Privately-educated BBC team occupy 3rd of finest-compensated positions at ‘elitist’ company

PRIVATELY-educated BBC employees occupy a third of its very best-paid out work opportunities — sparking accusations of elitism. 

The number on £150,000 or extra pretty much doubled from 37 to 68 in the past two several years, the corporation’s figures exhibit.

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BBC boss Tim Davie, on £525,000, went to £43,000-a-yr Whitgift College, South LondonCredit history: Getty
Chief content officer Charlotte Moore is on £442,000 a year

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Main information officer Charlotte Moore is on £442,000 a 12 months

Still former charge-paying out university pupils make up just ten for each cent of personnel earning considerably less than £30,000.

A single in 4 £80,000-plus journalism work are taken by the privately educated, who make up only 15 for each cent of  newsroom team.

BBC boss Tim Davie, on £525,000, went to £43,000-a-yr Whitgift School,  South London. 

Main material officer Charlotte Moore — on £442,000 — was at Wycombe Abbey girls’ college, Bucks, with its £51,000 -a-year boarders.

Political editor Laura Kuenssberg was also privately educated.

Lee Elliot Key, Professor of Social Mobility at the Exeter College, reported: “It’s scandalous the BBC, set up to serve all elements of British modern society, excludes socio-economic background from substantially of its range do the job.”

An Ofcom evaluate earlier stated lower-profits audiences felt presenters’ high  salaries built the BBC out of contact with standard people today.

The BBC claimed: “Figures show  21 per cent of staff are from working course backgrounds.” 

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