Match of the Day star has BBC wages slashed again as Gary Lineker retains £1.3m salary
Alan Shearer has seen a dramatic drop in terms of wages for the second year running, while Gary Lineker has retained his cool £1.35million yearly salary
Gary Lineker collects a hefty sum from the BBC (Image: Getty)
Gary Lineker has retained his £1.35million BBC salary while fellow Match of the Day star Alan Shearer has seen his own pay drop by £65k. The BBC has recently published the salaries of its highest-earning presenters as part of its annual report, and Lineker tops the list with a staggering £1,350,000 per year.
The Match of the Day, Premier League, FA Cup, and Sports Personality of the Year presenter has collected the generous pay packet from the corporation since 2021 now, seeing no change to his annual earnings while others around him have witnessed decreases.
Radio 2 breakfast host, Zoe Ball, meanwhile, is the BBC's second-best paid presenter, taking home a salary of £950,000 - albeit a £30,000 decrease from the £980,000 a year she saw in 2022/23. But NUFC legend and Match of the Day co-host Shearer doesn't make anywhere the amount that Lineker does for his punditry duties across the Premier League and the FA Cup - earning £380,000 a year according to the BBC's recent publication.
More alarmingly, the pundit has taken a major pay downgrade of £65,000 compared to 2022/23, when he was making £445,000 from the Beeb. A prolific striker in his day, Lineker represented the likes of Leicester City, Spurs and Barcelona before hanging his boots up in 1994 with 232 club goals to his name. Internationally, he achieved 80 caps and 48 goals for England.
He would join the BBC as a football pundit for Radio 5 Live shortly after retiring, before landing a team captain role on They Think It's All Over between 1995 and 2003. In 1999, Lineker would replace Des Lynam as the BBC's football anchor, debuting on Match of the Day, where he has remained since.
Outside of the BBC, Lineker has worked for the likes of BT Sports, NBCSN, Al Jazeera, The Mail on Sunday and The Sunday Telegraph. Shearer, on the other hand, would score 363 goals across spells at Southampton, Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United - including a record 260 in the Premier League which remains unbroken - before hanging up the boots in 2006.
Alan Shearer has been with the BBC since 2006 (Image: Getty)
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He would also score 30 goals in 63 appearances for England between 1992 and 2000. Upon retirement, Shearer would appear on Match of the Day as a regular pundit, going on to cover an array of World Cups and European Championships.
The other BBC sports presenters, pundits and correspondents to make the list are Mark Chapman (£260,000 down from £325,000 in 2022/23), Jason Mohammad (£245,000 down from £285,000 since 2021/22), Alex Scott (£220,000), John McEnroe (£195,000) and Chris Sutton and Jonathan Agnew who earn £190,000.
