Meet the Top-Earning Female News Anchors Dominating TV Screens
There are many careers that pay wildly differently depending on a given person's level of prominence. But while many people understand that the average actor or musician doesn't make anywhere near the amount of money that the top 1% stars in their profession can expect, the same is true in journalism.
Even if they're on TV every day, your average journalist has a salary that might help them make a living but isn't going to afford them any trips on private jets. And given how stark wage gaps can be throughout many industries, that's often even more of a disappointing reality for women. However, there are some female news anchors who found the right position to count themselves among the nation's privileged class. And in some cases, that's by a factor of millions.
Rachel Maddow - $30 Million A Year
Rachel Maddow got her start in radio and first attracted audience attention with the show Unfiltered, which saw her work with Public Enemy's Chuck D and The Daily Show co-founder Lizz Winstead. And while its cancellation in 2005 was immediately followed by The Rachel Maddow Show, her big break would come three years later on MSNBC.
After Maddow proved a popular guest on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, the veteran broadcaster urged the network to give her her own show. Also called The Rachel Maddow Show, this program remains one of the most popular shows on MSNBC. According to Celebrity Net Worth, this enduring popularity saw Maddow's salary increase from $7 million a year to $30 million a year in 2021. This makes her the highest-paid female news anchor on television and the website estimates her total net worth at $35 million.
Megyn Kelly - $23 Million A Year
After working as a lawyer for nine years, Megyn Kelly began her controversial but incredibly successful broadcasting career at a comparatively humble ABC affiliate in 2003, where she covered the 2004 Presidential Election from Washington D.C. However, the following year would see her relationship with Fox News begin, which would rocket her to prominence by the 2010s.
Although her first primary hosting gig was a show called America Live, her popularity and backlash would skyrocket with The Kelly File, a show that Celebrity Net Worth estimated as earning her $8 million per year at its peak. Although she became the highest-paid woman in news after a 2017 NBC contract saw her earn $23 million a year, this contract would only last a year due to her penchant for inflammatory statements. Nonetheless, Celebrity Net Worth estimated her fortune's value at $45 million.
Diane Sawyer - $22 Million A Year
Although famed broadcaster and journalist Diane Sawyer got her start on CBS News in the late '70s, she's best known for her decades of work as an interviewer and anchor on ABC. In particular, she featured most prominently as the host of Good Morning America and the lead anchor of ABC World News.
Her impressive career has not only seen her interview everyone from Richard Nixon to Saddam Hussein to Michael Jackson but has earned her both Primetime and Daytime Emmys and a Peabody award. And according to Celebrity Net Worth, it's also earned her some big money. She earned $12 million a year as the host of Good Morning America, but that number ballooned to $22 million a year during the peak of her time on ABC World News. Her net worth is estimated at $80 million.
Robin Roberts - $18 Million A Year
After seeing considerable success as a college basketball player, Robin Roberts blended her knowledge of sports and journalistic ambitions well enough to join ESPN as a sportscaster in 1990. She was a regular contributor to SportsCenter until 2005, whereupon she started to transition to hard news with a personally powerful series of on-location reports for ABC during Hurricane Katrina.
Eventually, she became the co-anchor of Good Morning America and proved popular enough while hosting this show to negotiate a contract that saw her earn $14 million a year as the show's lead anchor in 2013. Roberts still holds this position today, but Celebrity Net Worth reported that it has earned her $18 million a year since 2016. Her total net worth is estimated at $55 million.
Barbara Walters - $12 Million A Year
Although much of the wealth Barbara Walters generated before her passing came from selling her partial ownership of The View, it's nonetheless true that she was once the highest-paid female news anchor on television. It's one of the many ways she made history.
According to Parade, Walters became the first woman to co-host NBC's Today in 1974 and earned about $700,000 at the time. Two years later, she co-anchored the ABC Evening News and became the first female news anchor to earn $1 million a year. She broke another record in 2000, as her work on ABC's 20/20 made her the highest-paid anchor in history at the time, with a salary of $12 million a year. Celebrity Net Worth estimated her total fortune at $170 million.
