Its highest-paid male host, Top Gear host Chris Evans (not Captain America Chris Evans), earned 2.25 million pounds (equivalent to $3.3 million USD) in 2016/17; its highest-paid female host, Claudia Winkleman, who hosts multiple shows across the BBC’s networks, earned less than half a million pounds in the same time frame.
In sports, soccer anchor Gary Lineker earned 1.75 million pounds, while prominent sports correspondent Clare Balding earned less than 200,000 pounds.
Lawyers have warned that the BBC could be open to discrimination lawsuits brought by its female employees.
The pay disparity extends to its journalism side as well — the male anchor of the nightly news earned 200,000 pounds more than his female counterpart.