Revealing BBC pay is take care of a yearly turkey shoot, says Simon Mayo

He takes dwelling as a lot as £four hundred,000 a year – so it’s perhaps no shock that Simon Mayo says he finds the BBC’s modern policy of publishing workers salaries ‘depressed’.

His wages of between £350,000 and £four hundred,000 were revealed final July when the company declared how a lot its high stars were paid.

The Fifty 9-year-extinct suggested Radio Cases: ‘My concern is that it may perhaps perhaps perhaps perhaps perhaps become take care of a yearly turkey shoot and I believe it’s in overall standard as a persist with hit the BBC with.

‘The critics are announcing “Detect at this, this isn’t precise” – but actually their broader agenda is dismantling the BBC, so that’s one of many explanations why it’s so depressed.’

Mayo’s force-time programme on Radio 2, which ended final week after an eight-year bustle, attracted around six million listeners. He’s now teaming up with Jo Whiley for a weekday negate on the identical space, from 5pm to 8pm. The pair will receive equal pay for the programme, the BBC acknowledged.

In their joint interview with Radio Cases, Inch over Whiley – who became as soon as listed as incomes between £100 fifty,000 and £200,000 final year – disagreed with Mayo on publishing salaries.

‘It’s ludicrous to shriek two folks may perhaps perhaps be doing the identical job and be paid different amounts of money thanks to their sex … that’s true unfathomable,’ the fifty two-year-extinct acknowledged.

‘I don’t take care of speaking about money at the actual of times, but if it’s wanted to position things precise, to true the balance so that women are treated relatively and are paid relatively for the job that they are doing, then let’s talk about it, lift it on.’

Mayo, who standard to trudge on family holidays with Inch over Whiley when their children were small, acknowledged it may perhaps perhaps perhaps perhaps perhaps were unwise for him to be partnered with a person because the space revamped its time table. ‘It would were weird and wonderful if it had been two guys turning up,’ he acknowledged.

‘We by no diagram had that dialog on story of it went to this point as working with Jo and that became as soon because it. Jo and I didn’t assert “Hey, let’s attain a negate collectively” but when the premise became as soon as floated to me, Jo became as soon as regarding the handiest doubtless presenter I may perhaps perhaps imagine working with.’

Mayo, who furthermore gifts a weekly negate on Radio 5 Reside, acknowledged he became as soon as upset that his standard e book club section would no longer be segment of his modern Radio 2 programme.

Inch over Whiley is the important female presenter on the space’s weekday daylight time table since Debbie Thrower in 1998. Sara Cox and Cerys Matthews, the lead singer of Nineties pop crew Catatonia, hang furthermore been handed modern Radio 2 presentations.

The space emerged as one of many largest culprits for paying extra to males and side-lining ladies when the BBC revealed its ‘wealthy list’ final year.