From top: Claire Byrne, Ryan Tubridy with Miriam O Callaghan at the launch of the 2016/17 programmes on RTÉ Grand Canal Dock, Dublin; the 2014/15 top salaries at the station
Jaysus.
*kicks telly*
Ken Foxe writes:
RTÉ top ten salaries published. Wonder who earns the most per hour of actual broadcasting?
Anyone?
Tubridy, D’Arcy and Duffy highest-paid RTÉ presenters in 2015 (RTÉ)
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My god, what a stupendous waste of money. The top 5 “big hitters” shouldn’t be on more than 200k. Nobody else should be on more than 100k. Thats still a fantastic wage, for doing an interesting job.
And now that the BBC’s relatively low salaries have been published we know the “stars” have nowhere to go. Even if the BBC would employ them (which they wouldn’t, for most of them), they wouldn’t be on a stellar salary there.
The millions saved could do so much for funding of Irish Arts and Culture.
bang on
Ray D’Arcy, Derek Mooney, Joe Duffy… could they get jobs at BBC? Yaaaaayyy they could. I don’t see any of the top 5 being worth even 200. I’d have them at 100. And the rest 40-50.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Stephen Nolan – who is by pretty much any measure an inferior talent to Joe Duffy, earns £400,000 – £450,000 in the Beeb.
How is he inferior? I think he has a show on radio in NI, as well as a UK-wide show on 5-Live and he hosts a TV show and does election coverage.
Duffy answers the phone for an hour and a half a day?
“How us he inferior?”
Have you had the misfortune to hear/see his work? He’s the definition of lowest common denominator dross.
That’s BBC affirmative action to make sure they have provincial accents heard across their platforms.
*wipes away tears with tv licence*
BRING BACK PAT.
Please don’t.
‘Studz Entertainments Ltd’. Words fail me.
‘was just about to say the same thing
The thing that annoys me is they pretend to be employees , but they are too good to pay tax or contribute to PRSI like the rest of us, so I guess the non employees only pay 12.5% tax
Who’s pretending to be an employee? As contractors they’ll be paying Class S PRSI, and USC the same as everyone else, income tax, and, as mentioned below, their income from RTE will have VAT deducted.
Their income will have VAT added if anything, not deducted.
As mentioned in the small print above
RTE apologist hex, yawn..
Nope. The VAT is indeed deducted from the full contractor income. It may be on top of the figures listed above, but it’s certainly deducted from the total. So the notion of only paying 12.5% tax is a mite misguided.
If they are self employed, I assume those figures include vat at 13.5%
Not the ‘contractors’ VAT is added to the figures
who’s Colm Caffrey lads?
Why has he got odd-shaped balls?
Didn’t Darcy used to go off on well-heeled RTE folk before he became one (again)?
Are TV3 or TG4 going to spend 180k a year on Dobbo’s autocue skills if he’s not given that sum from RTE?
295k to skim read the sunday papers and have a natter with her middle class friends about how terrible the poor are before taking 13 weeks of holidays. Marian’s got to have naked photos of the DG.
At least they can afford it with the profit they’re bringing in. No, hang on, that’s 20 million of a loss they’re selling public land to cover.
But at least they cater to everyone in Ireland.
Bar the under 70’s.
Moaney Finnucane had to be one of the most ill informed of them all… And then we have Joe… Who last year bemoaned the fact that he couldn’t afford a holiday… guess he’s supporting I phone joan…
Good God Almighty!
This non-story is just typical of the utter-scutter that every year bedevils us once the yokes up in the Dáil feck off for their fuppwit-siesta.
Who in their right mind would use a measuring tape to gauge the speed of rushing water in a tidal river?
Would that level of stupidity be accepted anywhere?
It’s the same standard being applied here.
A dog with a mallet up his backside would do better than the Irish media is doing in locating news.
Feck sake!!!
Nicky Byrne.. 200k a year. Jesus wept
studz though
Why isn’t Lotti Ryan on this list?
He hasn’t done anything worth talking about since Goodfellas
So we have Contractors that appear to provide a service to a single client; one for whom they work on multiple projects across different media and for which they receive outrageous remuneration. All paid for by the taxpayer while fully being insulated from the vagaries of the market. Private sector gains with public sector guarantees and assurances.
I’d like that. But it’s not my reality.
Great value. I think a pay rise is in order.
These people are parasitic scum
If your boss offered you 400k to do your job, would you turn it down?
Their boss is the license payer and citizen
Clearly that’s not the case..
Here’s the thing. They’re contractors not employees. As a contractor they don’t have a boss. They are the boss.
Why are they holding up balls? Is it a hint at the coming ‘entertainment’?
No that’s Game of Thrones you’re looking for
It’s on Netflix
Is that yet another Bonkathon, with sword fighting?
Wonder who earns the most per hour of actual broadcasting?
A woman.
Can’t say that, it upsets the myth….
Stop, you’re not allowed say that. Facts are sexist!
Maybe he was right..
http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/man-who-drove-car-into-rtes-front-door-jailed-26292480.html
^ he committed suicide a few years’ after that.
In Ireland, we punish the poor/mentally ill and reward the wealthy & corrupt.
What are the salaries in the Irish Times like?
How much is Miriam Lord paid compared with say Mr O’Toole?
I hope they raise the licence fee. I have no TV so it won’t bother me, but it might wake enough people from their slumber.
Forced payment for this loss making, cabal is extortion.
What on earth does Ryan Tubridy spend his €400K+ on? All he ever seems to do is tag along with his kids and their friends.
What’s the difference between getting paid as a Contractor as opposed to an Employee?