The Salaries of All the Popular News Anchors

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$3.8 million

As an anchor for the CBS Evening News and a correspondent for 60 minutes, O’Donnell makes $3.8 million each year (down from a high of $8 million) and has a net worth of $18 million. She has worked on many other different programs for CBS and was even the Chief White House Correspondent for the network from 2011 to 2012.

Norah O'Donnell

O'Donnell first worked as a staff writer for Roll Call at the beginning of her journalism career, which is a website that covers news and happenings on Capitol Hill. For NBC, she appeared on the Today ShowNBC Nightly, Dateline NBC, and two of Chris Matthews's segments. Now that she works at CBS, she became co-anchor on CBS This Morning in 2012 and then lead anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News in 2019, becoming the third woman to become the program's weekday anchor. 

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