BBC salaries - good value for our money?

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

But before he made it, his wife stuck by him. Once he'd made it he became an adulterer and dumped his wife for a younger model.

He's not the clean living family man he purports to be and deserves all he gets IMO.

Got any evidence to back up that potentially libelous statement? Lineker's 1st wife filed for divorce in May 2006, and he started going out with his 2nd wife in September 2007.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

What we do is pay ourselves a token salary and take the test in dividends. I presume that the accountant has structured it like this because, if the taxable rate is higher, there are no NI contributions to pay.

Ah, tax avoidance/minimisation - why pay more tax than you have to, eh?

I'm old-fashioned - in the periods when I am contracting/self-employed (depending on where I am working, I either use an Umbrella company (where I pay all the tax and NI due, as if I was salaried), or I pay myself a reasonable salary (just below the 40% bracket), which means I pay a reasonable amount of tax and NI, and the rest in dividends (as I believe we all should contribute to the services we receive).

As always, YMMV.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Paul M

If someone offered to pay me 1.8 million to do a job I liked I would take it, and not care what anyone thought

In fairness, having met you, I don't think you care too much what people think now.

Originally Posted by papa smurf

guzzling dr pepper is not a talent ,don't give up the day job

I dunno, might get him through to at least the semis on Britain's Got Talent.

[Hom3r]

TBH who cares, if the BBC doesn't pay them other channels will, and people will follow.