Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough’s massive net worth is the talk of the town! The MSNBC personality brings in an impressive salary from his work on the morning talk show.
What Is Joe Scarborough’s Net Worth?
Joe has an estimated net worth of $25 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
What Is Joe Scarborough’s Salary?
The former politician earns an estimated annual salary of $8 million, per Celebrity Net Worth.
How Does Joe Scarborough Make Money?
Joe is perhaps best known for cohosting Morning Joe alongside his wife, Mika Brzezinski, and Today’s Willie Geist. They first began cohosting the show in 2007, bringing in a rotating panel of political commentators and celebrity guests onto the broadcast to discuss worldly matters. The trio has been able to maintain their place in the morning TV lineup for 18 years, lining their pockets with money from their work on the show.
In January 2025, Joe explained that he was hoping to make some big changes on the show, starting with the celebrity guests.
“For years, I have wanted us to push back and go more into the original concept of Morning Joe, which was like, yes, politics and foreign policy and the economy, but also music and film and Broadway,” the TV host told The Hollywood Reporter at the time.
“We’ve wanted to do it. And in 2022 everything was just so hot. I knew that if I wanted to actually interview artists and actors and directors, people that I’ve always loved, whether it’s Christopher Nolan or Al Pacino, that I needed to create a different space for it,” Joe continued. “So we originally created a primetime show where we would do it [Joe Scarborough Presents], and we would interview these people and pop culture figures and influential artists. But then after a while, I said, wait, this stuff is so good. I don’t want to have Christopher Nolan on at eight o’clock at night.”
Joe went on to say that he wanted his Morning Joe family “to be able to hear Christopher Nolan and Robert Downey Jr. and all the Oppenheimer people.”
“I wanted that in the morning,” he continued. “So, we moved it back to the morning, and we’ve just focused on it a lot more.”
Joe Scarborough’s Career Outside of ‘Morning Joe’
Prior to Morning Joe, he had a political career when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Florida’s 1st congressional district, where he served from 1995 to 2001. The Georgia native also hosted the show Scarborough Country from 2003 to 2007.
Joe also authored multiple books, including Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization.
In addition to his career in media and politics, Joe is a musician. He released his debut EP, Mystified, in 2017.
“Music has always been the most important thing in my life,” Joe, who is a dad to four kids from his previous marriages, told Louisville Public Media in August 2017.
Joe said that eventually, he decided to publicly release his music after years of keeping it under wraps.
“I was always a studio rat, recording in private, but I finally just decided to take a jump and see how it went,” the political commentator explained.
