The 51-year-old replaced Zoey Ball, who helmed the show from 2019 until December 2024.
Ball was the BBC’s highest-paid on-air female presenter in 2023/24, with a salary between £950,000 and £954,999.
This was only behind Gary Lineker in terms of the highest-earning talent, according to the corporation’s annual report published in July last year.
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— Scott Mills (@scott_mills) January 18, 2025
Mills had a 2023/24 salary of £315,000 to £319,999, up from £300,000 to £304,999 during the previous period.
It is expected to go up again thanks to the new Breakfast Show role, but how much is it?
What is Scott Mills’ salary for BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show?
Details about Mills’ salary have not been made public yet but will do so as part of the BBC’s annual report in the summer.
Speaking to The Sun about brushing off any potential criticism about his pay, he said: “I’ve been doing this since I was 16 and I’ll tell you how much I got paid then — £20 a show. And it was a five-hour show in the middle of the night, 1 until 6am.
“Obviously there’s always curiosity around salaries because they get published every year.
“But I don’t think you can say that I haven’t played the long game.
“It’s not like some hotshot’s turned up and is earning all this cash. No one likes discussing money.
“But here’s the thing, what you don’t get is people going, ‘Oh, I bet you’re getting paid loads’.
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“What you get is people that have listened to you through school, college, uni, work, marriage, divorce, marriage again, kids.
“So they’re actually just full of congratulations. And I think the same will be true about the dreaded ‘S’ word — the salary. I don’t think anyone will be like, ‘Well, he doesn’t deserve that’.
“I hope people won’t think, ‘Well, he hasn’t worked very hard for that,’ because I’ve worked for this my whole life.”
