BBC spends £8m on 20 redundancies According to accounts published in an annual statement on their website deputy director general Mark Byford was paid £949,000 as "compensation for loss of office" in 2010-2011. In the same year, marketing executive Sharon Baylay received £392,000. A spokeswoman for the BBC said the payments were determined by an employees length of service, which is currently based on one month for each year to a maximum of 24 months. "This policy is similar to those of other organisations of similar size," she added. In total, the BBC has spent £277m on redundancy payments in the past seven years. This works out as an average of £46,200 each paid to around 6,000 members of staff who lost their jobs. The largest total amount paid out per year came between March 2011 and February 2012, when £66.4m was allocated to redundancy funds. The figure was almost matched in 2006-7, when £63.8m was given to redundant staff as a result of job cuts. A BBC spokeswoman highlighted the median redundancy payment to staff, £35,161, was less than the mean of £46,200.