Gearing

Outrage in the Telegraph this week at the revelation that NHS HR boss Clare Chapman earned a £40k bonus this year, on top of a salary of £230k.  Clare is moving back to the private sector after four years in the role - looking after around 1.4m employees (the NHS is the seventh biggest employer in the world, on a par with Indian Railways).

No tips so far on a permanent successor.  Will the BBC's Lucy Adams apply ?  She joined Auntie in 2009, earning £320k for looking after an estimated staff of 22,000.  She's now expanded her role to Director of Business Operations, after being taken off the Executive Board by Mark Thompson, and is on a package worth £367k.

On a per employee basis, Ms Chapman cost the NHS £0.19 and Ms Adams cost the BBC around £14.00.  If the BBC's workforce is cut to, say, 18,000 under DQF - and the HR quotient of Adams' salary was unchanged, that would work out at around £17.70 per employee.