RTÉ Announced Top Ten 2018 Earners
RTÉ have finally announced the earnings of their top presenters for 2018. RTÉ have been committed to provided details of their top earners' salaries every from the previous 2 years however RTÉ failed to publish these figures in 2020. The ten personalities saw an 5% increase from 2017, earnings in 2017 were 1% higher than in 2016 while they got an 8% rise in 2015.
RTÉ are quick to point out that "Total fees paid to RTÉ’s highest earning presenters represent less than 1% of RTÉ’s total operating costs." To put that in context RTÉ spent just 1% of their total operating costs on Children's programming in 2017.
The highest earner in 2018 was Ryan Tubridy host of the long running Late Late Show and a daily Radio show on RTÉ Radio 1, his earnings came to €495,000 up from €492,000 in 2017. Ray D'Arcy was the second most paid presenter remaining at €450,000 in 2018. Liveline's Joe Duffy got a raise of €6,000 to put him into 3rd place. The late Marian Finucane receive an increase of €18,000 to make 4th place, while former News presenter Sean O'Rourke recieved a €4,000 pay increase to bring him to €325,000.
Miriam O'Callaghan, Claire Byrne, Brendan O'Connor, Byran Dobson and George Hamilton all made it into the top ten, but Nicky Byrne and Daragh Maloney left the top ten earners list in 2018 from 2017.
| Personality | 2018 | 2017 |
|---|---|---|
| Ryan Tubridy | 495 | 492 |
| Ray D'Arcy | 450 | 450 |
| Joe Duffy | 405 | 399 |
| Marian Finucane | 333 | 315 |
| Sean O'Rourke | 325 | 321 |
| Miriam O'Callaghan | 322 | 299 |
| Claire Byrne | 250 | 240 |
| Brendan O'Connor | 240 | |
| Bryan Dobson | 209 | |
| George Hamilton | 193 | 192 |
| Darragh Maloney | 184 | |
| Nicky Byrne | 182 |