Top BBC jobs STILL packed with privately-educated people despite working class viewers’ complaints of being patronised
THE BBC’s top jobs are still packed with posh people despite working- class viewers complaining of being patronised.
Figures show more than a fifth of the highest earners went to a private school.
That’s three times more than in the population as a whole.
BBC pay statistics reveal that 22 per cent of the Corporation’s staff on more than £150,000 went to fee-paying schools.
Overall, just seven per cent of people in the UK got a similar leg-up in life.
BBC director-general Tim Davie, on £525,000-a-year, went to Whitgift School, in South London, on a scholarship.
Fees are up to £43,500 annually.
Chief content officer Charlotte Moore, on £425,000, went to Wycombe Abbey, Bucks, with fees up to £40,000.
Presenter Laura Kuenssberg, World Affairs Editor John Simpson, Security Correspondent Frank Gardner and Royal Correspondent Nicholas Witchell all went to private schools.
Earlier this month, a report by media regulator Ofcom found poorer viewers thought the BBC was run by an “exclusive, upper-class group of white men” earning too much.
The BBC said 21 per cent of its staff are from “low socio-economic backgrounds”.
A spokesman added: “We want the BBC to be for everyone.”