While the British media has been dominated by allegations about a BBC presenter, across the Irish Sea, national broadcaster RTÉ has for weeks been dealing with its own, very different scandal. It centres around undeclared payments made by the corporation to Ireland’s highest-paid broadcaster, Ryan Tubridy. The controversy has snowballed and is gripping the nation, to such an extent that parliamentary committee hearings are being screened in pubs.
White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield and press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre are among the highest paid White House staffers at $180,000 per year, according to the White House’s just-released 2022 Annual Report. Since 1995 the White House been required to report its staff salaries to Congress; President Biden has made that information public.
With income inequality a focus of the current presidential candidates, workers in journalism, advertising and book publishing have anonymously posted salary information on crowdsourced spreadsheets, many of them hoping their efforts will lead to higher pay.
In an effort to achieve parity in salaries throughout Hollywood, an anonymously-created TV writer survey has been circulating asking writers, writers assistants, executive assistants and showrunners assistants to share their salaries — and the entries have been eye-opening.
It’s easy to compare Hoda Kotb’s salary to predecessor Matt Lauer’s and cite gender inequity. But TV thrives on paying new hosts less.
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From April 1 to May 15, 2017, the Society of Broadcast Engineers conducted its second annual compensation survey to determine salary levels and benefits among broadcast and media technology engineers. […]
LONDON (AP) — The publicly funded BBC has published the names and salaries of its highest-earning actors and presenters, revealing that its best-paid star, radio host Chris Evans, earns more […]
Local TV News Salaries Move Upward
The latest RTDNA-Hofstra University Annual Survey finds that local television news salaries rose by 4.8% in 2015. That’s more than double last year’s 1.9% increase. And with inflation an extremely low 1.3%, that means that TV news salaries gained three and a half percent in purchasing power last year. A year ago, the spread between inflation and TV salaries was just 0.3.
RTDNA: TV Salaries Gain Ground
The latest RTDNA-Hofstra University Annual Survey finds that local television news salaries rose by 1.9% in 2014. That’s up by 0.3 from a year ago, and with inflation an extremely low 1.6%, that means that TV news salaries gained slightly in purchasing power last year. The spread of 0.3 this year at least beats the 0.1 difference a year ago.
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host Jon Stewart is now earning $25 million to $30 million a year, according to several sources. That puts him ahead of the past perennial latenight salary leaders Jay Leno and David Letterman.
It’s A Buyer’s Market For Local TV Talent
Local TV reporters and anchors, even long-timers in major markets, are being asked to sign contracts with onerous terms. And since it’s no secret that management is looking to cut costs wherever it can, reporters and anchors are, more often than not, acquiescing.
