Personnel personnel

The BBC has 231 staff working in its "in-house" HR team, as of August this year. That compares with 251 in January 2010.  In raw numbers that's a cut of just under 8% - the BBC-wide target in cash terms, set under DG Mark Thompson's Delivery Quality first plans, was to make savings of 20% by 2016/17, so there's a way to go for new boss Valerie Hughes D'Aeth.

In ratio terms, there's around 1 personnel member of staff for 72 employees, based on the full-time equivalent staff numbers for 2014 - and that's without adding the 300-odd people working in Belfast on a ten-year-outsourcing deal with Capita.

The average salary in the department works out at £51,142. Reed, a staff agency occasionally used by the BBC, calculates a UK-wide average of £37,215 for people working in personnel departments.