Members noted that, while good progress had been made in meeting the target reductions in the senior manager headcount and pay bill, more work was needed in reducing the number of senior managers who earn more than £150,000 pa.
And which we highlighted here a couple of weeks ago.
The Sunday Times claims 82 staff declared on the BBC website are paid more than £150k. Sadly the BBC doesn't keep the pages up to date - by my reckoning there are 74 still in play with packages that break the barrier. The problem is that you can easily be paid more than £150k at the BBC without being on the declared list - even more so since the switch of "talent" to staff jobs, in response to old Ma Hodge and the PAC. And there's other growth, I'm guessing, with some of James Harding's recent signings in News, and Anne Bulford's creation of a Chief Finance Officer, when we thought she was doing the job.
The ST also points out that a number of managers have benefited from pay rises, particularly in November 2013, when there's supposed to be a freeze. The BBC argues that extra pay is only given for additional responsibilities; why not declare them, in the rubric that goes with each management page ?
My trawl did reveal one oddity. Director of Radio Helen Boaden's total package appears to be bigger than the DG's. I know it was her birthday recently, but really...?
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