RTÉ PUBLISHES HIGHEST PRESENTER EARNINGS FOR 2020 AND 2021

RTÉ REDUCES HIGHEST PRESENTER EARNINGS BY OVER 15%

*** PLEASE NOTE: The Board of RTÉ corrected the public record in relation to presenter Ryan Tubridy’s earnings from RTÉ during the period 2017-2022. Please see Statement by the RTÉ Board – June 22, 2023 – About RTÉ (rte.ie) ***

RTÉ is today publishing the fees earned by its ten highest-paid presenters in 2020 and 2021. This follows the publication by RTÉ in January 2021 of the fees earned by its highest-paid presenters in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

The figures confirm that RTÉ reduced total fees paid to its highest-paid presenters by more than 15% in both 2020 and 2021.

Total fees paid to RTÉ’s highest earning presenters represent less than 1% of RTÉ’s total operating costs.

RTÉ Director-General, Dee Forbes, said: “Today we are publishing the fees paid to RTÉ’s highest-paid presenters for 2020 and 2021, which confirms a total reduction of more than 15%.  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. We are aware that the fees of high-profile presenters attract considerable public interest. Over the past 15 years RTÉ has reduced these fees by c. 40%. We continue to keep them under review.”

Table: RTÉ 10 Highest Paid Presenters on an Earnings Basis for 2019, 2020 and 2021 
(Please see the Basis of preparation notes at the base of the table)