Gayle King - $11 Million A Year
Much of Gayle King's early career opportunities in media were made possible by Oprah Winfrey, as she has been an editor for the mogul's O magazine since 1999. She also got her start on television as a correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show before hosting The Gayle King Show on OWN in 2011.
Yet, while she still retains this magazine editor position, King is perhaps best known as the co-anchor of CBS This Morning, a job she has held since 2012. According to Celebrity Net Worth, her salary for this work earned her $5.5 million a year between 2014 and 2019. However, that year saw her negotiate a new contract that now sees her earn $11 million a year. The website estimates her total wealth at $40 million.
Meredith Vieira - $11 Million A Year
After getting her major network start on CBS in 1982, Meredith Vieira hosted 60 Minutes until she became pregnant in 1991. She then moved on to ABC, where she was the moderator of The View and the host of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. However, she would return to hard news after finding work on NBC's Today Show in 2006.
After years of anchoring this program and covering multiple Olympic Games, Vieira ended her tenure at NBC with The Meredith Vieira Show upon its cancellation in 2016. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Vieira earned a peak of $11 million a year during her time hosting Today and has an estimated net worth of $45 million.
Katie Couric - $10 Million A Year
For much of her career after her rise to prominence in the 1990s, Katie Couric maintained a position as one of the highest-paid news anchors in the country. According to Celebrity Net Worth, her time as an anchor on NBC's Today and Dateline saw her yield a salary of $7 million a year. And that number both grew and rebounded as her career went on.
In 2006, she moved over to CBS and covered major events such as 2011's Arab Spring, the Royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton, and the BP oil spill. During this time, her salary was estimated at about $15 million per year. Although she signed a $40 million contract with ABC shortly after, Couric eventually found herself as Yahoo's Global Anchor for $6 million a year. By the time her time with Yahoo ended, she was making $10 million a year, and Celebrity Net Worth estimates her total fortune at $110 million.
Maria Bartiromo - $10 Million A Year
After interning at CNN, Maria Bartiromo made business reporting her specialty after taking a job at CNBC, which saw her become the first journalist to report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. This period saw her host multiple shows about the stock market, but she became known for her uncanny ability to get corporate CEOs to sit in for interviews on a show called The Business of Innovation.
For her efforts, she earned $4 million a year and later $6 million a year from CNBC before moving over to the Fox Business Network and Fox News in 2013. Although her shows like Mornings with Maria and Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street remained business-focused, she became more of an outspoken political commenter after the 2016 Presidential Election. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Bartiromo earns at least $10 million per year and has an estimated fortune of $50 million.
Norah O'Donnell - $8 Million A Year
Throughout the 2000s, Norah O'Donnell was a recurring anchor on MSNBC Live and NBC's Weekend Today while also serving as a Washington correspondent for both networks. However, O'Donnell's career really started to pick up once she found new opportunities at CBS.
After securing some fill-in spots hosting CBS Evening News, she became the network's Chief White House Correspondent in 2011 and 2012 before accepting a position as co-anchor of CBS This Morning before the latter year was out. By 2019, she accepted her current position as the weeknight anchor of CBS Evening News, becoming only the third woman in the network's history to do so and earning $8 million a year in the process. Celebrity Net Worth estimates her total wealth at $22 million.
Hoda Kotb - $8 Million A Year
After spending most of the '90s working as an anchor and report for CBS in New Orleans, Hoda Kotb joined the network that eventually propelled her career to its current success in 1998. Although she was initially a correspondent for Dateline NBC and other news programs, she experienced a taste of things to come when she hosted Today for the first time in 2007.
Kotb has won two Emmys and a Peabody Award throughout her career, but her most lucrative opportunity came in 2018 when she succeeded Matt Lauer as the co-host of Today. According to Celebrity Net Worth, this promotion saw Kotb sign a new contract that earns her at least $8 million a year. Although her salary could be as high as $10 million a year, the website derived its $30 million estimate of her total net worth from this conservative estimate of her annual pay.
