#30. Charissa Thompson
The world of sports has been historically dominated by men, but women are getting more attention when playing sports as well as reporting the news about them. For example, Charissa Thompson has been one of the most recognizable faces at Fox Sports since 2013.
She also briefly worked for Versus, Big Ten Network, and GSN, and at the moment, she is working as a reporter for NFL games. With this impressive resume, it makes sense that she makes an estimate of $500,000 a month.
#29. Brooke Baldwin
Brooke Baldwin has been an intricate part of CNN since 2008. At CNN, she got her own show, CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, which airs on weekdays in the afternoon, and she has held this spot for years.
She has been one of CNN's top choices to cover Presidential Inaugurations sinceBarack Obama's first term. Given her long resume, it does not come as a shock that her net worth is estimated at $1.3 million, and it is only going to keep on growing.
#28. Amy Robach
Former beauty pageant queen Amy Robach has been an anchor for Good Morning America since 2014, and although she is not there all the time now, she still appears from time to time.
Throughout her whole career she has mostly worked for ABC. She was one of the few journalists who investigated Jeffrey Epstein and tried to bring his story to light, which wasn't easy for her. She still works with the network though, and she has a net work of $1.4 million.
#27. Erin Andrews
Erin Andrews is not only a sportscaster, but at this point, she is a media personality. She mainly worked at sport channels, most notably Fox Sports, but she has also hosted other shows, such as Dancing with the Stars.
Nowadays, she is mixing the best of both worlds by hosting DWTS and being a sideline reporter for Fox. The interesting part is that she makes approximately $800,000 a month for each job, and she also has several endorsement deals in her pocket, making her net worth an estimated $1.6 million.
#26. Savannah Guthrie
Savannah Guthrie pursued a career both as a journalist and as a lawyer and is now one of the most famous news anchors around. In 2011, she became a permanent co-host of The Today Show, where she has worked since.
She is also a legal analyst for the channel, and is usually their go-to when it comes to important interviews. She has interviewed everyone from Barack Obama to Donald Trump* and she makes a lot of money this way. It is estimated that her net worth is at $2 million.
#25. Tamron Hall
Tamron Hall is one of those people who can crack a joke but also know when it is time to get serious. She is most notably known for being an NBC correspondent, an anchor for MSNBC, and haivng her own show on said network, Live with Tamron Hall.
She also worked as a co-host of Today, as is currently hosting Deadline: Crime. She has done a lot of work with Investigation Discovery, a channel dedicated to crime investigations. It is estimated that Hall has around $2 million in the bank. Wow!
#24. Elizabeth Vargas
Elizabeth Vargas became known for being the host of 20/20, ABC's newsmagazine that focuses on in-depth topics, for 14 years! In 2018, she decided it was time to move on to something different, and so she left the show.
She is now working for the A&E Networks as the lea investigative reporter and she also works on their documentaries. Her work on 20/20 left her with a load of cash to spend, and her net worth is currently at $3 million.
#23. Erin Burnett
Erin Burnett is known for hosting her own show, Erin Burnett OutFront on CNN since 2011, but she has actually been in the business since 2003. She is known for her work in documentaries that involve other countries and has traveled the world to deliver the latest news.
Before CNN, she was a co-anchor on Squawk on the Street, and also worked on The Celebrity Apprentice as an advisor to host Donald Trump. Because of her hard work overseas, she has earned herself a fortune of $3 million.
#22. Bianna Golodryga
Bianna Golodryga was born in Moldova, but she grew up in the U.S., where she became a journalist. She was initially a producer for CNBC for 6 years before she became a correspondent and later a co-anchor.
She then moved on to Good Morning America and was included as one of the best journalists under 30 years old. Nowadays, she works for CNN as a senior global analyst. She has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
#21. Abby Hunstman
Abby Huntsman began her career in journalism as an intern for legendary anchor Diane Sawyer. Watching Sawyer inspired her to pursue the same career, and her first job was as producer and host for HuffPost Live.
She then started owrking as a host on MSNBC and later moved on to become a general assignment reporter for Fox News. In 2018, she left FOX and became a co-host on the famous talk show The View. Her net worth is estimated at $3 million.
