Alan Shearer earns £450,000 a year for BBC punditry and Match of the Day
The former Newcastle United and England striker's remuneration has been called into question by licence-fee payers
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Your support makes all the difference.Alan Shearer has been revealed to be one of the BBC's highest earners, netting between £400,000 and £449,999 per year from the licence-payer-funded broadcaster.
The former England captain's salary has come into question, with his role as a pundit on Match of the Day and other BBC shows seeing him paid significantly more than many of his contemporaries elsewhere in the corporation and particularly women, who are under-represented in the upper reaches of the Beeb's latest salary reveal.
Shearer has drawn criticism from viewers for his punditry style, which has been outstripped by a new generation of analysts on satellite television such as Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher.
Viewers on Twitter reacted with surprise as Shearer's bumper pay packet was published:
Claire Balding, considered one of the finest broadcasters of a generation, earns less than half of what Shearer takes home and even Sue Barker, who fronts some of the BBC's biggest sporting broadcasts, comes in under Shearer's package.
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