Mika Brzezinski - $8 Million A Year
After bouncing between ABC, Fox, and CBS affiliates throughout the early to mid-'90s, Mika Brzezinski joined CBS's flagship news organization as a correspondent for Up To The Minute in 1997. In the years that followed, she was best known for her live ground zero reports during the tragedy of 9/11 and was even broadcasting during the second plane's impact.
Despite the prestige she amassed from these reports, however, Brzezinski was eventually fired by CBS and joined MSNBC in 2007. Although her expected duties there proved overwhelming enough to prompt her resignation, there was a change of plans after Morning Joe anchor Joe Scarborough selected her as his co-host. Brzezinski has retained this role ever since and, according to Celebrity Net Worth, earns $8 million a year in her current position. The website estimates her total net worth at $20 million.
Savannah Guthrie - $8 Million A Year
After attaining her journalism degree (but before attaining her law degree in 2002), Savannah Guthrie bounced between ABC and NBC affiliates throughout the '90s before landing at a station owned by the latter network in Washington, D.C., where she reported on the September 11 attacks.
After graduating from law school, Guthrie became a trial correspondent for CourtTV before returning to NBC as a political correspondent and, eventually, the network's White House Correspondent. After contributing to Today and becoming NBC's Chief Legal Analyst, she was promoted to co-host of the popular show in 2012. She currently retains this role alongside Hoda Kotb, and Celebrity Net Worth described her as earning $8 million a year. Her total net worth is estimated at $40 million.
Trish Regan - $8 Million A Year
After working at Goldman Sachs and the D.E. Shaw & Co hedge fund, Trish Regan became a business journalist after taking a job at CBS Marketwatch in 2001. Until 2007, she was a correspondent for CBS Moneywatch and the CBS Evening News. She then moved on to CNBC, where Regan made long-form documentaries that included the Emmy-nominated project Against the Tide: The Battle for New Orleans.
Regan was an anchor for Bloomberg Television's Street Smart with Trish Regan between 2012 and 2015 but left the network to anchor The Intelligence Report with Trish Regan for Fox Business. Throughout her five-year tenure at Fox, which saw her show's name change to Trish Regan Primetime, Celebrity Net Worth described her as earning $8 million a year. However, this salary is now firmly in the past tense due to her firing on March 27, 2020.
Erin Burnett - $6 Million A Year
After serving as a financial analyst for Goldman Sachs, Erin Burnett took various behind-the-camera jobs at CNN and Citimedia before taking her first anchoring jobs at CNBC. There, she hosted the business program Street Signs and co-anchored Squawk on the Street (which featured live reports from the New York Stock Exchange) from 2005 to 2011.
Burnett then left CNBC for CNN, where she has anchored Erin Burnett OutFront since 2011. She is also the network's Chief Business And Economic Correspondent and was selected to moderate Democratic Primary debates and town halls during the 2020 Presidential Election. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Burnett earns $6 million a year at CNN and has an estimated fortune of $20 million.
Natalie Morales - $6 Million A Year
Natalie Morales attracted much of her early acclaim while serving as a morning and weekend anchor for WVIT-TV, an NBC affiliate out of Hartford, Connecticut. There, she was known for reporting on major events such as the Columbine shooting, the 2000 Presidential Election, and the aftermath of 9/11 and was celebrated by both the Latinx newspaper Diario La Prensa and Hispanic Magazine.
By 2002, Morales worked as an anchor and correspondent for MSNBC during the Iraq War, the 2004 Presidential Election, and the space shuttle Columbia disaster. She remained there until 2006 when she started work as a national correspondent on NBC's Today. She then became co-anchor of Today's third hour in 2008 before replacing Ann Curry as its news anchor in 2011. According to Celebrity Net Worth, this role earns Morales $6 million a year, and her total wealth is estimated at $18 million.
