{"id":733,"date":"2026-05-12T18:39:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2026-05-12T18:39:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:39:40","slug":"bbc-staff-fear-meagre-pay-rise-after-bosses-forgo-own-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"BBC staff fear meagre pay rise after bosses forgo own increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers told to be realistic about outcome of union talks as corporation aims to make savings with job cuts<\/p>\n<p>BBC staff have been told their bosses will forgo a pay rise this year but fear the freeze will lead to a meagre increase for the rank and file, who have been urged to be realistic about the outcome of union negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Employees have been told that the corporation\u2019s executive committee \u2013 its 12 highest-paid bosses including the director general, who were paid almost \u00a35m in total last year \u2013 will have their pay frozen this year amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/apr\/15\/bbc-cut-jobs-downsize-matt-brittin-tim-davie\">a \u00a3600m cost-cutting drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/may\/12\/bbc-staff-fear-meagre-pay-rise-after-bosses-forgo-own-increase\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers told to be realistic about outcome of union talks as corporation aims to make savings with job<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}