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1. Scott Mills (£745,000-£749,999)
2. Greg James (£440,000-£444,999)
3. Stephen Nolan (£425,000-£429,999)
4. Laura Kuenssberg (£405,000-£409,999)
=4 Vernon Kay (£405,000-£409,999)
6. Alan Shearer (£390,000-£394,999)
7. Justin Webb (£375,000-£379,999)
8. Naga Munchetty (£360,000-£364,999)
9. Fiona Bruce (£345,000-£349,999)
10. Sophie Raworth (£340,000-£344,999)
The above list includes on-air talent only, and not BBC executives
As Mills was sacked by the BBC just a few days short of the financial year ending, the £745,000 listed in the annual report represents almost his full annual salary.
That includes his tenure on the Radio 2 breakfast show as well as other BBC work, including several editions of Scott & Rylan's Pop: Top 10 podcast.
Sara Cox recently took over as the host of Radio 2's breakfast show, with the BBC yet to announce who will permanently replace her at teatime on the station.
In March, it emerged that Mills had been accused of serious sexual offences involving a teenager under 16 in the late 1990s.
A police investigation was launched in 2016, which Mills said he "fully co-operated" with, before it was closed in 2019 after prosecutors decided there was insufficient evidence to bring charges.
Mills's salary in his final year was a significant increase on the £355,000 he earned in the previous financial year, when he hosted Radio 2's afternoon show for 10 months and the breakfast show for two.
His predecessor at breakfast Zoe Ball was paid more than £1.36m during her first year presenting the Radio 2 breakfast show in 2019.
However, Ball's salary reduced over the six years she was on breakfast, and she earned just over £950,000 on her final full year in the job.
That means the BBC saved about £200,000 when it replaced Ball with Mills. Ball no longer appears on the list and recently left Radio 2 for Greatest Hits Radio.
