It's fair to say there was little support from the public when the BBC published the list of their top earning sports presenters and pundits on Tuesday.
Particularly coming after the Corporation will be handing stars an £11m pay rise while cutting free TV licences for the over-75s.
But one particular pay increase has arguably stirred up as big a hornets nest as the others put together.... that
A year ago he was among the list of people at the Beeb earning between £260,000-£269,999.
But in the last 12 months Mohammad's salary has gone up by close on £95,000, putting him among the top 10 of the BBC's highest earning presenters and third among those fronting sports programmes.
It has led to a number of people taking to social media to ask: "Jason who?"
And he was subjected to a savage critique from Michael Hogan in the Daily Telegraph .
He wrote: "When the BBC’s latest salaries list was published at 11am on Tuesday, a bemused cry could be heard echoing around the nation. And that cry went: 'Who the heck is Jason Mohammad?'
"Once everyone had bothered Googling him several more cries went up.
"Specifically: 'How come he’s on £355,000 per year?', 'Is he really one of the Corporation’s top 10 earners?', 'Are you absolutely sure?' and 'Could it be a typo?'
"Sadly, it’s not a typing error."
The Telegraph writer suggests Mohammad, who openly admits to being a big Bluebirds fan, might have done "something pretty spectacular to earn such an increase."
"But, well, he didn’t. Most licence fee payers have literally never heard of him," he wrote before going on to savage Mohammad as "a bits-and-pieces broadcaster with a portfolio of small jobs."
Those jobs include presenting the Final Score football results show, the 606 football phone-in with Robbie Savage, the World Cup in Russia, plus work for BBC Wales.
Hogan claims none of these programmes would miss Mohammad being involved, claiming his bloated salary "is deemed to be worth four-and-a-half MPs or 15 nurses."
He argues Mohammad might tick a diversity box as a practising Muslim born to a Pakistani father. "If this is the case, it’s political correctness gone money-mad," he writes, before more scathing criticism.
"It’s thought that Mohammad was rewarded for his role in the BBC’s World Cup coverage last summer, even though nobody can remember what that role actually was," say the Telegraph.
"He’s paid more than the likes of Laura Kuenssberg, Emily Maitlis and Clare Balding. Admittedly, gender pay equality is an ongoing beef at the BBC but Mohammad outearns lots of more famous men too – John Humphrys, Jeremy Vine, Evan Davis and Nicky Campbell among them.
"Nobody could blame any of the above if they shot Mohammad a dirty look next time they saw him in the corridors of Broadcasting House. That is, if they recognised him."
Then it gets really personal, something supporters of Mohammad's broadcasting style will be perturbed at.
"Mohammad’s short, cursory Wikipedia page doesn’t list his age. Apparently he’s 43 but he looks older. He could almost certainly walk down any UK high street unaccosted," the Telegraph article continues.
"With his grey suits, bald head and agreeable-but-bland features, your eyes seem to slide off him, as if his personality is some sort of pixellated prism.
"No. It’s bonkers. Nothing personal, Jason Mohammad, but your salary is a joke. I'd say it to your face but I can't remember what you look like."
Ouch.
The whopping pay increase was also a hot topic for debate on social media, although one poster did argue he is actually underpaid... given he has to put up with fellow Welshman Robbie Savage on the flagship 606 show.
This is a small taste of some of the tweets.
The BBC's director-general Lord Hall has defended the pay of their presenters, saying they fronted some of the biggest shows on TV and would “earn significantly more elsewhere.”
He added: “Whenever we ask the public whether they want big stars on the BBC they say yes.
“They say yes because they are talented and entertaining. They also say yes as it means they are getting big value from the BBC.
“They would earn significantly more elsewhere - and recent departures to commercial rivals show this argument isn’t hollow.”
