Pay freeze for SRG management has been lifted
Following the lifting of the pay freeze, the new salaries for SRG’s executive board have already been set, but the figures will not be published until next year. According to spokesperson Daniel Steiner, there will be «no major increases.».
SRG announced on Tuesday that its board members will earn roughly the same this year as in 2007. The management, on the other hand, can probably hope for more pay: The freeze on basic salary increases that has been in place for the past two years was lifted at the beginning of 2008, as Blick reported on Wednesday. The basic salaries for the ten-person management team for 2008 have already been set. However, the figures will not be published until next spring with the 2008 annual report. There does not seem to be too much in it for the SRG bosses: spokesman Daniel Steiner told Blick that there will be "no big jumps". According to Blick, SRG Director General Armin Walpen earned CHF 540,000 last year, compared to CHF 534,000 the year before. According to Blick, the average salary of the other members of the Executive Board rose from CHF 364,000 to CHF 372,000. The slight increase was made possible by higher performance-related components, as the pay freeze only applied to the basic salary.
