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BBC pays white staff less in almost every pay band
Broadcaster’s ‘negative pay gap’ likely to stoke concerns about impact of diversity drive
Harry Brennan 07 October 2026 5:01 pm BST
The BBC pays white staff less on average than their ethnic minority colleagues in every pay band bar one, figures show.
Black, Asian, mixed and other ethnic minority employees received 13.2pc higher median pay than white workers in the corporation’s lowest pay band, and 5.3pc more in the highest pay band.
White employees’ median pay was higher – by 0.6pc – in just one out of seven pay scales. This is despite the BBC’s commitment to “fair, clear and competitive” pay.
Its annual report also showed that women in senior leadership roles were paid 1.4pc more than senior men on average; disabled managers were paid 7.5pc more than able-bodied staff; and the highest-paid LGBTQ+ employees earned 8.8pc more on average than “non LGBTQ+” colleagues.
The broadcaster’s “pay gap” report said men, the able-bodied, straight and white workers all still benefited from higher average wages when measured as a whole, with its overall ethnicity pay gap standing at 0.7pc in favour of white workers and 7.6pc in favour of men.
This is because higher proportions of staff from these groups take up a greater share of the top-paying jobs, bringing up the overall average.
However, it said there had been an increase in the proportion of ethnic minority employees in higher-paying jobs last year, resulting in the “largest year-on-year movement” in its figures.
The numbers are likely to stoke wider concerns over internal diversity targets and staff development schemes, which critics have condemned as un-meritocratic.
Sir John Whittingdale, the former culture secretary who drew up the BBC’s last charter in 2016, said the BBC “ought to be paying staff entirely on the basis of the value and merit they contribute for the job they are doing”.
During his time in Government, he led a campaign for pay transparency at the corporation which revealed a stark gender pay gap at the top end of the organisation.
“The BBC quite rightly put this discrepancy right, but I would expect the same principle of fair pay to apply to all characteristics, be it race, sexuality, or indeed gender,” Sir John added.
The BBC runs a number of mentoring and development schemes aimed at progressing the careers of diverse staff, including programmes designed to “progress talent from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds”.
It has committed to its so-called 50:20:14:25 Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Strategy, which strives for a 50pc gender split across the organisation; 20pc ethnic minority staff; 14pc deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent; and 25pc working class. The BBC said these were goals, not quotas, and had no association with pay.
Last year, it applied the representation targets to both its workforce and creative output for the first time.
The change was made while a critical review of representation in the corporation’s output was being carried out.
Diversity ‘shoe-horned’ into programming
Published at the start of this year, the report found the BBC had made “significant progress” towards representing the country on screen, but that colour-blind casting and diversity drives had left audiences with the impression representation was being “shoe-horned” into programming.
It said efforts to represent a diverse Britain at times had led to a “sense that there needs to be a smattering of diversity in every programme which can lead to inauthentic portrayal”.
In particular, it found the BBC was overly “middle-class” and “London-centric”, in both senior leadership and in the commissioning of its output, and said it needed to better reflect the working class.
The BBC said that it had taken the review on board and was committed to hiring more roles outside London and reviewing content to ensure its representation was more “authentic”.
The broadcaster insisted its pay gaps are not as a result of unequal pay and has said audits have concluded that there is no systemic gender discrimination based on pay at the BBC.
A BBC spokesman said: “The BBC is committed to fair and equal pay for all. We continue to monitor our pay gaps closely and do expect to see small fluctuations year-on-year.”