Ann Curry - $5 Million A Year
Although Ann Curry left NBC News in 2015, this followed a 30-year tenure that saw her host Today, Dateline NBC, and the NBC Nightly News. According to Celebrity Net Worth, her time on Today between 1997 and 2011 saw her serve as the second-longest-running anchor in the show's history.
Although Curry's career achievements included covering the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and various conflicts in Kosovo, Darfur, Syria, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Iraq, she's earned as much money as she has prestige. Celebrity Net Worth also credited her with a $20 million net worth but noted that Curry's salary was about $5 million by the end of her NBC run. At one point, it was as high as $10 million.
Jane Pauley - $5 Million A Year
Jane Pauley's 50-year career has seen her attract dedicated viewers on Today, Dateline NBC, and CBS This Morning. But while her career has seen decades of accolades, some of the biggest ones came fairly recently, as she received Daytime Emmys in 2015 and 2019.
And as her profile has risen, Pauley's salary has grown in kind. Although it's hard to gauge exactly what each of the many networks she's contributed to have paid her, New York Magazine wrote that NBC paid her a $1.2 million salary in 1991. The Tampa Bay Times added that the network bumped it up to at least $5 million per year by 1998. Celebrity Net Worth estimates her total fortune at $40 million.
Christiane Amanpour - $5 Million A Year
Christiane Amanpour has spent most of her career as an international reporter for CNN, and she is credited both for elevating the network's journalistic rigor and for her fearless, on-location style of conflict reporting. Her value in this role led Manpour to rise quickly after taking the job in 1990, as she would become the network's Chief International Correspondent as early as 1992.
She would continue this role until 2010 and anchored the show Amanpour in the final two years of her first term of CNN employment. After spending two years as the host of ABC's This Week, Amanpour returned to her eponymous show on CNN until 2015, this time operating out of the network's international office in London. Although she left CNN again in 2018 to anchor Amanpour & Company on PBS, Celebrity Net Worth reported Amanpour as earning $5 million a year at CNN. The website estimates her total net worth at $16 million.
Deborah Norville - $4 Million A Year
For much of her early career, Deborah Norville contributed to and hosted programs on both NBC and CBS. Although she was a substitute host for both NBC Nightly News and the CBS Evening News, this period saw her win two primetime Emmys for covering a Romanian uprising for NBC News and a destructive Mississippi River flood for the CBS series 48 Hours.
However, Norville's most long-running and lucrative role came in 1995, when she began her current job hosting Inside Edition. According to Celebrity Net Worth, her salary for hosting this program is $4 million a year, and she has an estimated net worth of $18 million.
Brooke Baldwin - $4 Million A Year
After roaming between smaller stations in Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington D.C. between 2001 and 2008, Brooke Baldwin made the jump to CNN. However, it wasn't until 2014 that was able to anchor her own show, which was called CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin.
For the next seven years, Baldwin would host this program and her breaking news coverage and live coverage of current news events earned her Emmy nominations in 2015 and 2018. Her work also earned her a Peabody Award, and according to Celebrity Net Worth, CNN paid her $4 million per year until she resigned from the network in 2021. The website estimates her net worth at $10 million.
Robin Meade - $3 Million A Year
A former Miss Ohio, Robin Meade stood out on CNN's news team as an anchor with an infectiously perky personality. While she gained acclaim for reports on disastrous vehicle accidents during the '90s and was first noticed by CNN for her coverage of a failed attack on the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, he career began in earnest on CNN's sister network, HLN.
Short for Headline News, this platform established Meade as a popular enough newscaster to make the Lycos top 20 list for beloved broadcasters. According to Celebrity Net Worth, it was also at HLN that she amassed a net worth the site estimates at $8 million. They also credit her for receiving a $3 million salary.
Poppy Harlow - $3 Million A Year
After Poppy Harlow interned at CBS while in college, she was hired as an assistant producer for CBS MarketWatch before landing a job as an anchor and reporter for NY1 News Local Edition. Harlow then moved on to the Forbes Video Network, where she worked for a year before securing her most permanent role at CNN.
