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In July the BBC's annual report said it was on target to re
Future leaders of the BBC will not be paid as much as current Director General Mark Thompson, says the chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten.
Thompson, who took up his post in 2004, earned £779,000 last year and £838,000 the year before.
"If there is another director general during my time as chairman of the Trust, he or she won't be paid that," Lord Patten told BBC Hardtalk.
Lord Patten said he will "bear down" on other executive pay at the corporation.
"The basic proposal is you cap the average of senior executive pay to the median pay in the organisation," he said.
Asked whether he thought BBC executives were paid too much, Lord Patten said: "I'm sure they're worth every penny of it but they're not going to be paid as much in the future."
In July the BBC's annual report said it was on target to reduce the senior manager pay bill by 25% before the end of 2011.
The paper stated wages had been reduced by 18.3% and on average, new senior managers were paid 8.7% less than the previous post holder.
'Painful choice'
During the interview, Hardtalk's Stephen Sackur asked Lord Patten whether BBC services would suffer once the budget cuts were in place.
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