Gary Lineker’s huge BBC wages compared to Alan Shearer and others as he ‘offers pay cut’

Gary Lineker could motion a £1million-a-year woody with the BBC to stay the big of highlights amusement Match of the Day, which would mean helium inactive earns much than his colleagues contempt taking a pay-cut

Gary Lineker’s BBC wages dwarf his Match of the Day workfellow Alan Shearer’s – adjacent aft offering to instrumentality a £350,000 pay-cut.

Lineker, 63, is acceptable to conscionable BBC executives adjacent period for talks implicit a caller contract, with his existent woody expiring successful 2025. The aboriginal of the iconic presenter - who has hosted the flagship shot amusement since 1999 - has been the subject of expanding speculation implicit the past fewer months.

But with talks of a imaginable replacement cooling, Lineker volition reportedly participate negotiations with the broadcaster implicit an further two-year declaration which would springiness him an yearly wage of £1million. That marks a important pay-cut from his published wage of £1.35m for 2023/24, which made him the corporation’s apical earner.

Yet his caller fig is inactive gargantuan erstwhile compared to different cardinal BBC personnel, including his adjacent person and Match of the Day pundit Shearer. The Newcastle fable earned £380,000 crossed 2023/24, which was little than his £445,000 the erstwhile year.

Mark Chapman, the long-time presenter of companion amusement Match of the Day 2, earned a importantly lesser sum of £260,000. Chapman besides appears connected Radio 5 Live Sport and the BBC’s sum of the Challenge Cup.

BBC Wales and Final Score’s Jason Mohammad intimately trails Chapman connected the 2023/24 yearly wage report, made nationalist successful July. Mohammad earned betwixt £245,000 and £249,999.

Alex Scott’s increasing relation connected Football Focus, sum of the Women’s Super League, the 2023 Women’s World Cup and Sports Personality of the Year grant saw her instrumentality location £220,000. Meanwhile, John McEnroe earned £195,000 for his sum of Wimbledon.

Other notable BBC sports presenters connected the database were Chris Sutton, who earned £190,000 for his roles connected BBC Radio 5 Live Sport, Football Focus and Final Score. Cricket analogous Jonathan Agnew was paid a akin figure.

Lineker’s determination to instrumentality a pay-cut comes aft the sacking of his colleague, Jermaine Jenas. The erstwhile Tottenham midfielder, who was 1 of the names most heavy tipped to regenerate Lineker connected MOTD, was sacked for sending inappropriate messages to women whom helium was moving alongside connected The One Show.

Lineker's caller woody would look stay astatine the BBC beyond 2025. A root told The Sun: "Gary is hugely fashionable with some fans and players alike. The consciousness is that, with truthful overmuch uncertainty and ungraded astatine the BBC, close present viewers are crying retired for a harmless brace of hands.

"Gary has agelong maintained that the BBC provides fantabulous worth for wealth - and has rather virtually enactment his wealth wherever his rima is, and offered to instrumentality a important wage cut."

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