Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
The corporation that lectures Britain about "fair" pay has published its own wage numbers.
In six of its seven career bands, white staff took home a lower median wage than black, Asian, mixed and other ethnic minority colleagues.
The figures come from the BBC's own 2025/26 pay-gap tables. Black, Asian, mixed and other ethnic minority employees received 13.2 per cent higher median pay than white workers in the lowest band, and 5.3 per cent more in the senior-leader band. White median pay was higher in just one of seven scales.
'If this was the other way around you'd have to call this racist discrimination.'
— GB News (@GBNEWS) October 7, 2026
@PatrickChristys is shocked as figures reveal white BBC employees are paid less on average than their minority colleagues. https://t.co/uIHesgPCyq
The corporation's report is blunt about what a negative gap means. It states that a negative figure shows the minority average is higher than the majority average, and that "the average pay for our Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff is higher than or close to the average for white staff at all Bands."
Across the whole workforce the BBC can still point to a 0.7 per cent median ethnicity gap in favour of white staff, and a 7.6 per cent gap in favour of men. That headline exists because white employees stil
