The BBC announced its pension proposals in June The BBC has set out an alternative proposal to staff as it looks to overhaul its pension scheme.
Under the new option, pensions will be based on average pay over a career, and the BBC will not put an annual 1% cap on growth of pensionable pay.
However, employees will have to work to the age of 65 rather than 60 and put a greater proportion of their salary into a pension pot.
BBC staff voted to strike over the previous pension plans.
In June, the BBC announced plans to overhaul its pension scheme to try to tackle an estimated £2bn deficit.
The corporation said the changes were essential to tackle the ballooning deficit in the pension scheme, which stood at £470m two years ago.
These proposals included closing the final-salary pension scheme to new joiners and imposing a cap on the amount pensionable salaries of existing members can grow to 1% per year.
Alternatively, members could leave the final-salary scheme and join a new defined contribution scheme which is also being offered to new recruits.
Earlier this month, it was announced that BBC staff members had voted in favour of strike action in response to these plans.
Bectu and the National Union of Journalists said more than 90% of members had voted for a walk out. But the unions postponed the decision on whether to strike for two weeks while it discussed alternative proposals with the BBC.
The fresh plans, which BBC director general Mark Thompson set out in an e-mail to staff on Monday, suggest adding an extra option of a pension based on a career average of salary.
Employees could leave the final-salary scheme and join the so-called CAB 2011 scheme.
The benefits would be based on average pay from joining CAB 2011 to the end of working for the BBC. There would be no cap on how far this average could grow if members receive pay rises or get a promotion.
However, these employees would have to pay higher contributions than the current career-average (CAB) scheme, which is due to close to new members. Contributions will be 7% compared with 4% in the current CAB scheme.
Accrued pensions would rise at 1.67% of salary per year, and those drawing the pension would see their pot increase at the lower of Consumer Prices Index inflation or 2.5%.
“It is not a panacea, but in the terms I have set out above it is affordable, and I believe it goes a significant way to addressing the concerns you’ve expressed to us during the consultation,” Mr Thompson said.
The moves are the first major changes by a publicly-funded organisation to pensions.
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