NG
noggin
Founding member
D means you are paid daily, rather than hourly. Band 8 is the Senior Broadcast Journalist, News Director kind of level.
The BBC bands are huge and all overlap hugely. Also the band you are in doesn't dictate your actual salary, just the extreme max and min you could earn within the band.
There is usually a "fully effective" salary for your job, which is the actual salary you can expect to earn once you are trained and fully competent at your job. Once you hit this you don't really have much of a way of increasing your salary, so won't continue to work up your grade level, and won't reach the ceiling. Pay increases are normally limited to the BBC-wide inflation increase - which also applies to the max and min band values as well. Most people find that if they do well during a year they now get one-off discretionary bonuses (if anything) rather than an above BBC-wide pay-rise...
The BBC bands are huge and all overlap hugely. Also the band you are in doesn't dictate your actual salary, just the extreme max and min you could earn within the band.
There is usually a "fully effective" salary for your job, which is the actual salary you can expect to earn once you are trained and fully competent at your job. Once you hit this you don't really have much of a way of increasing your salary, so won't continue to work up your grade level, and won't reach the ceiling. Pay increases are normally limited to the BBC-wide inflation increase - which also applies to the max and min band values as well. Most people find that if they do well during a year they now get one-off discretionary bonuses (if anything) rather than an above BBC-wide pay-rise...
TV
ooh.. how
I'd
like to be able to say that kind of salary was a paycut... anyway moneys not everything.... (as i keep trying to tell my wife and kids)
BB
How tasteless to speak that way.
DorisK posted:
Thanks all. Nick - not seriously thinking of applying for it - couldn't stand the doilies - just interested in the salary range! If it was mega I might have gone for it but the max for that grade (I have now spoken to someone at the BBC!) appears to be around the £46,000 mark....couldn't cope with the paycut!! I'm sure the previous post holder must have been on more than that though - whaddaya think???
How tasteless to speak that way.
NG
AIUI the only way to earn more than the ceiling of the pay band you are in is to go for an SPS (Special Personal something) or buyout, where your salary isn't graded and is agreed between you and the BBC directly - ignoring grading. Normally this is what happens if you want to stay staff (rather than being freelance, or embarassingly hired through your own company.. Ahem Mr Birt...) but you don't fit into an existing salary band.
noggin
Founding member
DorisK posted:
Thanks all. Nick - not seriously thinking of applying for it - couldn't stand the doilies - just interested in the salary range! If it was mega I might have gone for it but the max for that grade (I have now spoken to someone at the BBC!) appears to be around the £46,000 mark....couldn't cope with the paycut!! I'm sure the previous post holder must have been on more than that though - whaddaya think???
AIUI the only way to earn more than the ceiling of the pay band you are in is to go for an SPS (Special Personal something) or buyout, where your salary isn't graded and is agreed between you and the BBC directly - ignoring grading. Normally this is what happens if you want to stay staff (rather than being freelance, or embarassingly hired through your own company.. Ahem Mr Birt...) but you don't fit into an existing salary band.
