Peter Capaldi’s BBC salary revealed
Unless you’ve been trapped in the Love Island villa trying to work out why your beau LIED about loving you, then you’ll probably know that the BBC has revealed the salaries of all the lucky so-and-sos earning over £150k.
One of those lucky ducks is departing Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi, who has been playing the intrepid Time Lord since 2013 and has earned somewhere between £200,000 and £249,999 in the last year.
However, the actor has announced his exit from the series and is set to team up with the very first Doctor in the Christmas special, before eventually regenerating into the first female Doctor in the shape of the newly cast Jodie Whittaker.
Now comes the paradox about whether Jodie will receive the same salary for the same job as her predecessor, given that today’s announcement shows a massive gender pay gap between men and women at the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Overall, about two thirds of the 96 top-earners (earning more than £150,000) are men. BBC Radio 2 DJ and former Top Gear host Chris Evans tops the list earning £2.2m-£2.25m.
The highest paid woman at the BBC is Strictly Come Dancing‘s Claudia Winkleman, who only earns between £450,000 and £499,999 by comparison.
BBC director general Lord Hall has pledged to close the gap by 2020, so we’re not sure what that’ll mean when Jodie begins full-time in 2018.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today show, Lord Hall said: “By 2020 we will have equality between men and women on air, and we will also have the pay gap sorted by then too.”
Maybe the 13th Doctor can hop in the TARDIS and time travel to a place where female wages aren’t stuck in the past.