After anchoring for CNNMoney.com, Harlow reported for CNN, CNN International, and HLN before she was promoted to the network's New York correspondent in 2012. Eventually, she would co-anchor the morning program CNN Newsroom, which was revamped into CNN This Morning in 2022. Celebrity Net Worth reported that she earns $3 million a year from CNN and estimated her total wealth at $8 million.
Kaitlan Collins - $3 Million A Year
Kaitlan Collins's journalistic career began at the conservative website The Daily Caller, where she served as an entertainment reporter. However, her work was of such high quality that she was promoted to White House correspondent in 2017. Before the year was out, Collins secured the same role at CNN.
She was known for her laser-focused questions and courageous reporting during this period and particularly shined during the tumultuous events of 2020. However, Collins's career would see another change by 2022, as she was selected to co-anchor CNN This Morning alongside Poppy Harlow and (initially) Don Lemon. According to Celebrity Net Worth, her salary was increased from $1 million a year to $3 million a year when she joined this program.
Alisyn Camerota - $3 Million A Year
After early work at television stations in Boston and Washington D.C., Alisyn Camerota took gigs on America's Most Wanted and multiple Ted Koppel documentaries before signing on to Fox in 1998. At first, she was a reporter and Boston correspondent before handling online materials for Fox & Friends and The After the Show Show in the late 2000s.
Although Camerota would eventually co-anchor America's News Headquarters and Fox & Friends First in 2013, that year also saw her leave Fox for CNN. She was co-anchor of New Day on this network between July 2014 and April 2021, when she started her current job as co-host of CNN Newsroom. According to Celebrity Net Worth, her salary is $3 million a year, and her total wealth is estimated at $8.5 million.
Giuliana Rancic - $3 Million A Year
Although Giuliana Rancic covered Capitol Hill news for her school's news outlet while she was earning her Master's Degree in Journalism at the American University School of Communication, her subsequent career has been much more heavily focused on entertainment news. That's because she's been the co-anchor of E! News since the mid-2000s.
This has been the central aspect of Rancic's career ever since, but she also launched a fitness website called FabFitFun, produced an MTV show called Celebrity Rap Superstar, and started a reality show on the Style network with her husband called Giuliana and Bill in 2010. Celebrity Net Worth reported that the E! Network pays her $3 million a year and estimated her total net worth at $30 million.
Soledad O'Brien - $3 Million A Year
Soledad O'Brien first appeared on the nation's screens through NBC, where she contributed to The Know Zone. She also hosted an MSNBC tech news show called The Site alongside a digital avatar named Dev Null before returning to NBC News to co-host Weekend Today until 2003.
That year saw her move to CNN and quickly become a household name while anchoring American Morning, the network's main morning news show. After this show was canceled, O'Brien hosted one of the replacement shows, which was called Starting Point. However, she eventually worked out a deal in 2013 that let her leave CNN while also obtaining rights to its documentaries through her new production company, Starfish Media Group. According to Celebrity Net Worth, she makes $3 million a year as chair of this company and has an estimated net worth of $12 million.
Connie Chung - $2.2 Million
Connie Chung's career as a newscaster has spanned over 50 years, and first came to prominence as a CBS Washington correspondent during the Watergate Scandal of the early 1970s. Since then, her career has seen her jump to NBC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC. As early as the late 1980s, she was considered one of the highest-paid news anchors on television.
After UPI described her as making $600,000 in 1983, The Washington Post reported that she received a $6 million dollar contract in 1989. The Los Angeles Times added that at the peak of this contract, she earned $2.2 million a year. Although some of Chung's positions saw her earn $1 million a year after this, future jobs at CNN established her going rate as around $2 million before her move to MSNBC. Celebrity Net Worth estimates Chung's total wealth at $80 million.
Paula Zahn - $2.1 Million A Year
Paula Zahn's journalistic career has taken her through most of America's major networks, as she co-anchored ABC's World News This Morning in the late '80s before moving over to CBS This Morning in 1990. By 1999, she would change networks again, this time taking a job at Fox News.
