Discount

The BBC likes to remind us that it has "a policy of discounting senior manager salaries against the commercial market by between 20% and 80%."

I was musing over this and discovered a document called the Hudson HR 2012 Salary Guide for the UK. They have a page devoted to HR pay for those working in media and technology companies in London. Here's the salary ranges they report (admittedly without bonuses), and some current BBC HR pay levels - click to go large.  (See what I did there ?)