#20. Robin Meade
Robin Meade really can do it all. She first was a pageant queen, but then began her career in journalism. She became known when she started working for HLN, and affiliate network of CNN.
Nowadays, she has her own show at HLN, Morning Express with Robin Meade, but she also has a lot of other projects going on, including the release of 2 country albums. Thanks to everything that she has been doing, she has amassed a fortune of $4.5 million.
#19. Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell started her career working as a correspondent for NBC in Washington, D.C. in 1976. She later became a congressional correspondent and covered the White House in the 1980s.
he slowly moved her way up to the top, becoming the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent in 1994, a position she has held ever since. She is currently hosting her own show called Andrea Mitchell Reports and has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
#18. Maria Bartiromo
It is hard to picture when Maria Bartiromo has free time considering that she hosts three shows. She has basically worked with every news network imaginable, but is now mostly working for Fox News and is known for her reports on the financial world.
She started out working for CNN and later moved on to CNBC, where she stayed for 20 years. It wasn't until 2013 that she started working for Fox, where she got her own show. She also works as a magazine columnist, which helped her net worth reach an impressive $6 million.
#17. Hoda Kotb
Hoda Kotb is one of the most familiar faces of the journalism world and on TV in general. Her first job was in a local channel in Mississippi, but her big break came as a host of The Today Show, where she is still working to this day.
Her reporting has earned her several accolades, such as an Emmy for her work as host of Today. She has also written an autobiography and several children's books, and she makes around $7 million a year thanks to all the projects she has going on.
#16. Natalie Morales
Natalie Morales grew up traveling from country to country thanks to her parents' work in the air force, which got her interested in other cultures. As soon as she left college, she landed a job as a reporter at MSNBC.
After spending four years at the network, she began working for The Today Show, which allowed her to show her talents as an anchor and further her career. She was named "groundbreaking latina in media" by Catalina magazine. It is estimated that her net worth is $8.5 million.
#15. Ann Curry
Ann Curry has been working as a journalist for more than three decades and is known for her work in natural disasters and war zones. She has traveled to many countries to report the news, and whenever there is a big event overseas, Ann Curry is there.
Like many of the women on our list, Curry worked at The Today Show. She works as an anchor at large and international correspondent, but is now focusing on her dream of founding her own media platform. She has an estimated $10 million in the bank.
#14. Chelsea Handler
While Chelsea Handler is not a journalist like the other women on the list, she does report on news and has her own talk show. She began her career as a stand up comedian before she got her own show on E!, which lasted two seasons.
In 2007, she got her second show on the E! network, Chelsea Lately, a late-night talk show focused on the latest pop culture news. After that, she switched to Netflix, where she has her own show again. It's no surprise that she makes around $It's 0 million per year.
#13. Courtney Friel
Courtney Friel first became a sports reporter and anchor for GoTV Mobile Television and hosted the World Poker Tour. After that, she hosted several other shows on the network and also worked for Court TV, E!, and Comcast Cable, mostly doing sports.
For many years, she worked for Fox News on different local channels and on the network's website. She was also frequently featured on the satire show Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld. Her net worth is around $12 million.
#12. Mika Brzezinski
Mika Brzezinsky basically grew up in the world of politics, as her father is political scientist and diplomat Zbigniew Brzezinski. While she started working as a journalist in the 1990s, her big break came as a ground-zero correspondent in the 9/11 terrorist attack.
She then worked for MSNBC and is now the co-host of Morning Joe alongside her husband, Joe Scarborough. She has written a total of three books net worth is estimated at $12 million.
#11. Christiane Amanpour
British-Iranian journalist Christiane Amanpour is one of the biggest anchors on CNN, for which she has been working since 1983. In 1983, she began working for CNN as a foreign assistant and later as a correspondent, covering the Iraq-Iran War.
She gained recognition for her reporting at war zones and was praised for her fearlessness. She then got her own show at CNN and also became the network's chief international correspondent. She interviewed world leaders and traveled the world. She is worth an estimated $12.5 million.
#10. Megyn Kelly
Megyn Kelly is best known for her work at Fox News, where she began working in 2004. She mostly reported on political and legal matters, and she eventually became the host of her own show, America Live, which aired for three years.
