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Courtney Friel – $12 Million – KTLA TV, Evening News

Courtney Friel is one of the fresh-faced ones in TV broadcasting. But don’t let her perfect smile fool you into thinking that she just started out the other day. While she currently works for KTLA-TV as a news anchor, she previously covered entertainment news in Los Angeles for KTTV/Fox 11. Friel also served as a frequent contributor for the late-night satire show, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. Friel has also appeared in FHM and Maxim magazines. Friel was formerly married to CBS News correspondent Carter Evans up until 2016 and they have two children together.

Mika Brzezinski – $20 Million – MSNBC, Morning Joe

Mika Brzezinski was one of the “Ground Zero” reporters during the September 11 attacks and it was the breakthrough of her career. She currently co-hosts Morning Joe on MSNBC and formerly worked as a news correspondent for CBS where she covered the 9/11 attacks. Mika has an equally prominent father, the late political scientist and diplomat Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as Jimmy Carter’s and Lyndon B. Johnson’s adviser. Mika divorced her former husband, WABC-TV news reporter James Patrick Hoffer, in 2016 at a time when rumors were rife about an affair between her and co-host Joe Scarborough. Mika and Scarborough walked down the aisle in November of 2018.

Natalie Morales – $16 Million – NBC, Today Show, Dateline NBC, and NBC Nightly News

Natalie Morales-Rhodes anchors the Today Show in the West Coast for NBC News. She also appears on some of the network’s other programs including NBC Nightly News and Dateline NBC. In 2016, along with snagging up the Today show anchoring job, she also replaced Billy Bush as the host of the network’s Access Hollywood. Before joining the journalism field, Morales previously worked at Chase Bank. Morales and her husband, Joseph Rhodes, purchased a $1 million-worth Hoboken mansion in 2002. After some home remodeling in 2008, they expanded its square footage to 3,600.

Ann Curry – $10 Million – PBS, We’ll Meet Again

Ann Curry simply must share her anti-aging secret because, at 62, she still looks like she’s in her 30s! Over her journalism career spanning three decades, Curry has covered several disasters including the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the Southeast Asia tsunamis. She’s also reported from war zones in Afghanistan, Congo, Iraq, Darfur, and Syria. Curry has also worked with several broadcasting networks over her career including NBC, KTVL, and KCBS. Curry founded a multi-platform media company in January 2015 through which she produced We’ll Meet Again, a six-part series for PBS in 2018.

Chelsea Handler – $40 Million – Netflix, Chelsea

Actress, comedian, writer, and TV host Chelsea Handler previously hosted the E! Network Chelsea Lately show from 2007 to 2014. She then partnered with Netflix on a $1o million deal, releasing a docu-series in 2016 titled Chelsea Does. Handler also hosted the talk show, Chelsea, between 2016 and 2017 for the streaming TV platform. She rightfully earned a spot on Time magazine’s 2012 list of 100 most influential people around the globe. Handler has also published numerous works including Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang (2010) and Uganda Be Kidding Me (2014). As an actress, she’s set to appear in an episode of Will & Grace in 2019.

Katie Couric – $75 Million – Yahoo!, Global News

Katie Couric most recently anchored for Yahoo! Global News, but she has hosted shows on all three of America’s big television networks. Couric anchored for NBC News between 1989 to 2006 and then joined CBS News in 2006. She stayed with them up until 2011 before finally working for ABC News until 2014. She most notably co-hosted the Today show, anchored the CBS Evening News, and served as a correspondent for CBS’ 60 Minutes. Couric ended her contract with Yahoo! News in 2017 and chose to focus on growing her production company. Katie lost her sister Emily Couric to pancreatic cancer in 2001 and her first husband, John Paul Monahan, to colon cancer.

