The Highest Paid Female News Anchors & Their Super Luxurious Houses

Martha Stewart – $21.6 Million

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Television personality Martha Stewart is one of the richest women in America, thanks to her well-developed entertainment empire and the media and merchandising company Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. She became known to the audiences after hosting the television shows Martha and Marta Stewart Living.

Martha Stewart worked as a model and stockbroker before entering the show business. She was suddenly catapulted to success after releasing her very first cookbook. During the ’90s, she became the most familiar face in the food entertainment industry, and she was able to become one of the first female self-made billionaires in America.

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

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With a career like Erin Burnett’s, you could never go bankrupt! Erin Burnett is a hard-working news anchor currently hosting her own show on CNN. However, during her career, Erin chose the tough way when she decided to focus on reporting for various media from the Middle East! Burnett has appeared in numerous shows on CNBCNBC, CNN, and more, and she even hosted a live version of her own show Erin Burnett Outfront from the border of various Middle East countries! Her personal life seems to be equally fulfilling as Erin welcomed her third child earlier in August 2018!

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

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Busy as a bee, Andrea Mitchell is all about work these days. Who cares if she is 72 years old? Definitely, not her, since she is active and current as ever! Andrea Mitchell is NBC News’ Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent while she also hosts her own one-hour news show called Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC. Mitchell is also a regular face in various other important talk shows. It is estimated that Andrea’s salary is reaching $750K these days! However, of late, she was accused of claiming falsely that a woman in the gubernatorial recounts was registered as Republican, while she was, in fact, not!

Hoda Kotb – $30 Million – NBC, Today

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She is of Egyptian descent and started her career back in 1986. By 1992, Hoda Kotb was already working as a hostess and reporter for WWL-TV in New Orleans. Her skills and hard work, though, opened the doors of NBC for her and we are sure a new bank account opening was due when she started reporting for the Dateline NBC in 1998. Ten years later, she would join the Today show and in 2018, after Matt Lauer’s dismissal, Hoda became the official hostess of the successful morning show! She’s a hard-working woman who has managed to make her dream come true!

Oprah Winfrey – $223 Million

Oprah Winfrey’s career in television has been so successful that she’s already crossed the billion-dollar line! She is one of the most renowned TV personalities in the world, one of the richest and most powerful women alive, and one of the most respected public figures there ever was.

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Oprah isn’t just making history for women, though. She’s also the richest African-American of the 20th century, all thanks to her successful TV show. The Oprah Winfrey Show finished in 2011, after 25 years on the air, and it’s still the highest-rated daytime TV show in the history of the United States.

Amy Robach – $300K

ABC News television presenter, Amy Robach, has worked very hard in the broadcasting industry for the past 15 years. She was given the opportunity to replace Elizabeth Vargas as the 20/20 co-host. Additionally, she’s been a fill-in anchor for Good Morning America, one of ABC‘s most-watched segments.

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Before her big break with ABC, Robach’s professional life included jobs at WTTG and MSNBC. In 2013, she revealed, publically, that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, however, after several months of treatment, she was able to beat the disease. In a recent interview, she confessed that she wakes up feeling grateful for every single day of her life.

Norah O’Donnell – $1 Million

In 1999, Norah O’Donnell landed her first job as a newscaster for MSNBC. Her first task was to report from the Washington Bureau, but she quickly started working as a fill-in anchor for shows like MSNBC Live and Weekend Today. In 2011, she switched networks and signed a lucrative deal with CBS News.

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In CBS, she continued working as a fill-in anchor, and for a while, she was the network’s White House Chief Correspondent. In 2019, Norah finally landed the job she was looking for and became the main news anchor and managing editor for CBS Evening News. Besides that, she’s also a recurrent 60 Minutes collaborator.

Robin Roberts – $25 Million – ABC, Good Morning America

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She obtained a BA in Communication from the Southeastern Louisiana University yet little did she know that at her 57 years of age, Robin Roberts would be one of the most recognized and well-paid female hosts on TV! Roberts joined Good Morning America back in 2009 along with George Stephanopoulos and she is now counting almost ten years as the successful show’s hostess. Apart from her standard work, though, Roberts was also selected to commentate on the Royal wedding in May 2018! In October 2018, she became a mentor for the Dream Big Princess, a campaign launched by Disney. No wonder she has $25 million in her account!

Deborah Norville – $6 million – CBS, Inside Edition

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Next on our list is a lady who has been loyal to her show for more than 20 years! Deborah Norville has been around since 1979 and so, she must be having the best savings account there is! To date, she serves as the main anchor of Inside Edition, a syndicated news magazine that is actually the only entertainment news show to have been running for so long! However, Norville is not just a journalist; she is also an author, and she also has a chair in the Viacom Corporation board of directors! In 2018, Deborah opened up about her struggle with rheumatoid arthritis.

