BBC pay 2025-2026: The full list of star salaries
The BBC has released its annual salary report for its highest-paid presenters for the 2025-2026 financial year. The list highlights top earners in news, sport, and radio, though many high-profile stars are excluded because their programs are produced by independent or commercial entities.
Why it matters
This report provides transparency into how public funds are allocated toward talent at a major state-funded broadcaster, often sparking public debate regarding executive and presenter pay.
Image caption, Greg James, Laura Kuenssberg and Vernon Kay are in the top 10 of the latest BBC pay list
The BBC has published its annual list of the salaries of some of its highest-paid stars.
The list is mainly made up of personalities from news, sport and radio - led by former Radio 2 breakfast host Scott Mills . He received almost £750,000 in the year before he was sacked at the end of March.
But many big-name stars - such as Claudia Winkleman, Graham Norton and Michael McIntyre - are missing because their programmes are made by the BBC's commercial arm BBC Studios or other independent production companies, and so are exempt.
See below for the full list of presenters who earned more than £178,000 in the 2025-26 financial year, according to the BBC's accounts.
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