More than 100 BBC managers on the 'rich list'

More than 100 BBC managers on the 'rich list'

More than 100 BBC managers are on a second 'rich list' of staff at the broadcaster who earn more than the Prime Minister.

While the list of best-paid stars drew most attention yesterday, the BBC was also forced to reveal the extent of its largesse to executives who work behind the scenes.

The Corporation said that 106 staff and a dozen contractors each received more than £150,000 last year, led by director general Tony Hall on £450,000.

Tony Hall topped the managerial payroll with a salary of £450,000, but was followed by another 105 people each earning more than £150,000

And that did not even include BBC Worldwide chief Tim Davie, who is on £682,000. He was exempt because BBC Worldwide is a commercial entity.

The rich list helped to push the BBC's wage bill above the £1billion mark and plunge the Corporation firmly into the red. It overspent by £129million last year, despite a £127million boost to its income.

But the sky-high salaries and overspending were not the only controversies relating to the second rich list.

In a revelation that will spark further anger over the BBC's gender pay gap, fewer than a third of those on the 106-strong roll of top-paid staff were women.

Deputy director Anne Bulford, directo r of BBC content Charlotte Moore, and HR director Valerie Hughes-D'Aeth stand out as three of the biggest-earners, on £435,000, £325,000 and £310,000 a year.

However, most of the other top-paid executives are little-known men each raking in six-figure sums.

Stuart Page, director of product and systems, Bruce Malcolm, Scotland's head of service development, and Richard Cooper, controller of digital distribution, collected up to £200,000 each.

Other big earners included James Purnell, the former Labour Cabinet secretary turned director of radio and education, on £295,000 a year, and Bob Shennan, another director of radio, close behind on £271,000.

Ian Haythornthwaite, a director of finance who has such a tight grip on the detail he once claimed a £3.90 tram fare on expenses, received £241,000.

It is a depressingly similar picture to the one painted by the rich list of top talent, which revealed that many well-known women earn less than £150,000 while men that viewers had hardly heard of raked in hundreds of thousands.

Other big earners included James Purnell, the former Labour Cabinet secretary turned director of radio and education, on £295,000 a year

Nearly half (48 per cent) of BBC staff are women but they only outnumber men on the lowest rungs of the ladder. Men outnumber women two to one on the top management 'grades'.

Even with this gender pay gap, the BBC boasted that its workforce is 'more inclusive than its ever been'. It also tried to insist that it is saving money.

Lord Hall highlighted the BBC's 'record on efficiency' on Wednesday, claiming that the corporation had made £172million in 'efficiency savings' across the year.

'We are over-delivering against savings,' he said.

The BBC annual report in front of him disclosed that the Corporation had overspent by £129.1million after it hi red 28 extra staff â€" bringing its headcount to 19,254 â€" and lavished cash sending more than 450 workers to the Rio Olympics.

Anne Bulford, the deputy director general, admitted that the number of staff had risen but insisted that the 'underlying' headcount had fallen.

She said the BBC axed more than 500 jobs last year to save money, but that it then recruited even more than it had got rid of because of various new projects. It went on a hiring spree as it expanded the World Service into different countries, tried to bring outsourced jobs in-house, funded apprenticeships and bolstered its technology unit.

She also insisted that the overspend did not count as an overspend because it was 'planned'.

'The BBC operates to break even over time and in different years…last year we recorded a surplus, this year we recorded a deficit of £129million. That's planned. And the reasons for that is 2016/17 [sic] was a very big sports year.

'We had both the euros and the wonderful Olympics from Rio.' 

Analytics architect! The oh-so luvvie job titles of BBC bosses 

In the BBC’s acclaimed satire of itself, W1A, senior staff swagger around with ridiculous job titles such as ‘Director of Better’.

And it seems art imitates life, with the pay report highlighting how money is being thrown at managers with baffling duties.

Huge sums are being spent on people doing roles that sound meaningless to anyone not immersed in BBC jargon.

Here are ten such jobs â€" each in the £150,000 to £200,000 pay bracket â€" along with the often puzzling description of what the employee actually does.

Analytics Architect

Name: Patrick Foody. Role: Ensuring vision, roadmap and strategy for data analytics is delivered using standardised, reusable and innovative architectures.

Identity Architect

Name: Colin Brown. Role: Delivering enterprise solutions for identity management and access management.

Service Architect

Name: Terence Reeves. Role: Designing the service architecture.

Integration Lead

Name: Richard Smith. Rol e: Drive a number of initiatives.

Technical Project Manager

Name: James Hewines. Role: To develop and demonstrate technical project management and agile skills.

Head of Strategic Change, World Service

Name: Adrian Van Klaveren. Role: Responsible for leading change activity across BBC News Group.

Chief Architect

Name: Jatin Aythora. Role: ‘Confront your fears and size up your risks’ (in his own words).

Director Audiences

Name: Nick North. Role: Provide strategic leadership to the team managing central audience measurement, marketing sciences and brand insight teams.

Head Of Network Supply

Name: Helen Blenkinsop. Role: Supply of services; has now become ‘head of change’.

Director Future Commissioning

Name: Emma Swain. Role: To address the big questions facing BBC Television in the run-up to charter review and beyond.

On top of all these, the BBC is advertising for a ‘problem manager’. The job advert states: ‘You are an enthusiastic subject matter expert with a passion for problem management... you will be joining a new and exciting team to improve the user experience for our audience.’

 

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