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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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.”
