Information glut - 4

This table is a belter.  It lists the "market median" for the top BBC jobs, researched by Towers Perrin, now Towers Watson, in August 2009.  My chums in news will enjoy the market median suggested for Mark Byford - a job so important we can now manage without it. My chums in the radio industry would be interested to know of anyone making close to £875k a year from running radio stations, then, or indeed now.  How many companies of 20,000 staff pay their HR boss £825k ?   And these are "median" figures.  The actual salaries have been discounted by between 50% and 80%, the BBC's tough, hard-nosed formula. But if the figure you're discounting from is generous....   

Executive Role               Incumbent              Market median         Actual
Deputy DG                     Mark Byford              £1,150,000            £474,500
Director, BBC Vision     Jana Bennett             £1,050,000            £414,500
Director, FM&T             Erik Huggers               £915,000             £330,000
Group Finance Director  Zarin Patel                  £950,000            £351,750
Director, A&M               Tim Davie                    £875,000            £365,000
Chief Operating Officer Caroline Thomson   £1,025,000           £335,000
Director, BBC People     Lucy Adams               £825,000            £320,000
Director, MC&A            Sharon Baylay            £750,000            £310,000