She then got another show, The Kelly File, where she mostly focused on politics, but in 2016, she decided to leave Fox News and start her own talk show, Megyn Kelly Today, which was canceled in 2019. Her net worth is at $15 million.
#9. Melissa Theuriau
Melissa Theuriau is one of the biggest faces in French journalism. She has been a part of La Chaíne Info since 2003. She has basically hosted every kind of news program imaginable, including a morning show, a travel show, and an evening show.
Because of her charm and good looks, she became an internet personality. In fact, she was voted as the most beautiful news reporter of the world in 2006. Her net worth is 18 million.
#8. Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow is the first openly gay anchor hosting a major primetime show, The Rachel Maddow Show, on MSNBC. But before that, she worked on radio. In 2005, she switched to television and became a panelist on MSNBC's Tucker.
Thanks to her participation in the show Countdown in 2008, she got her own show, which she still hosts to this day. In fact, the show is the highest-rating one on the network. She still works in radio here and there, and she has a fortune of $20 million.
#7. Kelly Ripa
Kelly Ripa began her career as an actress, but in 2000, she changed career paths and co-hostedLive! alongside Regis Philbin. She was so popular that the show was renamed Live! With Regis and Kelly within week, and it became one of the most memorable talk shows in history.
Ripa and Philbin worked together for 11 years before Philbin retired, making the show Live! With Kelly. Ripa has been a staple of daytime television for two whole decades, and her net worth is about $22 million.
#6. Robin Roberts
Robin Roberts grew up in Mississippi and began her work as an anchor for a few local channels and radio stations. She reported on sports news and later got a job at ESPN. 15 years later, she switched her area of work when she was hired by ABC as a featured reporter on Good Morning America.
She is also famous for her interviewing skills and has won several awards as a journalist. Nowadays she works at GMA and she recently covered the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. She has a fortune of about $25 million.
#5. Greta Van Susteren
Criminal defense lawyer Greta Van Susteren began pursuing a career in TV in the 90s, when she was hired by CNN as a legal analyst. Her exposure landed her a job as co-host of Burden of Proof and later The Point at the network.
She then left CNN and became a host of her own show, On the Record with Greta Van Susteren on Fox News, where she worked for 14 years. She was on the 94th spot on Forbes' most powerful women in the world in 2015 and is worth an approximate $35 million.
#4. Meredith Vieira
Meredith Vieira is an OG when it comes to television. Her big break came when she worked as a reporter for CBS news in Chicago in the '80s, and from then on, she got bigger and better job offers. She worked for the network until 1993, when she was hired by ABC to host the first season of The View.
She was also the original host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? from 2002 until 2013. She has had her own show, The Meredith Vieira Show, since 2014 and also hosts 25 Word or Less, which is another game show. Vieira i worth $40 million.
#3. Katie Couric
Katie Couric has been working on television since 1979. She started out as an anchor substitute at CNN and held this position until she was officially made co-anchor of The Today Show in 1991. She became the first woman to work at "the big three": ABC, CBS, and NBC.
She also hosted her own show titled Katie, which aired in the daytime. In 2004, she became part of the Television Hall of Fame, which is no small feat. After over 30 years in the business, she has decided to slow down and enjoy her $55 million in the bank.
#2. Diane Sawyer
Diane Sawyer is one of the most respected and iconic news anchors in history. She started her career fresh out of college as Richard Nixon's deputy press secretary. She then became a general assignment reporter at CBS News. For many years, she was the host of 20/20.
She was the anchor chair at ABC World News until 2014, where she decided to do behind-the-scenes work on creating specials and only doing high-profile interviews. With an impressive career like hers, it is perfectly reasonable that she is worth around $80 million.
#1. Barbara Walters
Barbara Walters is, without a doubt, the most famous television journalist in America and one of the biggest TV personalities. She basically did it all in the fifty years she worked as a journalist, before she retired in 2016.
She started as a host of The Today Show in the '60s doing stories centered around movies. She became the first female co-anchor on a TV show back in the day. She has done countless specials and hosted many shows over the years. She is worth approximately $150 million.