Nancy O’Dell – $16 Million – Syndicated, Entertainment Tonight

Nancy O’Dell is an entertainment journalist who served as the host of the Miss Universe pageant from 2004 to 2006. She’s also covered the Golden Globe Awards, The Grammys, and The Emmys. O’Dell currently co-hosts the syndicated show, Entertainment Tonight, on CBS. She earned an honorary doctorate degree in Humanities from the Clemson University in 2013. O’Dell has been married twice; first to Dr. Richard O’Dell and then to Keith Zubchevich. She has a daughter named Ashby Grace with her ex-husband, Richard, and she’s also the stepmother to his two sons, Carson and Tyler.

Erin Burnett – $12 Million – CNN, Erin Burnett Outfront

Erin Burnett has quite the enviable career as an American news anchor, and we are sure that she never has to worry about the possibility of bankruptcy. She has her own CNN show dubbed Erin Burnett OutFront and she previously co-anchored Squawk on the Street for CNBC. Through her CNN show, she’s reported from several countries outside of the U.S. including Egypt, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia amongst many more international locations. Burnett has also been featured on The Celebrity Apprentice as Donald Trump’s advisor on several occasions.

Amy Robach – $1.5 Million – ABC, 20/20

Amy Robach covers breaking news for ABC’s Good Morning America. Before that, she served as the show’s correspondent and then news anchor. Robach replaced Elizabeth Vargas as the co-host of 20/20 in May 2018. Interestingly, Robach’s uncle and aunt taught performing arts at her former high school. She’s also the cousin to Matt Lindahl, a former Nashville Star contestant. Robach was previously married to Tim McIntosh but she filed for an uncontested divorce in 2008. She married her current husband, Melrose Place star Andrew Shue, on her 37th birthday in 2010. In November 2013, Robach announced on Good Morning America that she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Charissa Thompson – $2 Million – Fox, Fox NFL Kickoff

Charissa Thompson works for Fox Sports as a sportscaster and TV host, despite having a background in law and society. Thompson had her start appearing on baseball programs like The Baseball Report on FSN in 2007. From 2002 to 2006, she served as the Atlantic City lottery show’s host. She co-hosted the syndicated entertainment show, Extra, from 2014 to 2017. She also hosted Ultimate Beastmaster, a Netflix obstacle course reality show. Thompson also doesn’t have any problem exploring other ways of making money besides broadcasting. She appeared on the cover of the 2009 issue of Access DirecTV, a TV Guide-like magazine.

Erin Andrews – $20 Million – ABC, Dancing with the Stars

She might be the newest kid on the block when it comes to TV, but Erin Andrews has a long and impressive portfolio. Since the 2000s, Andrews has contributed to numerous TV productions. Her strongest suit is in sports reporting and that’s actually how she started out in her career. She’s also had an on-air presence during several major sporting events like the World Series and the Super Bowl. On top of her TV work, she’s also partnered with several brands on endorsement deals, including CoverGirl and Orangetheory Fitness. In 2017, she revealed that she had cervical cancer. After two surgeries, she was declared completely cured.

Robin Roberts – $35 Million – ABC, Good Morning America

Before Robin Roberts started her anchoring career, she attended the Southern Louisiana University where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communication. After graduation, she picked up work as a sports anchor for local radio stations and TV. She then joined ESPN as a sportscaster and stayed on for 15 years. In 2005, she became a co-anchor for Good Morning America alongside George Stephanopoulos. She chronicled her myelodysplastic syndrome treatment on the show, earning her a 2012 Peabody Award. Roberts also commentated on the 2018 Royal Wedding outside her standard work and she’s also a Dream Big Princess mentor.

Greta Van Susteren – $35 Million – VOA, Plugged in with Greta

For more than 40 years, Greta Van Susteren has graced our screens as a television news anchor and commemorator. She’s worked with several broadcasting networks including CNN, NBC News, and Fox News. Susteren is actually a former civil trial lawyer and criminal defense attorney. She lent her expertise as a legal analyst to the CNN show, Burden of Proof, alongside Roger Cossack. In 2017, she became a contributor for Voice of America. Susteren is married to John P. Coale, a lawyer as well, and they are both members of the Scientology church.