However, she only remained exclusive to them for two years before accepting work with CNN as well. Although her contract with Fox News lasted until 2006, Celebrity Net Worth reported that Zahn was fired by Fox News then after they discovered that CNN offered her a $2.1 million salary. At the time, Fox News had paid her about $600,000 a year. Zahn's first day of work with CNN happened to be on September 11, 2001.
Joan Lunden - $2 Million A Year
Veteran broadcaster Joan Lunden's career began in 1976 with a job at New York City's WABC-TV Eyewitness News, where she started co-anchoring weekend newscasts during the following year. She also signed on to ABC in 1976 to serve as a feature and consumer reporter for Good Morning America. By 1980, Lunden would be promoted to co-anchor of the show, where she remained until 1997.
She would find work after her time at ABC on A&E, DirectTV, and Lifetime over the decades that followed. She also won a Daytime Emmy for the documentary America's Invisible Children: the Homeless Education Crisis in America In 2007. Although it's unclear how much she earned from these pursuits, UPI reported that she earned $2 million a year while co-anchoring Good Morning America.
Martha MacCallum - $2 Million A Year
Martha MacCallum entered the world of journalism through Wall Street Television, where she worked as a business news correspondent until 1996. She then moved on to CNBC, where she was co-anchor of Morning Call With Martha MacCallum and Ted David. By 2004, she would begin on her winding yet lucrative road to success on Fox News.
She initially hosted a program called The Live Desk until 2010, whereupon she served as anchor for America's Newsroom until 2017. She then settled into her current position hosting The Story with Martha MacCallum for the cable network. According to Celebrity Net Worth, she earns $2 million a year and has an estimated net worth of $8 million.
Tamron Hall - $2 Million A Year
After spending a decade as a reporter at Chicago's WFLD-TV station, Tamron Hall accepted a role at NBC and MSNBC in 2007, which saw her cover the lead-up to the 2008 Presidential Election. Although she made one of her first impressions of viewers by filling in for Keith Olbermann, she gained a more permanent anchor job hosting NewsNation with Tamron Hall from 2010 to 2017.
During this time, Hall also became the first Black woman to co-anchor NBC's Today, specifically working on the third-hour segment of the program called Today's Take. Although she left the network after her role was re-assigned to Megyn Kelly, Hall found success on a self-titled talk show that won her a Daytime Emmy in 2022. Celebrity Net Worth reported that she earns $2 million a year and estimated Hall's net worth at $8 million.
Ainsley Earhardt - $2 Million A Year
After graduating at the top of her class at the University of South Carolina, Ainsley Earhardt worked as a reporter at WLTX-News 19 in the city of Columbia. Once she became the station's morning and noon anchor, she was voted Best Personality Of The Year by local viewers.
Earhardt would take a similar role at KENS-TV in San Antonio, Texas, in 2005 but would accept an offer from Fox News just two years later. Ever since then, she's co-hosted Fox and Friends and anchored the program's Ainsley Across America segment. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Earhardt earns $2 million a year from Fox News, and her estimated net worth is $6 million.
Lindsay Czarniak - $1.5 Million A Year
After securing her first on-air position at the Florida Fox affiliate WAWS, Lindsay Czarniak established herself as a sports reporter for cable channels like Speed and TNT. She also worked as a pit reporter for the NASCAR Nationwide Series races but got her biggest early break as the co-host of The George Michael Sports Machine on the Washington D.C. TV station, WRC-TV. During this time, she flew to Turin to cover the 2006 Winter Olympics.
In 2011, Czarniak left WRC-TV to accept an offer from ESPN, where she covered preseason football games on SportsCenter before becoming co-host of the program. She also hosted ABC's coverage of the Indianapolis 500 in 2013, making her the first woman to host that event's telecast. After her ESPN contract expired in 2017, she joined Fox Sports in 2019 to cover NASCAR and the NFL. According to Celebrity Net Worth, she earned $1.5 million a year and has an estimated total wealth of $9 million.
