Pay pain

Dear readers,

It's late, and there is suddenly much to digest.  A sort of new structure to run the BBC has emerged, associated with disclosure of staff salaries, expenses, etc.   BBC North costs you, the licence-fee payer, £3.4m  in senior management salaries. BBC Vision pays out £14.3m in senior management salaries. BBC Audio & Music costs you £4m in senior management salaries. The new BBC News Group pays £16.4m in salaries to senior staff. The Executive Unit runs on a miserly £15.6m.  Simply running Finance at management level costs £5.8m.  Future Media a mere £14.3m.  And Operations £15.7m.   I can't bear to add it all up.

Caroline Thomson says important work has been done in sorting this, and she's suffered too - but the audience only care about repeats.