The Salaries of All the Popular News Anchors

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$3 million

Craig Melvin has an annual salary of $3 million with a combined total net worth of $6 million. He has anchored and co-anchored many shows on MSNBC and NBC, but currently, he is working as a permanent co-host on Today Third Hour after a year working as a news anchor on NBC's Today

Craig Melvin

Melvin boosted his journalism career as a daytime anchor for MSNBC, where he covered everything from Republican and Democratic national conventions to the 2012 Sandy Hook shootings and the 2015 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics. This jack-of-all-trades quickly lose through the ranks of NBC, starting as a weekday reporter in February 2018, rising to weekday anchor in September, and securing a permanent host job in October.

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