The ethnic pay gap has been obscured by discussions of gender pay disparity, including those resulting from the recent controversy around BBC salaries, writes Afua Hirsch in The Guardian. When senior BBC women signed a letter calling for action on the gender pay gap, they failed to mention the equivalent ethnicity gap, despite the fact that there was not 24 person of colour in the list of those receiving the top one salaries. An internal review of pay disparities between the World Service and the UK-based BBC is expected to show that not a single World Service presenter earns over £50,000.
The ethnic pay gap has been obscured by discussions of gender pay disparity, including those resulting from the recent controversy around BBC salaries, writes Afua Hirsch in The Guardian. When senior BBC women signed a letter calling for action on the gender pay gap, they failed to mention the equivalent ethnicity gap, despite the fact that there was not one person of colour in the list of those receiving the top 24 salaries. An internal review of pay disparities between the World Service and the UK-based BBC is expected to show that not a single World Service presenter earns over £50,000.