Earners

The standard BBC pay deal this year was 2%, but The Times has discovered that more than 2,700 BBC staff - around one in seven - were handed rises of more than 10 per cent up to March 2018,  despite the corporation’s claims of poverty.

The median increase was £4,979, and the total cost to licence fee-payers £17.8 million for the year.
The corporation said that promotions, position regrades and union-negotiated annual pay increases accounted for £14 million of the rises.