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Political correspondent Chris Mason revealed he earned £60,000-a-year while financial journalist Paul Lewis said he earned some £67,413 in 2016/17 The Five Live host had not been named in the corporation's salary list - but her co-presenter Nicky Campbell was named as the ninth top earner, on a salary of £400,000 - £449,999. After her tweet political correspondent Chris Mason revealed he earned £60,000-a-year while financial journalist Paul Lewis said he earned some £67,413 in 2016/17. Burden wrote on Twitter after the list had been published: 'Whilst we're in the transparency game, and for those asking, I fall in the middle of the 100-150k category. Share 'This is a huge amount of money for a job I love doing 5 days a week, and I know what a privilege it is to be able to say that.
Wow patch beta notes. 'Also worth saying we have a brilliant team of journalists on far far less than that who we totally rely on and I'm so grateful to them.' BBC Radio 5 live host George Riley joked in response: 'Can you lend me a fiver x' And her post led to a flurry of support from her fans - and fellow presenters including Woman's Hour host Jane Garvey, who replied: 'Well done Rach and me too x'.
Garvey had earlier branded Radio 2 - whose male stars dominate the rich list - 'extraordinarily male and entirely pale' as a string of high profile women slammed the gender gulf in pay. She was among a number of high profile broadcasters to use the hashtag #notonthelist in a series of sarcastic tweets about their own pay. BBC Radio 4 Money Box host Paul Lewis tweeted: 'Many of us are now doing this.
As I said some hours ago in 2016/17 I got £67,413 total BBC fees.' BBC Political Correspondent Chris Mason tweeted: 'Good on Rachel for volunteering this. I'll do same: I earn £60,000 as a Political Correspondent. Best job in world.'
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BBC Radio 4 presenter Hugh Sykes, who has worked for the corporation since 1974, wrote: 'I may catch up one day', before adding, 'I'm happy with what I'm paid, & that you get what you get. I have rewarding & enriching times with people I might never otherwise meet.' John Humphrys was one of the stars forced to defend his salary, claiming he does not deserve his six-figure salary as much as other public sector workers.
His comments came as he was named fifth on the BBC's list of highest paid staff members, earning a yearly pay packet of £600,000-£650,000. But speaking on Radio 4's Media Show after the figures were released on Wednesday, the channel's Today programme presenter said he felt he did provide a useful service within the media market.
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Asked if he felt he was worth the hefty pay cheque, the 73-year-old said: 'What do I do? 'On paper, absolutely nothing that justifies that amount of money.
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'If you compare me with lots of other people - a doctor who saves a child's life, a nurse who comforts a dying person, or a fireman who rushes into Grenfell Tower - then of course you couldn't argue that I am not worth tuppence ha'penny. 'However, we operate in a market place and I think I provide a fairly useful service.
Somebody has to do the job of trying to hold power to account and speak the truth about all that stuff.'