and in the private sector, mainly the employers.
If i was an employer, my attitude would be to pay the employee the salary that i could get him/her for.....if £25,000 a year would do the deal, then why offer £30,000?
If Gary Lineker would increase my sales or viewing figures and would accept £350,000 and no company rival would match that figure, then that would be his salary. Clearly it took a bigger hit to get Naga than it did to get Charlie......maybe unfair.......but life often is.
It is wrong to expose anybody's salary on the world wide media in my opinion.

[ummmm]

Look at the millions sports people earn in the US.

I don't care what people earn. It shouldn't have been published. It's private. I'd be well peed off if my boss let everyone know how much I earned.

[Cloverjo]

True about the top-earning sports stars. Also, American sitcom actors. The main stars (male and female) of Big Bang Theory recently got a million dollars per episode, while two of the other women had 'only' $200,000. I think it might be more fair now as the high earners agreed to a pay cut so the others could have more. Still, they weren't exactly starving.

[Old_Geezer]

Your salary wouldn't be, I assume, excessive enough to be considered "whistle blowing" to those on sensible wage who are told they must contribute towards it or lose TV.

[Islay]

I agree Ummmm its no one's business - all this rubbish about the tax payers paying the licence fee is a red herring.
As a civil servant I would be very annoyed if all of the sudden my name and salary was published - do you have a right to know my salary because 'you pay my wages'!!!

[albaqwerty]

One of my bosses paid everyone the same hourly rate irrespective of what their job title was.
We were all happy, knew where we were and all that.

Publishing their salaries was not a good idea.

[Cloverjo]

In the company I work for, some people earn more than others for putting in the same hours. The reason is that they are needed for their knowledge and ability, and the firm would be lost without them.

[ummmm]

I used to run a business. Everyone started on the same basic rate and were paid bonuses for work done.

People who are better at their jobs deserve to be paid more. I'm not arguing the amount though. Some wages are excessive but I assume it's the going rate.

[vulcan42]

We've always known footballers wages ever since they turned professional, over 130 years ago. why has that been acceptable but for virtually everybody else it has to be a closely guarded secret?

[ummmm]

Vulcan...isn't that because the club has to buy them?