Rachel Maddow – $20 Million – MSNBC, The Rachel Maddow Show

Rachel Maddow holds the accolade of being the only openly gay woman with her own self-titled prime time news show airing in the U.S. The 45-year-old liberal political commentator and host has a PhD in Political Studies obtained from the University of Oxford. Maddow had her first crossword puzzle that she collaborated with Joe Di Pietro published by The New York Times on May 2, 2018. The Washington Post also published monthly opinion columns that Maddow wrote over a six-month period from December 2013. Maddow lives between West Cummington, Manhattan, and New York with her partner, Susan Mikula.

Andrea Mitchell – $5 Million – NBC and MSNBC, NBC News and Andrea Mitchell Reports

At 72, Andrea Mitchell isn’t about to slow down and is still very much active working as a journalist, NBC commentator, and anchor. She’s the network’s Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent. Among the events she has covered is the 2008 race to the White House. She does have her own show, Andrea Mitchell Reports, airing during the weekdays on MSNBC. Mitchell also regularly makes guest appearances on The Rachel Maddow Show and Hardball with Chris Matthews. Her annual salary flirts around the $750K area and she’s estimated to be worth $5 million.

Hoda Kotb – $12 Million – NBC, Today

Hoda Kotb is Egyptian by descent and currently works as a TV personality, author, and broadcast journalist. She serves as the main host for the morning show, Today, on NBC News as well as co-hosts the network’s entertainment-focused show. In 1998, she previously worked as a correspondent for the news magazine show, Dateline NBC. Kotb has authored several works including I Loved You Since Forever which she released in 2018. Singer Kelly Clarkson adopted that particular book into a song. She’s married to Burzis Kanga, a former tennis coach of the University of New Orleans. In 2017, they had a baby girl through adoption whom they named Haley Joy Kotb.

Robin Meade – $9 Million – HLN, Morning Express with Robin Meade

Robin Meade serves as HLN’s lead news anchor for the Morning Express with Robin Meade. Before she began her broadcasting career, Meade was a beauty queen and was crowned Miss Ohio in 1992. She has bagged a regional Emmy Award since joining HLN in 2001. She’s also a musician with two country music albums which were released in 2011 and 2013. Meade has been married to Tim Yeager since 1993. In 2017, she revealed that she’s distantly related to country singer Blake Shelton. Since 2015, when she was estimated to be worth $5 million, she’s increased her earnings by 80% and now boasts a $9 million fortune.

Megyn Kelly – $30 Million – NBC, Megyn Kelly Today

Her career as a TV show host, journalist, and criminal defense lawyer has earned Megyn Kelly a $30 million fortune. Kelly received a lot of flack following her remarks about Halloween and blackface in October 2018, leading to the cancelation of her NBC show Megyn Kelly Today. It isn’t quite clear whether it all ended because of that debacle or if the rumors are true that she had planned on quitting the show to concentrate on corresponding. However, at the start of 2019, Kelly announced that she would return to TV later in the year.

Barbara Walters – $170 Million – ABC, ABC Evening News (Retired)

Barbara Walters did pursue retirement in 2015, but that was after nearly 53 years working as a news anchor/TV show host. Walters is also credited as being amongst the pioneering women to join the broadcasting ranks. She has hosted popular shows like 20/20, The Today Show, and The View. Since 2016, there has been widespread concern about Walters and her health. TMZ reported in September 2017 that she’s become forgetful and have become fearful of falling. Most disturbingly, Radar Online reported in June 2018 that Walters had started planning her own funeral, dubbing it the “Exit Plan”.

Ginger Zee – $3 Million – ABC, Good Morning America

Ginger Renee Colonomos Zuidgeest is better known as Ginger Zee and she’s an American TV personality. She’s currently working as ABC News’ chief meteorologist and previously served as the network’s weekend meteorologist. However, it was Good Morning America that gave her prominence when she joined the show in November 2011. She also still makes regular appearances on ABC World News Tonight and Nightline. She’s also broadened her ventures, which means more money in her savings account. In 2016, she joined the 22nd season of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars as a competitor.

