RTE Salaries 2020/2021

hawley

Good that RTE have reduced some of the salaries. The likes of Ray D'Arcy, Brendan O'Connor, Duffy and Tubridy are still massively overpaid for the marketplace though.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/0215/1356849-rte-earners/

NIMAN

Be careful around the 'reduced salaries'.

I think it's been noticeable that these 'stars' are taking more holidays in last few years, so are they taking a pay cut or working less?

Would be interesting to see a breakdown of the weekly fees, to actually see if they have reduced at all.

ButtersSuki

As I've said many times, we need to see a breakdown of these fees PER SHOW and PER YEAR to see if there's actually a decrease in fees being paid. The devil is in the detail on this one.

Take the following as an example:

2021: John Bluffy does 180 shows at €2000 per show = €380,000

2022: John Duffy does 160 shows at €2200 per show = €352,000

Now Dee Forbes can say John took a cut in remuneration when it actually increased by 10% per show and he got an extra 4 weeks for the breakeens.

hawley

Brendan O'Connor's payments are an absolute joke. 245,000 for maybe 80 two hour shows. No wonder he's terrified of getting involved in any controversy.

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120244726#Comment_120244726

He might be earning his money the easiest?

Over 3k per show. Not bad for a part-time job, and also getting a good wage from the Indo.

RoTelly

note that Finucane and O'Rourke make up most of the 16% decrease or 686,001 v a reduction of 506,333

hollymount

Are any of these actual employees of RTE or are they all contract workers where there is greater flexibility surrounding their tax options, how and when they pay themselves and in funding their pension.

brokenbad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120244805#Comment_120244805

I get you now 😉

sligeach

Borrowed the image from a Reddit thread. Ray @®$€¥ isn't a good anything. He's spoofing a living. And if he was a pill, he'd be a suppository.

NIMAN

How could they justify giving CB a 25% pay rise?

RunningFlyer

Thought it at the time but those figures prove it really did pay certain individuals to keep the COVID gloom going…

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120244924#Comment_120244924

Did he take fewer holidays??

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120244924#Comment_120244924

She tookover the Today show and she had a TV show. I hear she stepped back from the TV show due to work life balance. Or was it she didn't get a pay rise or was asked to take a pay cut! We will find out in 2 years time... when Jenny Z is on the list for 2FM and DWTS ... I am surprised she's not on the list for 2021, but she moved radio show mid-2021? I think Eoghan McD tookover on the breakfast around that time and I think he left soon after!

notwhoyouthink

There is no evidence to support the claim that Joe Duffy is taking more breaks.

I agree with you all with respect to talentless presenters, specifically Turbidity and D'Arcy.

Others are providing a real public service with real impact - and quite honestly, this is something to be cherished. I think the current salary actually undervalues Joe.

The others are not having beneficial effects, Joe is. Why cant people see this?

So please don't treat these top paid presenters as all the same - they are not.

ButtersSuki

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120244880#Comment_120244880

MOST of them are contractors.

ButtersSuki

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120244938#Comment_120244938

CB is female. Did you just misgender her?

ButtersSuki

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120244999#Comment_120244999

Indeed Funny Friday is the best entertainment that can be had - not just in Ireland, but likely on this planet. Joe’s fees should be doubled. At least!

if laughter is the best medicine, Funny Friday must cure cancer. The HSE should contact Dr. Duffy to arrange for Funny Friday to be pumped into all the oncology centers in the country. It would save lives AND reduce costs.

archfi

The mind boggles that even with a 32% pay reduction D'Arcy is STILL robbing a living @ 305k!

What a station!

😳

NIMAN

Maybe he got cut a grand every time he hit the wrong button?

hotmail.com

Claire Byrne has mentioned a couple of times that "We're all worried about our electricity/gas bills".

She's on 350,000 a year.

Ninap

Get a grip. 10 people at the top of the tree broadcasting-wise. Graham Norton gets paid 4.2m Sterling for how many shows per year? Tubridy and the rest work for their money. No one on here could do the job; it’s like lots of things - looks much easier than it is

zell12

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Furze99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120245268#Comment_120245268

The brass neck of her!!

As for Ballsy O'Connor who seems to have been castrated when the money landed in his lap... someone really needs to get on that show and toast him.

hotmail.com

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120245378#Comment_120245378

Yeah his show couldn't get any blander.

That's Irish radio for you. Bland.

Jarhead_Tendler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120245268#Comment_120245268

She must have an electric private Jet

StevenToast

Thats some top level propaganda out of Dee Forbes, aided and abated by NKM....

Ryan Tubridy has absolutely NOT taken any pay decrease.....the only thing to decrease is the hours he works....the man has about 4- 5 months off every year!!

Joseph Goebbels himself would be proud of the tactics used here by Dee Forbes.....

dxhound2005

One of the posters on Boards used to do a count of how many days Joe Duffy worked each year. To prove the claims that Ryan Tubridy or other presenters are getting reduced salaries because they are working fewer days would need a similar count. Not vague stuff like "it's been noticeable" or "the man has 4-5 months off every year". Real day by day counts.

https://www.broadsheet.ie/2019/09/13/no-show-like-a-no-show/

Gen.Zhukov

I don't believe we're seeing anything near reality here. I wasn't too far off the mark with my predictions on how this would play out. It's the 3 card trick laid bare.

These freeloaders don't take decreases in fees - not the contractors, not the agents. There's shenanigans going on in the background, mark my words. Before anyone goes 'links?', these are my thoughts only.

Lets say Duffy's fees (paid for and declared by RTE) were a certain amount in the past. To avoid these fees having to be declared now, a particular show/series gets farmed out to an external production company instead of RTE. The same fees go to Duffy, only it's hidden now because it becomes buried in a farmed out programme cost (which we are not privy to)

Never trust a word RTE comes out with - it's smoke & mirrors and one of the greatest scams ever inflicted on the Irish people

I presume the likes of Byrne, Tubridy, and Duffy bring in multiples of this in advertising? Like I mean you could replace Duffy with some loudmouth moron who worked his way up through local radio to host the dial-in show on Mucksavage FM, but what would happen to the audience? Willing to take 90k and some appearance money to fund his divorce settlement and the petrol for his 3 series BMW.

There's a profile and stickiness there. People with a public profile should be paid more.

I personally know a few fairly average managers in well-known firms that make almost as much as the likes of Moloney, and I'm certain they don't have to open up Twitter to be told how shít they are at their job (very unfair in the case of Moloney, as he is an outstanding soccer and GAA commentator).

Expunge

George Lee?

180,000 for 2021?

Mother of God.

What do the other corrs get paid?

newcavanman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120244999#Comment_120244999

How is Joe value for money? There might once have been a point to this programme but now it's just a vehicle for Joe to blow his owns trumpet. He likes to pick an easy subject with a readily obvious Badguy.

When he gets caught out, he's like a petulant child. A few weeks ago he dipped his toe in the Refugee Protests water. It was the predictable RTE line, ie, there's no such thing as a bad refugee. When he finally had to allow a contrary voice on, Malachy Stevenson, he was beyond rude. A professional would have been polite. In the world of RTE, Free speech is only free when it's the ' right' kind of free speech