Lisa Wilkinson and Karl Stefanovic’s Today show salaries are finally revealed

Lisa Wilkinson and Karl Stefanovic’s Today show salaries are finally revealed – as she insists she ‘wasn’t asking for pay parity but just wanted a raise’

Lisa Wilkinson and Karl Stefanovic’s Today show salaries have finally been revealed, four years after she quit Channel Nine over a reported gender pay gap dispute.

Wilkinson, 61, was earning $780,000 a year on a two-year contract when she left the network in late 2017, according to The Australian.

Meanwhile, Stefanovic’s three- to five-year contract was said to be worth between $2million and $3million annually, depending on the show’s performance.

Money matters: Lisa Wilkinson and Karl Stefanovic’s Today show salaries have finally been revealed, four years after she quit Channel Nine over a reported gender pay gap dispute

Despite reports Wilkinson demanded equal pay with co-host Stefanovic, she claims in her new book she was just asking for a ‘slightly fairer share of the spoils’ given the Today show’s profitability.

In an excerpt from her autobiography, It Wasn’t Meant to Be Like This, she writes: ‘I wasn’t even asking for Karl’s pay, I was just asking for a slightly fairer share of the spoils that had come from the Today show’s increasingly profitable position in the hugely lucrative breakfast TV market – even more so now that we were at No. 1.

‘We were a show turning over $60million a year, with well over half of that in profit. But it was the massive gap between Karl and me that was at issue.

‘By staying quiet, I would be complicit in perpetuating the gender pay gap for every woman who came after me.’

Channel Nine refused to comment when contacted by Daily Mail Australia.

Wage: Wilkinson, 61, was earning $780,000 a year on a two-year contract when she left the network in late 2017, according to The Australian

Wilkinson left the Today show in October 2017.

At the time it was widely reported the Nine Network was ‘unable to meet her expectations’ after she demanded equal pay with Stefanovic.

Nine’s then-CEO Hugh Marks said she had asked for $2.3million per year, which would have surpassed Stefanovic’s base annual salary of $2million.

Salary: Meanwhile, Stefanovic’s three- to five-year contract was said to be worth between $2million and $3million annually, depending on the show’s performance

He added that Wilkinson’s other media deals, including with the now-defunct HuffPost Australia website, also affected her salary.

‘The reason we walked away from Lisa is because we are not able to secure [other] rights with her,’ Mr Marks said.

‘She has a number of commercial rights with other parties. Her arrangement with the Huffington Post restricts our ability to engage with her digitally – we are restricted from engaging with her also on social media.

‘I hate the fact we have to compare her with Karl, but with him we have all those rights. With Lisa we do not.’

‘I wasn’t even asking for Karl’s pay’: Despite reports Wilkinson demanded equal pay with co-host Stefanovic, she claims in her new book she was just asking for a ‘slightly fairer share of the spoils’ given the Today show’s profitability

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