Katya Adler – Editor, £220K

In 2021, Katya Adler was the Europe editor for “Newscast,” a role she’d initially landed in 2014. And just like many others on this list, it wasn’t her first BBC-given role. Adler joined the BBC in 1998 in Vienna, immediately becoming a correspondent on Austrian and Central Affairs.

But if she was promised anything, geographical stability wasn’t on the list. And she moved around from Berlin to Madrid and then to the Middle East, where she was based in Jerusalem. In 2021 BBC’s report revealed Adler had a £220K salary, covering her occasional appearances on the network’s documentaries.