Lauren Sánchez – Estimated $3 Million

Lauren Sánchez is the perfect example of a hardworking television personality who rose to the very top after working her way from the very bottom. After all, she started as a desk assistant on KCOP-TV way before becoming one of America’s most prolific TV hosts, with participation in shows like The View and Good Day LA.

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Additionally, Sánchez became known for making cameos in multiple movies and TV shows, such as Fight Club and Cellular. You can see her hosting made-up news on the fake TV channels of movies such as The Dark NightFantastic Four, and Saw.

Kimberly Guilfoyle – $8 Million

Kimberly Guilfoyle is much more than a former co-host of the Fox News panel talk show The Five. Guilfoyle first started collecting her million-dollar income as a San Francisco prosecution attorney. Later, she married politician Gavin Newsom and became San Francisco’s First Lady for over 2 years.

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Known for being a supporter of the Republican party, Kimberly Guilfoyle parted ways with Fox News in 2018, and she reportedly joined a group of Donald Trump supporters during the 2018 midterm elections. Two years before that, she was close to becoming the White House press secretary, but she declined the job offer to sign a new contract with Fox.

Martha Stewart – $21.6 Million

Television personality Martha Stewart is one of the richest women in America, thanks to her well-developed entertainment empire and the media and merchandising company Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. She became known to the audiences after hosting the television shows Martha and Marta Stewart Living.

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Martha Stewart worked as a model and stockbroker before entering the show business. She was suddenly catapulted to success after releasing her very first cookbook. During the ’90s, she became the most familiar face in the food entertainment industry, and she was able to become one of the first female self-made billionaires in America.

Mel B – $2.6 Million

Singer, songwriter, and television personality Mel B has done it all! She started as a member of the Spice Girls, one of the best-selling all-female music groups of all-time. After the band’s separation, she released her first solo album and went on to appear in the 5th season of Dancing with the Stars.

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From then on, Mel B became one of the best-known reality TV stars in the world, receiving a spot as a judge on America’s Got Talent from 2013 until 2019. Additionally, she worked on Australian television, in the shows The X Factor and Dancing with the Stars. The final result? A whopping $50-million net worth!

María Elena Salinas – Salary Undisclosed

María Elena Salinas’ contribution to the Latin American community is vital. Back when the broadcasting industry showed no interest in providing inclusive solutions for its viewers, Salinas was representing the Hispanic communities in North and South America with her daily television program Noticiero Univision.

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Salinas was given the opportunity to interview some of the most important figures of the past 3 decades, including Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and notable Central American political leaders like Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega. After 36 years of working for Univision, Salinas decided to leave the network in 2018, claiming she needed a change.

Kimberly Hunt – $60K

Kimberly Hunt is the beautiful Californian news reporter and chief anchor for KGTV. A woman known for following the ‘action’, she’s reported live from major events like the Super Bowl and the Academy Awards, and she’s had the chance of interviewing some of the world’s most important names, including the one and only, Oprah Winfrey.

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Before turning out to be one of KGTV‘s most notable faces, Kimberly Hunt worked briefly as an ABC News political researcher. She’s married to Billy Ray Smith Jr., a former American football professional athlete who played for the San Diego Chargers during the ’80s.

Christiane Amanpour – $2 Million

Who could have guessed that Christiane Amanpour, a British-Iranian journalist from London, would end up becoming CNN‘s chief international anchor, amassing a whopping $12.5-million fortune? Amanpour rose to fame in a quite unpredictable manner, but right now she’s one of the unmistakable faces of the American news broadcasting industry.

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A CNN collaborator all the way, Amanpour is the host of the nightly interview TV show Amanpour. Simultaneously, she works for PBS as the host of Amanpour & Company. During the 1992 Bosnian War, she reported directly from location, working closely to the conflict zone.

Bianna Golodryga – Salary Undisclosed

Blue-eyed Moldovan-born journalist, Bianna Golodryga, is a woman of undeniable talent. She has the looks, but she also has the brainpower, the drive, and the supportive family to back her up. However, things weren’t always this easy for G9olodryga, who is a CNN global affairs analyst and former CBS This Morning co-host.

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In 1980, Golodryga’s parents were forced to move to the U.S. as Russian political refugees with nothing but $75 in their pockets. Back then, Moldova was still part of the USSR. Fortunately, a young Golodryga was able to turn the not-so-good situation of her childhood into a successful career on American television that’s earned her a $3-million fortune!

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