Last updated at 2:34 AM on 1st December 2010
Ministers were urged to impose a cap on fat cat salaries in the public sector yesterday.
A study revealed that 20,000 public servants now earn more than £117,000 a year.
The Government’s ‘fair pay tsar’ Will Hutton, however, warned some ‘increasingly eye-catching’ pay deals provided little value to the taxpayer.
He said high pay was not always linked to results and he urged organisations to beware of the ‘Adrian Chiles effect’ before offering ‘superstar’ salaries.
'The Adrian Chiles effect': Government 'fair pay tsar' Will Hutton has warned against the high price of celebrity, which he claims does not generate public value. Chiles was famously poached by ITV from the BBC for a six figure pay deal
Mr Chiles was poached from the BBC on a reported £6million deal to front ITV’s new Daybreak show earlier this year following his success on The One Show.
The programme, however, has received poor reviews and lower ratings than its predecessor GMTV.
Criticising the ‘cult of the superstar CEO’, Mr Hutton said: ‘ITV thought having him [Chiles] would have a very good effect. It turns out you needed a whole production team on which their success is based.’
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