Paula Faris – $1 Million – ABC, Good Morning America Weekend

Paula Faris had her breakthrough when she joined ABC News in 2012 working as a correspondent. She then co-hosted America this Morning and World News Now before moving over to Good Morning America Weekend and then The View. In July 2018, Faris announced that she was bidding farewell to the two aforementioned ABC shows to take up a new role within the network. She also began a faith-based podcast as she has always been open about her faith as a Christian. She met her husband John Krueger while attending Cedarville University and they held their wedding in 2000. They have three children together.

Diane Sawyer – $80 Million – ABC, ABC World News

Diane Sawyer is perhaps one of the most recognizable faces on TV. She’s had a five-decade-long successful career as a broadcast journalist. Sawyer has served as an anchor for ABC World News and co-anchored Good Morning America. In the ’70s, Sawyer worked in the White House as one of U.S president Richard Nixon’s staff members. Years later, she was suspected to have been “Deep Throat”, the person who leaked classified information about the Watergate Scandal. Between June 2005 and June 2008, Sawyer took to the bank an estimated $12 million in entertainment income alone. She’s estimated to be worth $80 million.

Savannah Guthrie – $2 Million – NBC, The Today Show

Savannah Guthrie is a lawyer and broadcast journalist co-anchoring the NBC News show, Today. Guthrie graduated cum laude from the University of Arizona in 1993 with a journalism degree and graduated magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2002 after earning a Juris Doctor degree. She joined NBC as a legal analyst in 2007, a position she held up until 2012 when she moved to co-anchor Today as a replacement for Ann Curry. Guthrie hosts the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade alongside her co-anchor and friend, Hoda Kotb.

Tamron Hall – $8 Million – Investigation Discovery, Deadline: Crime

Tamron Hall presents Deadline: Crime on Investigation Discovery, but rumors have been rife that she might be moving over to ABC to host her own talk show come fall of 2019. Hall formerly anchored for NBC News and also served as MSNBC’s day-side anchor. Amongst the most noteworthy stories Hall has covered was the devastating 1999 Bourbonnais train accident. She also hosted Investigation Discovery’s 2016 show, Guns on Campus: Tamron Hall Investigates, to commemorate 50 years since the University of Texas tower shooting. After losing her sister to domestic violence in 2004, Hall supports Today’s Shine a Light campaign that advocates for causes including abuse, hunger, and homelessness.

Meredith Vieira – $40 Million – NBC, The Today Show

Meredith Louise Vieira served as ABC talk show The View’s original moderator from 1997 to 2006. She then co-hosted NBC’s Today starting from 2006 to 2011. On top of that, she also takes pride in being the original host of the syndicated Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Vieira married Richard M. Cohen, a CBS News journalist, in 1986 and they live in Irvington, Westchester County. Cohen has suffered from multiple sclerosis from when he was 25 and he’s also had struggles with colon cancer. The couple has three children. Gabe, their youngest son, is also a reporter.

Gayle King – $20 Million – CBS, CBS This Morning

The TV personality, author, and journalist, Gayle King, co-anchors CBS This Morning and also serves as O magazine’s editor-at-large. King started out as a WJZ-Tv production assistant before landing her first news anchoring job in 1981 with WDAF-TV. King scored an incredible interview in November 2018 with former First Lady Michelle Obama. In 2018, she became a Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame inductee. King and Oprah Winfrey are well-known buddies who met in 1976. King’s career keeps soaring high and she now boasts a $20 million fortune in her account.

Jane Pauley – $40 Million – CBS, CBS Sunday Morning

She’s 68 and still anchoring CBS Sunday Morning. Even we are jealous of Jane Pauley’s health that enables her to keep on working at her age. She previously anchored Today on NBC for 13 good years and then moved to NBC where she hosted Dateline for another 12 years. Beyond her career as a broadcast journalist, Pauley is affiliated with several organizations including the Children’s Health Fund and Freedom From Hunger. Pauley is married to Garry Trudeau, a cartoonist, and they have three children as well as two grandchildren. Pauley regularly seeks out bipolar treatment and she publicly acknowledges suffering from the mental disorder.

