Charissa Thompson
Charissa Thompson has had a long career as a sportscaster working with the larger networks such as ESPN, Versus, the Big Ten Network, and GSN. She now works at Fox Sports.
She also works as a sideline reporter covering college football and basketball games for the Big Ten Network. It has been reported that her annual salary is $500,000.
Abby Huntsman
Abby Huntsman is the daughter of former governor of Utah Jon Huntsman Jr. At just sixteen years old, she began an internship on Good Morning America. This was a great start for her career in journalism.
She climbed the ladder over the years until she became a general assignment reporter for Fox News. She was also a co-host on The View for two years, and her annual salary is estimated at $3 million.
Ginger Zee
Ginger Zee is the chief meteorologist on ABC News, which had always been her dream job. In fact, she set a goal for herself when she was in university that she would become a meteorologist on The Today Show before she was 30 years old.
She actually did it right before her 30th birthday. She has worked for several shows over the years, and her annual salary is around $500,000.
Erin Andrews
Erin Andrews is more than a familiar face nowadays. She began her career as a sportscaster, which she still is today, but has also been involved in multiple other industries.
She earns an estimated $800,000 as a sportscaster, and, thanks to her job as the Dancing with the Stars host, she makes $700,000 on top of that. She also has endorsement deals for around $100,000.
Paula Faris
Paula Faris started out as a production assistant at WKEF/WRGT. Her dream was to become an anchor, and eventually, her dream came true.
A few years later, she joined ABC as part of World News Now and America This Morning. She also co-hosted Good Morning America and The View. She reportedly earns $565,000 per year.
Kelly Ripa
Kelly Ripa was an actress before she became a host. She rose to prominence as Hayley Vaughan on All My Children, where she stayed for 12 years.
She began co-hosting Live with Regis and Kelly in 2000 alongside Regis Philbin. She later co-hosted the show with Michael Strahan, and now her current co-host is Ryan Seacrest. It has been reported that her annual income is at $22 million.
Nancy O’Dell
Nancy O’Dell was a beauty queen before she found her passion for television. She became Miss South Carolina and started working as a reporter in Myrtle Beach, her hometown, not long after.
She worked for Access Hollywood from 1996 to 2009 and is now a special correspondent on Entertainment Tonight. She earns a reported salary of $2 million.
Megyn Kelly
Megyn Kelly started working at Fox News in 2004. She first hosted a legal segment during Weekend Live and later she was on The O’Reilly Factor. It wasn’t until 2010 that she got her own show: America Live.
She stayed with the network until 2017 when she decided to join NBC News. Her annual salary is currently estimated at $23 million.
Martha MacCallum
Martha MacCallum began working for Fox News in 2004 and still remains on the network. She has been featured in many programs, such as The Kelly File and The O’Reilly Factor.
She currently hosts The Story with Martha MacCallum. She is known for interviewing notable public figures for her show, such as Barack Obama and John McCain. She reportedly earns $700,000 a year.
Ainsley Earhardt
Ainsley Earhardt studied journalism at the University of South Carolina and began her career before she graduated. Her first job was as a reporter for a local CBS station.
She moved to Texas in 2005 and stayed there for two years. After that, she began working for Fox News and now makes around $400,000 a year.
Savannah Guthrie
Savannah Guthrie studied law at Georgetown University before deciding to pursue journalism. She worked in broadcasting in several places, until she had her big break.
She became a part of The Today Show in 2012, and in 2018 she became co-anchor alongside Hoda Kotb. It is reported that she earns $7 million a year.
Katy Tur
Katy Tur worked for local stations in New York and was even a weather girl for a while before she had her big break in broadcasting in 2009.
She has been very busy since then working as an anchor for NBC News. She also wrote a book titled Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History. She earns $1.3 million a year.
Michael Strahan
Michael Strahan wasn’t always involved in the broadcasting business. He actually spent 15 years in the NFL as a New York Giants defensive lineman. He then became a football analyst on Fox NFL Sunday.
Strahan co-hosted Live With Kelly and Michael from 2012 to 2016 and these days he hosts The $100,000 Pyramid. It is estimated that he earns $17 million a year.
Hoda Kotb
Hoda Kotb’s first job on television came as a correspondent for Dateline NBC in 1998. Ten years later, she became a co-host of the fourth hour of the Today Show alongside Kathie Lee Gifford.
She has been the third co-anchor on Today since 2017. After Matt Lauer exited the show in 2018, Kotb received a pay raise and now earns $7 million a year.
