The BBC’s annual report, released today, featured details of stars’ salaries and senior executives’ pay

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  1. The BBC’s annual report, released today, featured details of stars’ salaries and senior executives’ pay.

    The number of senior executives earning more than £250,000 per year rose from 19 in 2023-24 to 30 in 2024-25.

    The highest-paid presenters on the 2024-25 list are [Gary Lineker](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/05/19/gary-lineker-to-leave-bbc-match-of-the-day/) (£1.35 million) and Zoe Ball (up to £519,999), although both have now [left their jobs](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/19/era-of-bbc-mega-salaries-over-as-top-three-earners-exit/) as Match of the Day and Radio 2 breakfast show hosts respectively.

    **Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/15/powerful-people-bbc-samir-shah-chairman/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/15/powerful-people-bbc-samir-shah-chairman/)

  2. Gary Lineker being paid that was always absolutely mental.

  7. Veron Kay earns 420 quid for every hour he’s on the radio.

  8. You could move the decimal point a few places in those numbers. They’d still be able to live a lavish lifestyle and there would be vastly more money available for investment.

  9. Honestly we can do without the lot of them. There’s an instant saving.

  10. You’ve fell on your feet there Vernon my old son. You ain’t worth half that.

  11. These people must pinch themselves every morning. It’s not really them though, it’s those offering the payment. If I was offered half a million a year to have wet bag conversations and talk bollocks on radio for a few hours a day like Greg James, I’d no doubt take it.

  12. I can fix the budget. Just replace Kuenssbeeg with a stick with a frowny face on it and you’re good to go. 

  13. Why is Linekers so much higher than everyone below? Also Fiona Bruce can do one, completely ruined question time.

  15. Jeremy Bowen should be on top of that list going off some of the places he reports from…mans got some balls

  16. Vernon Kay should be on performance related pay … just dreadful

  17. Always wonder sometimes how you can be so cheery every single time you’re on air… now I can see how 🤣

  19. That’s a lot paying Lineker to host MOTD once a week (only when the football is on), and a bit part podcast.

  22. Defund the BBC, I’m not paying for that shite.

  26. Bloviating sectarian shit-stirrer (and serial litigant) Stephen Nolan being seventh highest paid is an abomination.

  27. None of these people are worth anywhere near those salaries.

  28. Given the political leanings of these 10 people (or at least their public displays of political leanings) i’m curious to know the honest thoughts of those on the same political spectrum because in my opinion this is an egregious amount of money and it’s outrageous if even a single cent of funded by the British tax payer when it starts getting to that scale.

    I don’t want to here about what footballers make, or what someone the right of the political scale earn.

  29. What’s with all the 999s? Are we supposed to think they’re earning less than they actually are?

    The salaries are absurd and not justifiable. I know they talk about talent and the importance of attracting the best, but these jobs are not so insurmountably difficult that hardly anyone can do them. Presenting the Today programme is not the same as doing the real journalism (Jeremy Bowen, Steve Rosenberg, Lyse Doucet, et al.).

  31. Does this mean the Easter Eastenders cast are on the equivalent of Universal Credit ?

  32. Zoe ball does a crap 2 hour radio show on a Saturday, she is well over paid for hardly any work

  35. Zoe …so so overpaid just to have some women on the list of top earners… one lucky lady

  37. Its a lie though, it only includes the people who on PAYE with the BBC, it doesn’t include anyone who is paid through a production company

  39. Fiona Bruce could recite the original telephone book and she’d be worth a million.

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