Pay slips

Monday sometimes leaves me feeling a bit picky - so let's pick over some BBC salary stuff.

The last pay round saw BBC staff on less than £60k get either £800 or 1%, whichever was the greater.  ITV staff are currently balloting on an offer of £1,000 or 2.75% whichever is the greater, again for staff on less than £60k.

In July 2011, the BBC Executive set a target that senior managers should number 1% of the staff population by 2015. In October, DG Tony Hall said he would reduce senior managers from 450 to 415 by 2015. The latest figure on full-time equivalent employees at the BBC is 18,644 - making 1%, by my calculations, 186.

The BBC's Executive Board total salary (not full packages) in 2011/2 was £2.573m, shared between 10 staff members. The Executive Board's current salaries total £2.460m, shared between 7 members - three posts moved off the Board, for an annual saving of £113k. Yet three of the posts moved "off" still exist, with Peter Salmon, Director North, on £375k, Ralph Rivera, Future Media, on £295k, and Phil Almond, Marketing, on £210k.