July 23, 2024 - The median salary across the BBC ... in 2023-24 was Tim Davie, the director general, who received total remuneration of £527,000, including salary and benefits....

July 11, 2023 - Mr Davie's salary for the last year was £525,000, up from the £494,000 he received in 2021/22. The BBC say he was always supposed to be on £525,000, but took less money due to an initial salary freeze after he joined, which all senior managers ...

November 9, 2025 - It has been reported that one of the BBC's highest-paid employees are set to step down from their role. Director-general Tim Davie is quitting his role after a turbulent week at the broadcaster - but he is still bound to be very comfortable in his beautiful country home despite his salary taking ...

November 20, 2025 - In September 2020, appearing before the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Davie justified the salary of BBC's highest paid star Gary Lineker, saying the salary was worth it because of the value of analysis to the viewing audience.

October 16, 2025 - Tim Davie, 58, who earns £547,000 a year, has been the chief executive officer of the corporation since 2020 after taking over from Tony Hall.

June 5, 2020 - Davie will be paid £525,000 a year - £75,000 more than Lord Hall, but £75,000 less than he was getting as head of BBC Studios. The BBC said the director general's salary had not increased since 2012, and this is the level that it would have ...

November 10, 2025 - Davie had to tighten his belt in taking the top role, agreeing to Hall’s salary until mid-2021, when it rose to £525,000. He was also chair of Comic Relief, a role he relinquished before becoming director general.

November 10, 2025 - A role that's no doubt set to come under increasing scrutiny in the coming months, the Director-General's current salary - coming in at just over £500,000 - is overshadowed by pay cheques being dished out across the private sector.

November 17, 2025 - Davie had in fact been informed of Edwards’ arrest six months earlier and yet continued to pay the news anchor’s $631,000 salary throughout Edwards’ suspension and even as he awaited trial.

November 10, 2025 - Tim Davie was appointed director general of the BBC in September 2020. Earning a salary between £540,000 and £544,999 , he oversees the corporation’s services and is responsible for its editorial, operational and creative leadership.

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June 5, 2020 - Mr Davie will take over the job, which carries responsibility for the creative, editorial and operational leadership of the BBC both nationally and around the globe, and is worth £525,000-a-year, on September 1. That figure is down from the ...

June 5, 2020 - Davie — who is now responsible ... 1. He becomes the 17th director general of the BBC, with an annual salary set at £525,000 ($663,000)....

July 13, 2016 - This year's annual report showed that the pay of the BBC's top management board rose 2.2% to £3.73 million ($4.9 million) in the 12 months to March 2016. This was largely the result of a £224,000 ($297,000) bonus for Tim Davie, the chief executive ...

June 5, 2020 - It still represents a pay cut for Davie, however, given he earned £600,000 last year running the BBC’s commercially-funded subsidiary BBC Studios. The £525,000 salary will not kick in until August 2021, until which time he will take home ...

December 15, 2020 - BBC Worldwide boss Tim Davie took home £664,000 in pay in the year to April, new figures published by the BBC reveal.

November 9, 2025 - This led to the resignations of the BBC's director general, Tim Davie, and its head of news, Deborah Turness.

Tim Davie · CEO / President · - - The average BBC Worldwide executive compensation is $236,340 a year.The median estimated compensation for executives at BBC Worldwide including base salary and bonus is $236,602, or $113 per hour.

December 2, 2025 - Tim Davie Director-General · Paul Davies Director of Marketing and Audiences · Heidi Dawson Controller, Radio 5 Live · Graham Ellis Controller, BBC Audio · Storm Fagan Chief Product Officer · Mai Fyfield Non-executive Director · Sophie Garnham CRBA Director ·