The most controversial trio from BBC Top Gear has started their new job with Amazon. It is a common belief that starting a new job is always a tough task and making more than you were earning from a previous job is also a tough job.
For the former Top Gear trio of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May said that they will earn more than their previous job with BBC Top Gear. According to the multiple sources, Amazon will be paying the three hosts multimillion dollars every year. Sources said that the trio and the executive producer will be paid handsomely far more than their former bosses at the BBC UK.
Based on the new fee, Jeremy Clarkson will become the highest paid host on the television in the history of United Kingdom. Remaining three partners of Jeremy, including Richard Hammond, James May and the Producer EP Wilman will be paid at the rate of $11 million dollars per year.
A news source named The Telegraph is reporting The Orangutan, as he is not warmly known by his co-hosts, making 9.6 million pounds or according to the today’s exchange rates, $14.7 million per year.
At Amazon, this team will earn about $1.225 million for each episode. There are 36 episodes planned to be produced. Daily Mirror on other hand, claims that each of them will make around 915,000 dollars for each episode.
These figures will shock you even more when you will compare the fees given by the BBC to their co-hosts, because it is a publically funded broadcasting which gets from license fees.
They paid to their hosts only a tenth of the new earning. Jeremy Clarkson was earning $1.53 million from Top Gear. The part of this earning was paid by the BBC Worldwide that has the rights to sell the Top Gear around the world and earning $230 million every year across the globe.
Fans of the trio will have to wait till next year to see them in action at Amazon.
