The top 6 highest paid presenters are all contractors which means they aren't treated as RTÉ staff
Ryan Tubridy leads list of top ten on-air earners for 2022 - The former RTÉ presenter was the top on-air earner at the broadcaster with stated earnings of €515,000.
After him, it's Joe Duffy that gets the second highest pay packet at €351,000, the same as what he earned the year before.
RTÉ Radio 1's Claire Byrne's earnings dropped from €350 grand to €320,833.
While Miriam O'Callaghan was paid €263 thousand in 2022.
Ray D'Arcy had earnings of €250 grand, 200 thousand less than 2019.
Brendan O'Connor is in sixth place at €245 thousand.
The top 6 highest paid presenters are all contractors which means they aren't treated as RTÉ staff.
The top paid employee at the station for 2022 was Bryan Dobson with earnings of €209,681, a small increase on his earnings of €209,282 for 2021.
Mary Wilson, Darragh Maloney and George Lee make up the remainder of the list all getting between 179 thousand and 210 thousand euro. They are all RTÉ employees.
There's also been some restated earnings for 2021, off the back of controversy at the broadcaster last year.
Communications specialist Terry Prone says Irish people love talking about the pay of presenters:
"The one thing we're always eager to know is what's your man getting paid and every other broadcaster says 'he's getting way too much, I could do that job no bother'. So it's a wonderful morning to be envious and annoyed about the figures but in fact the figures are going in the right direction, the direction of reality."