Deborah Norville – $6 Million – CBS, Inside Edition

You have to give it to Deborah Norville for sticking with Inside Edition for 24 years. The 60-year-old businesswoman and TV journalist definitely puts most of us to shame for holding on to a job for that long. She still serves as the show’s main anchor and the show itself holds bragging rights as one of the longest-running syndicated entertainment news programs. Norville is also an author and has frequently moonlighted in the past as a writer, including serving as the Inside Sports magazine’s contributing editor. She’s written several books on crochets and knit patterns and two children’s publications.

Jane Hanson – Unknown Net Worth – NBC, New York Live (retired)

It isn’t clear how much money Jane Hanson has raked in over the years and possibly put towards retirement planning, but her successful career leads us to believe it’s a tidy sum. She formerly co-hosted New York Live before joining WNBC-TV in 1979. Hanson went on to have a 30-year-long career as a reporter. Her work earned her nine Emmy Awards, one of which she clinched for her WNBC-TV show. In 2018, she listed her Long Island home with a $1.89 million asking price. The property, which is sprawled over an acre of land, boasts 3,250 square feet of space taken up by five bedrooms and a vaulted master located on the ground floor.

Kimberly Hunt – Unknown Net Worth – KGTV, 10News

Kimberly Hunt is an Emmy-awarded journalist who graduated from San Francisco State University. She serves as KGTV’s managing editor. As a reporter, she’s been able to interview several sitting presidents, and business, political, and military leaders. Adding on to that, she’s reported live from Super Bowl games and Academy Awards amongst other events. Hunt’s community contributions have also earned her several accolades including four regional Emmy Awards. Hunt comes from a family with a background in law enforcement, and her father recently received the Quilt of Valor award. Hunt co-emceed San Diego’s annual Shop, a sort of “big-brother mentorship” event that pairs underprivileged children and officers.

Maria Shriver – $100 Million – NBC, NBC News & Today

Maria Shriver is a well-respected and renowned top female anchor whose paychecks would probably make the rest of us re-evaluate our career choices. She was also a former First Lady of California, having been previously married to actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Shriver is the recipient of two Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award. She currently serves as a correspondent and special anchor for NBC News. On the personal end, she began dating Matthew Dowd in 2013. Interestingly, Dowd previously served as her ex-husband’s strategist during the 2006 reelection campaign.

Kelly Ripa – $20 Million – WABC, Live with Kelly and Ryan

Kelly Ripa started out as a dancer and her ballet classes paid off big time eventually. She went on to participate in Dance Party USA and Dancin’ on Air as a dancer. Ripa then got into soap operas. But that didn’t last too long because she figured that hosting was her true calling. She co-hosts Live! with Kelly and Ryan on WABC_TV, alongside Ryan Seacrest. Ripa previously had the role of Faith Fairfield in the hit sitcom, Hope & Faith, that aired on ABC from 2003 to 2006. Ripa must have a pretty good career coach who has helped steer her to make the right moves that enabled her to amass a $20 million fortune.

Barbara Walters – $170 Million – ABC, ABC Evening News (Retired)

Martha MacCallum – $8 Million – Fox, The Story

If there’s a huge event happening, you can bet that Martha MacCallum will be there covering it. She’s been at the front line of covering important happenings such as Pope Francis’ visit to the U.S. and Pope John Paul II’s funeral, interviewing former presidents and governors, and several more momentous events. MacCallum also anchored President Trump’s First 100 Days followed by The Story on Fox News Channel. In 2017, she took up the slot previously occupied by The Kelly File for her own show dubbed, The Story with Martha MacCallum. When it comes to her personal finance, she’s accumulated a growing $8 million fortune.

Katie Couric – $75 Million – Yahoo!, Global News