200 BBC Staff Ask for All Salaries to be Published

200 members of both on camera and off camera staff at the BBC – including heavyweights Victoria Derbyshire, Naga Munchetty and Dan Snow – have signed a letter to Tony Hall, director general at the BBC, asking him to publish details of all the staff salaries and benefits.
Signatories of the letter believe that, by publishing the salaries and benefits that all of the staff across the broadcasting corporation, the BBC would be taking an extra step in its mission to tackle pay inequality.
The matter of the gender pay gap at the BBC jumped into mainstream debate when the salaries of its top earning staff members. Salaries showed that women in similar positions were paid a lot less than the men.
BBC staff believe that the publication of the salaries of all the staff is necessary for the BBC to reach its goal of becoming the “most transparent organisation when it comes to pay”.
There has been a lot of talk about the BBC changing its pay structures to make them fairer but staff are still not happy – they don’t believe the current method of tackling the problem is effective. They are also asking for published salaries to include payments made through other entities such as BBC Studios which weren’t included in the previous salary report.
“The BBC spends public money,” the letter says. “The public deserves to know how that money is spent.”
> Naomi Round