Amy Robach - $1 Million A Year
Amy Robach started her career at the Charleston NBC affiliate WCBD before moving to Washington, D.C., to work at the Fox affiliate WTTG in 1999. Four years later, she was a morning anchor for MSNBC before she was promoted to become the co-anchor of Weekend Today in 2007. But in May 2012, Robach announced she would be moving on to ABC.
There, she started as a correspondent for Good Morning America and would become the show's anchor two years later. By 2018, Robach's role would change, and she would instead host 20/20. In 2020, she also took on anchor duties for a show that would eventually rebrand as GMA3: What You Need to Know. Celebrity Net Worth reported that she earns $1 million a year from ABC and estimated her net worth at $5 million.
Sharon Tay - $900,000 A Year
Sharon Tay got her foot in the broadcasting door independently, as Celebrity Net worth credited her for writing, producing, and hosting her own local news show in the late '80s before she was noticed by CBS and Fox affiliate station KCCN-TV.
She spent the bulk of her early career at KTLA, where she was promoted from a general assignment reporter to the anchor of the local Los Angeles station's early morning news. This led to some hosting work on MSNBC in 2004, but Tay eventually returned to local news and hosted KCAL's primetime newscasts for 13 years. Although Celebrity Net Worth reported her salary as $900,000 at its peak here, The Los Angeles Times reported that she was laid off in 2020 in the wake of a CBS merger with Viacom.
Vinita Nair - $800,000 A Year
After beginning her career at WGEM-TV in Quincy, Illinois, Vinita Nair worked at similar stations in Chicago and Lincoln, Nebraska, before joining ABC in 2007. There, she co-anchored America This Morning and World News Now while also serving as a correspondent for ABC News Now.
However, Nair is best known for her work with CBS, which began in 2013. In addition to being a New York correspondent for the network, Nair is also the co-anchor of CBS This Morning Saturday. According to Celebrity Net Worth, she earns $800,00 a year and has an estimated total net worth of $3 million.
Elizabeth Vargas - $750,000 A Year
After attaining her journalism degree at the University of Missouri, Elizabeth Vargas spent four years working for Chicago CBS affiliate WBBM-TV. This then opened the door for a correspondent and substitute anchor for NBC News before she switched networks and landed the roles that would define her career in 1997.
Vargas was initially a newscaster for Good Morning America but moved to weekend anchor and eventual co-anchor of World News Tonight, succeeding legendary broadcaster Peter Jennings after his passing. Celebrity Net Worth stated that her salary was $750,000 a year during her time at ABC but noted that Vargas abruptly resigned from World News Tonight in 2006 before leaving the network entirely in late 2017. Her net worth is estimated at $6 million.
Andrea Mitchell - $750,000 A Year
After she was fresh out of college and working in local radio and TV stations in Philadelphia, Andrea Mitchell took a job at the Washington D.C. CBS affiliate WTOP in 1976. Just two years later, she would start working as a general correspondent for NBC News. That network still employs her now, but Mitchell has ascended through its ranks in the decades since this foot in the door.
By 1979, she would be the network's energy reporter just in time for the Three Mile Island crisis and would start covering White House affairs in 1981. A decade later, Mitchell would flit between prestigious roles that included NBC's Chief White House Correspondent, their Chief Congressional Correspondent, and their Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent. Celebrity Net Worth reported her salary at $750,000 and estimated her total wealth at $5 million.
Anne-Marie Green - $600,000 A Year
Since Anne-Marie Green spent most of her early life in Canada, her earliest reporting jobs reflect that. After starting at a local station in Barrie, Ontario, Green worked as a reporter for Rogers Cable News before taking anchoring jobs at CITY TV and CablePulse24 in Toronto.
Her career turned stateside in 2004 when she started reporting for ABS affiliate KYW-TV and co-anchored Sunday morning newscasts. She then worked her way up to CBS News Up To The Minute in 2012 before becoming an anchor for the program and for CBS Morning News in January of the following year. According to Celebrity Net Worth, she earns $600,000 a year at CBS and has an estimated total wealth of $2 million.
