Lineker can also be the one title to earn over £1 million yearly, new figures present.
The 61-year-old pundit and former footballer was paid between £1,350,000 and £1,354,999 in 2021/2022 for work together with Match Of The Day and Sports activities Character Of The Yr – a discount of £10,000 on the earlier yr.
Lineker first topped the checklist for 2017/18 with a pay bracket of £1,750,000 to £1,759,999, and in 2020 it was introduced he had taken a voluntary pay lower.
Becoming a member of the highest 10 checklist for the primary time is Radio 1 DJ Greg James, whose wage has elevated by £80,000.
The 36-year-old earns between £390,000 and £394,999 for work together with the Radio 1 Breakfast Present, Rewinder on Radio 4, Radio 1’s Massive Weekend and Out Out! Reside, with Sports activities Character Of The Yr additionally listed.
Elsewhere, Zoe Ball stays the broadcaster’s second highest paid expertise, with a wage of £980,000 to £984,999, however figures present her wage falling for a second consecutive yr.
Her wage has now slipped to beneath £1million and displays roughly 210 editions of The Zoe Ball Breakfast Present on Radio 2.
Soccer pundit Alan Shearer has seen a year-on-year enhance of £60,000, bringing his wage to £450,000-£454,999, which places him joint third with radio DJ Steve Wright, whose wage this yr displays a £15,000 lower.
The company’s annual report for 2021/22, which can also be marking its 100-year anniversary, exhibits 4 out of the highest 10 finest paid names have seen their salaries fall.
This yr’s prime 10 additionally options fewer girls that final yr, dropping from 4 to a few as radio DJ and mannequin Lauren Laverne doesn’t function on this yr’s prime 10, with figures displaying her wage has fallen by £15,000 to the bracket of £380,000-£384,999.
Different notable will increase on the general checklist of prime incomes on-air expertise, as proven within the annual report, embody Naga Munchetty with a £110,000 enhance and Amol Rajan with a rise of £85,000.
Victoria Derbyshire, who was introduced as the brand new host of Newsnight final week, has seen a £70,000 enhance.
Eurovision host Graham Norton can also be absent from the checklist after departing Radio 2 in December 2020 to begin a present at Virgin Radio.
Within the final yr, the BBC has seen plenty of high-profile on-air departures, together with the likes of Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel, Andrew Marr and Dan Walker all leaving for rival broadcasters.
It comes after Tradition Secretary Nadine Dorries introduced earlier this yr that the BBC’s licence charge shall be frozen underneath inflation for the subsequent two years, saying that this ‘offers the broadcaster certainty whereas defending the general public from a value hike’.
BBC's prime 20 on-air earners in 2021/22
- Gary Lineker – £1,350,000-1,354,999 (down from £1,360,000-£1,364,999)
- Zoe Ball – £980,000-£984,999 (down from £1,130,000-£1,134,999)
- Alan Shearer – £450,000-£454,999 (up from £390,000-£394,999)
- Steve Wright – £450,000-£454,999 (down from £465,000-£469,999)
- Stephen Nolan – £415,000-£419,999 (up from £405,000-£409,999)
- Fiona Bruce – £410,000-£414,999 (up from £405,000-£409,999)
- Huw Edwards – £410,000-£414,999 (down from £425,000-£429,999)
- Vanessa Feltz – £400,000-£404,999 (up from £390,000-£394,999)
- Scott Mills – £400,000-£404,999 (up from £375,000-£379,999)
- Greg James – £390,000-£394,999 (up from £310,000-£314,999)
- Ken Bruce – £385,000-£389,999 (up from £365,000-£369,999)
- Lauren Laverne – £380,000-£384,999 (down from £395,000-£399,999)
- Naga Munchetty – £365,000-£369,999 (up from £255,000-£259,999)
- George Alagiah – £325,000-£329,999 (no change)
- Emily Maitlis – £325,000-£329,999 (no change)
- Amol Rajan – £325,000-£329,999 (up from £240,000-£244,999)
- Sophie Raworth – £305,000-£309,999 (up from £280,000-£284,999)
- Nicky Campbell – £295,000-£299,999 (no change)
- Jeremy Vine – £290,000-£294,999 (down from £295,000-£299,999)
- Jason Mohammad – £285,000-£289,999 (up from £270,000-£274,999)
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