Anderson Cooper
Anderson Cooper got his first job as a journalist right after he graduated from Yale in 1989. He worked for Channel One News and then was hired by ABC News.
He has worked for CNN since 2001 and has his own show, Anderson Cooper 360°. It is estimated that his annual income sits at $12 million.
Brian Williams
Brian Williams has had a long career in journalism. He was an anchor on NBC and reportedly earned an impressive $15 million a year.
After he was demoted following a scandal, he became a breaking-news anchor on MSNBC. He now earns approximately $10 million a year.
George Stephanopoulus
George Stephanopoulus had a career in politics before he became a journalist. He even became Bill Clinton’s senior advisor during his presidency but decided to pursue a career in television in 1996.
He began hosting This Week on ABC News in 2002 and is still doing so to this day. He is also a chief political correspondent on Good Morning America. His annual income is $15 million.
Melissa Francis
You may remember Melissa Francis from Little House on the Prairie, where she played Cassandra when she was a child. She continued acting mostly in commercials for many years.
She then began work as a reporter in 2012, when she became an anchor for Fox Business Network. Her annual income is estimated at $400,000.
Deborah Norville
Debora Norville is the anchor of Inside Edition and has been since 1995. But journalism isn’t her only source of income. In fact, she has been involved in several business ventures over the years.
Most notably, she sells a line of yarns called Deborah Norville Collection and has also written a book called Thank You Power. She reportedly has a yearly income of $1 million.
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity has been involved in radio broadcasting since the 1980s and has hosted The Sean Hannity Show since 1990.
He has his own show, Hannity, on Fox News and has also written three books. Thanks to all his different endeavors, he brings home $29 million a year.
Robin Roberts
Before becoming an anchor on Good Morning America, Robin Roberts worked as a sportscaster. Her first job came in 1983 on a local channel in Mississippi.
She then worked for ESPN until 2005 to join Good Morning America. It is reported that she earns $18 million a year on the show.
Chelsea Handler
Chelsea Handler is an actress, writer, talk-show host, and comedian. She worked as a correspondent on The Tonight Show until she got her own show, The Chelsea Handler Show, in 2006.
Her show ended in 2014, and she struck a deal with Netflix for a new show called Chelsea Does, which has been running since 2016. She reportedly earns $10 million a year.
Shepard Smith
Shepard Smith worked in numerous local stations in his home state of Florida before becoming a correspondent for A Current Affair in California. This allowed him to move up within the ranks of Fox News.
He worked for the network from 1996 to 2019. He moved on to join NBC and CNBC as a general news anchor and reportedly makes $10 million a year.
Josh Elliott
Josh Elliott started his career as a panelist on ESPN’s Sportscenter and later became a host of the show. After that, he worked for numerous shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC.
He was let go by CBS in 2017 and hasn’t appeared on television since then. During his time working with the network, he reportedly earned $4 million a year.
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow first worked in radio broadcasting before moving on to television. She worked as a regular panelist on MSNBC’s Tucker and as a political analyst for Race for the White House in the early 2000s.
She started hosting her own show, The Rachel Maddow Show in 2008 and still does to this day. She reportedly earns $7 million annually.
Scott Pelley
Scott Pelley has been an anchor and correspondent for CBS News for an impressive 31 years. He also worked as anchor and managing editor for CBS News from 2011 to 2017.
On top of his career in broadcasting, Pelley wrote a book in 2019 titled Truth Worth Telling. It is estimated that his annual income is $5 million.
Bret Baier
Bret Baier rose to prominence as Fox News’ Pentagon correspondent in 2001, a job he kept for five years. He then became a White House correspondent for the network.
He has hosted Special Report with Bret Baier since 2009 and is now the chief political correspondent for Fox News. His income is estimated at $7 million a year.
David Muir
David Muir served as the substitute anchor on World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer and succeeded her upon her departure in 2014. Because of his work, he has won several Emmy awards.
He is also the current co-anchor of 20/20 on ABC News. Both jobs allow him to bring in $7 million a year.
David Gregory
David Gregory hosted NBC’s Meet the Press for several years before being replaced by Chuck Todd. It was reported that he earned $5 million a year working on the show.
After leaving NBC, Gregory joined CNN as a political commentator for the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. He has been lying low since then.
Diane Sawyer
Diane Sawyer was famously part of Richard Nixon’s White House staff in the 1970s. After Nixon’s presidency ended, Sawyer became a correspondent for CBS.
She has hosted numerous shows over the years, including 20/20, 60 Minutes, and Good Morning America. She brings home $9 million a year.