$20 million
Liberal news anchor Rachel Maddow makes $20 million annually for hosting her show The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC and has a net worth of $90 million. She began working on her very own show in 2008, after being a successful analyst for MSNBC on shows like Race for the White House. Maddow is the first openly lesbian anchor to host a major news program in the U.S.
A Stanford and Oxford graduate in public policy and political science, Maddow is passionate about politics. When she won the Interfaith Alliance's Faith and Freedom Award, Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy praised Maddow's work, saying, "Rachel's passionate coverage of the intersection of religion and politics exhibits a strong personal intellect coupled with constitutional sensitivity to the proper boundaries between religion and government."