MORE than 200 BBC staff now take home at least £150,000 a year.
The number has risen by more than 40 per cent in five years.
Top of the BBC’s talent pay list is Gary Lineker, who earned a whopping £1.35million last year
Presenters account for 87 of them but 133 off-air staff are in the mega-salary bracket, the BBC’s annual report shows.
Top of the talent pay list is Gary Lineker, who earned £1.35million despite an impartiality row over anti-Tory tweets.
Radio 2 breakfast show presenter Zoe Ball is the Beeb’s second-highest paid star, on £984,999.
And Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer was in third place on £449,999, ahead of suspended news anchor Huw Edwards.
Mr Sunak is entitled to an annual salary of £167,391.
His earnings are made up of £80,807 for the role of Prime Minister, and an additional £86,584 MP wage.
Tory MP Nigel Mills said: “This is disturbing.
“We’ve been repeatedly assured the BBC is making savings but these stats show the opposite.”
