Former Late Late Show and RTE Radio host Ryan Tubridy earned €515,000 in 2022, it has been revealed.
RTÉ has today published the earnings for its ten highest-paid presenters in 2022.
The list features well-known broadcasters earning between €179,000 and half a million euro.
Second on the list is Joe Duffy, who earned a salary of €351,000.
Duffy is followed by radio presenter Claire Byrne who earned €320,833 while Miriam O’Callaghan was paid €263,000 in 2022.
The list continues:
Ray D’Arcy – €250,000
Brendan O’Connor – €245,004
Bryan Dobson – €209,681
Mary Wilson – €197,643
Darragh Maloney – €184,501
George Lee – €179,821
The RTÉ employee remuneration table below represents fees payable directly by RTÉ for services provided to RTÉ only in 2022 and excluding VAT; it does not include fees that may have been paid by independent production companies for programming or content commissioned by RTÉ. Contractors do not earn salaries and RTÉ does not make any pension contribution on their behalf.
RTÉ Deputy Director-General, Adrian Lynch said: “Today we are publishing the total earnings from RTÉ by our highest-paid presenters for 2022 along with the restated earnings for 2021. As previously confirmed by Kevin Bakhurst, going forward, details of RTÉ’s highest paid presenters will be published annually as part of RTÉ’s Annual Report starting with RTÉ’s 2023 Annual Report which will be published later this year.
“While RTÉ has committed to reducing the cost of its highest paid presenters to ensure that no contractors or employees will earn more than the Director-General, our presenters play an important role in RTÉ’s provision of vital news, information and entertainment to audiences right across the country and enable us to generate commercial revenue which is essential to fund RTÉ’s public services.”
