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BBC paid more than £50m to its 412 senior managers last year

The BBC paid 50m to more than 400 senior managers last year, 412 senior managers were paid a total of £50.8m. The breakdown figures show that BBC's TV division has the biggest salary bill of £12.7m. 89 staff represent 21% of the totals senior managers. The biggest division by headcount is James Harding's news operation, with 106 senior managers, 25% of the total of 412. Harding's division notched up the second biggest pay bill of £10.4m, a fifth of the total in monetary terms. BBC spokesman said that they have reduced the senior managers headcount. They said that today's figures show that the senior manager dropped by over 3.5% and 7% cut down between August 2012- 2013 "Tony Hall has continued to drive reductions in senior manager headcount and pay since becoming director general in April last year and we are on track to meet targets set for December 2015," she said.The deal agreed with the BBC Trust sets out that by December 2015 the BBC expects to reduce senior manager headcount by 35% and the senior manager pay bill by 37%, compared with August 2009 figures.

My view: I personally think that the BBC should cut down on the senior managers because They state that most of their revenue is going on salary bills. This means that the business is spending too much money on salary bills when they could be spending the money somewhere else. I think if the company still carries on doing the same thing and they don't cut down on their senior managers, the company will eventually lose so much money on salaries. I think the BBC have to cut down on their staff members because they could be affected very seriously. I think what they should do is that they should get some managers just with some more responsibilities. I think by having loads of employees where the work load is spread out will waste too much of their money.