BBC Verify has ten managers on its payroll costing a total of around £1 million a year. Safe from cuts…
Their salary bands put the total cost no less than £700,000 even if every one of them sat at the bottom of their band, rising to just over £1 million at the top.
Guido understands the highest paid Verify boss, the executive editor, is on up to £172,000. Coming in second is the head of statistics, on up to £165,000, who manages the Civil Service plants inside the BBC. Neither salary is published, because the BBC only discloses pay above £178,000…
That is on top of up to £480,000 spent on just four Verify correspondent roles. Guido’s moles say the unit has earned the nickname “Workshy Verify” among some staff internally. This comes as BBC News director Rachel Jupp announces a fresh wave of 100 more job losses to save £5.5 million. The top-heavy management layer at Verify looks set to escape the axe…
Guido revealed last week that Verify is actually hiring staff amid the job cuts. Unread, unwatched, and underworked…
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”