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Abdul Hai
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10 December 2020
Dear Abdul Hai
Freedom of Information request – RFI20201763
Thank you for your request to the BBC of 11th November 2020 seeking the following
information under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000:
How many press officers does the BBC as a whole employ?
How many earn more than £50,000 a year?
How many earn more than £100,000 a year?
Can you publish all salary bands for press officers?
In response to your request the BBC does not have employees with the Job title of ‘Press
Officer’. The equivalent is Communications Officer. There are 6 Communications Officers in
BBC Media & Press Relations and they are all paid less than £50,000 a year.
BBC Communications officers are remunerated at Broad Band B which has a pay range of
£23,103 to £37,992.
As set out in section 6(1)(b)(i ) of the Act, our subsidiaries (including BBC Studioworks Limited,
UKTV, BBC Global News Ltd and BBC Studios Ltd), as well as the charities BBC Media Action
and BBC Children in Need, are not subject to the Act. As such, information relating to these
entities is not considered in the above response.
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https://ico.org.uk/. Yours sincerely,
BBC HR
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