When Deborah was a senior in high school, she was her town’s Junior Miss contest winner. She credits competing in the 1976 America’s Junior Miss pageant and seeing the behind-the-scenes work to inspire her to want to work in T.V. journalism. While Norville was still in college, she started to work on television. She got an internship working for Georgia Public Television. After graduating college, became a full-time reporter and weekend anchor for WAGA-TV. In January 1987, she joined NBC News as the anchor of NBC News at Sunrise. She became the only female anchor of a network newscast.
After she joined the cast, the show’s ratings increased by 40%. In 1989, she became a news anchor of Today. Since the mid-’90s, she has held the same job with CBS News magazine as the anchor of Inside Edition. If that’s not enough, she also has her own yarn business. From her yarn business, The Deborah Norville Collection, she makes $1 Million. Not bad, Deborah!
Paula Faris – $565K
Getting your big break takes a lot of hard work, and many times, there are roadblocks and major struggles along the way. Paula Faris is very familiar with the effort it takes to achieve your goals. Before she landed her huge broadcasting break, she struggled for a number of years. She landed her first big role after working in communication jobs and radio sales. Becoming a production assistant with WKEF/WRGT allowed her the in that she needed; she has been working her way up the ladder ever since.
From 2002-2005 she worked on WCPO-TV in Cincinnati as the sports anchor. From 2005-2011, she moved to Chicago to work as a sports reporter and anchor. In 2014, ABC signed her on as a co-anchor on Good Morning America Weekend. Since working at ABC, she has been on World News Now and America This Morning. She is estimated to make around $565,000.
Martha MacCallum – $700K
A lot of reporters and anchors bounce around between networks. Since 2004, Martha MacCallum has been loyal to delivering the news on Fox News strictly. But, before landing her role on the network, she was also a reporter on NBC/CNBC. For the last 15 years, she has worked as a reporter, anchor, and correspondent on the conservative network.
She has been on several shows like The Live Desk, America’s Newsroom, The Kelly File, and The O’Reilly Factor. She has also covered the last four presidential campaigns and Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. She has gotten the honor to interview many big figures throughout the years like President Barack Obama, John McCain, and Laura Bush. She makes $700,000 per year.
Jane Pauley – $1.2M
When you’ve been working in the news since you were just 20-years-old, It’s clear that delivering the news is your life calling. Impressively, Pauley started working in the news in 1972, and she hasn’t slowed down since. Pauley has become one of the most known and veteran broadcasters in our list. She was an anchor on NBC’s Today for 13 years and co-hosted stint on Dateline NBC for 12 years. Nowadays, you can find her anchoring CBS Sunday Morning.
Jane hasn’t only shown the world that women are fully capable of working in the news but also that mental health disorders don’t need to stand in the way of your dreams. Jane has made her own struggle with bipolar very public. She makes around $1.2 million and has an estimated net worth of $40 million. That’s what nearly 40 years in the field will get you!
Brooke Baldwin – $1.3M
Brooke Baldwin has worked for CNN since 2008. She is the current host of the CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, which is aired from 2 pm to 4 pm (ET). Her career started in Virginia in 2001 when she worked at the WVIR-TV. After that, she worked as a morning anchor at WOWK-TV. She joined WTTG in Washington before switching to CNN Atlanta.
Besides working as an anchor, she hosts many big events like the New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin. She has made an impressive net worth, which is estimated to be around $1.3 million.