Salaries Billion devour more than half the money the fee Rai – Il Giornale

For every euro earned from the director general of RAI, Antonio Campo dall’Orto, over sixty cents they come from subscribers. In short, the approximately 650 thousand euro annual salary of top managers, almost 390mila euro are paid through the fee.

This is what can be seen by analyzing the 2015 budget of the state television. Personnel costs, in fact, amounted to 888.3 million euro, while for the self-employed work (contracts of the stars and authors, for example) have been spent 128.8 million. Adding the two voices you reach € 1.017 billion representing 62.1% of the amount collected by Mazzini avenue through the license fee, ie 1.637 billion euro. However, if you look at the total revenue of 2.335 billion including 535 million and 112 million other advertising revenues (such as rights), the incidence drops to 43.5% which is still a remarkable figure. In short, each of the 15.5 million paying users contributes an average of 65.5 euro to salaries.

An assessment by bear in mind when the fee was included in the electricity bills to curb the rampant evasion. A strategy which, according to the Tax Agency’s forecasts, should increase the revenue of 500 million Euros, even if the individual amount was reduced to € 100.

Now you may be wondering what the link between the ” Operation transparency “launched by dall’Orto Campo and the company budget which salaries of executives and journalists are only a part. The answer can be summed up in one word: “Performance.” If you know for sure that the lines of RAI-2, Ilaria Dallatana, and RAI-3, Daria Bignardi, earn about 300 thousand euro gross per year, it will be able to assess them against the audience and the share reached. The same applies to the directors of Tg1 Mario Orfeo (310 thousand), of TG2 Marcello Masi (270 thousand) and the TG3 Bianca Berlinguer (270 thousand she too). And the quality of the news service get an idea about the need to pay 300 thousand euro with the bid coordinator Carlo Verdelli. The same could be said of human resources who receive salaries without having a specific role.

Rai’s financial statements, however, also tells other stories. First of all, that of a company with very personal. The only parent company had 11,825 employees at December 31 (including 771 temporary). Of these 257 were officers, 1,099 officers and cadres, 1,842 journalists and 7,396 between employees and technicians. The average annual cost of each own resource (on a self-employed service providers there are no details, ed) is € 75,120.50 which are not few.

Second, you can question the economic sustainability -finanziaria the same Rai. In times of spending review (even in individual Italian families) can accept a public company that in 2015 lost 46 million Euros? Finally, a note in the margin. In 2015 the issue of bonds from 350 million euro quoted in Dublin not only made it possible to “leapfrog” the roof of 240 thousand euro fixed for public executives participated, but has effectively eliminated its bank debt of Viale Mazzini. The only spa Rai financial lender is the EIB with a loan of 50 million for investment in digital terrestrial.