tuned wrote:
Someone working for a "public" broadcaster shouldn't be getting private sector pay.
Then Jon wrote:
In my experience, they don't. My wages increased 150% from "private sector pay" to the CBC in 1972, in the same position, from CJAT to CFPR.
Apples and oranges. You moved from what was and still is basically a 'starter' operation to a national union shop where minimum pay at each station was the same regardless of market size. I made a similar move two years later in a much larger market and my base salary also jumped, but only by 40%. And both examples are ancient, irrelevant history. I don't know how public/private salaries compare these days, but CBC's wage scales are posted on the union's web site (cmg.ca) so anyone still active in the biz can easily find out how they stack up money-wise.
Given what's been going on at the Corp in recent years I doubt if very many surviving CBC staffers are now paid over scale. Mansbridge is an exception, but he's the face of the network these days ... really about the only famous one they have left on the TV side. The high-profile sports guys departed with NHL hockey and won't be back since CBC no longer plans to bid on rights to big sporting events. News and public affairs is about all CBC-TV produces in-house any more, so the national anchor is about the only potential big-money job left, aside from the senior brass. They'll always be over-paid.