Martha MacCallum – $8m
Martha MacCallum started her broadcasting career at Wall Street Journal Television from 1991 to 1996. She was the anchor and business news correspondent for The Wall Street Journal Report, Business USA, and World Market Outlook. Then she got into a sports and business station as an anchor and reporter. MacCallum moved to NBC/CNBC and appeared on Today, The News with Brian Williams, and other NBC affiliate news programs. Working her way up, she was then designated to co-anchor CNBC’s Morning Call with Martha MacCallum and Ted David.
In 2004, MacCallum became a part of the Fox News Channel where she covered the presidential elections in 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016. She also co-anchored the coverage of the visit of Pope Francis to the United States. MacCallum hosted The Live Desk from 2006 to 2010 and America’s Newsroom in 2010 until 2017.
Billy Bush – $3m
Billy Bush, a member of the Bush family, is known for being a correspondent for the daily entertainment newsmagazine, Access Hollywood. He started in December 2001 and left in 2016. Bush began his TV work on a short-lived NBC show called Let’s Make a Deal and later, he became a correspondent for WNBC-TV’s Today in New York morning show. After which, Access Hollywood came, and in three years, he became a primary anchor. When he left Access Hollywood, he became a co-host in the third hour of Today.
But in 2016, he got involved in a controversy when a recording of him and presidential candidate Donald Trump having an indecent conversation was discovered. This led to him being fired from Today.
Savannah Guthrie – $1 Million
Savannah Guthrie’s start in broadcasting was at KMIZ, an ABC affiliate, where she worked for two years and then she took a job with NBC affiliate KVOA. Five years after, she moved to WRC-TV wherein she covered major stories such as the 2001 anthrax attacks and September 11, 2001, attack on The Pentagon. She later resumed her higher education and received her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center.
In 2007, she became a correspondent for NBC News and a few months later, she was the White House correspondent. Guthrie also anchored NBC News and was the substitute anchor on NBC Nightly News. She also substituted Ann Curry and Meredith Vieira on Today and eventually became the co-host of the 9 am hour as well as the Chief Legal Editor.
Jon Stewart – $25m
Jon Stewart started as a stand-up comedian, but through the years, he has become a prominent figure in entertainment and media. He is not only a comedian, but he is also a television host, producer, writer, director, actor, singer, and political commentator.
He first had his own talk show, The Jon Stewart Show and later, You Wrote It, You Watch It, which both aired on MTV. But it was The Daily Show, a satirical news program, where he became a household name. The show was on Comedy Central that ran from 1999 to 2015. He was also a co-executive producer and writer of the show, which won 22 Primetime Emmy Awards.
Sage Steele – $400k
Sage Steele was born into sports. Her father was Gary Steele, the first African-American to play varsity football at West Point. She has two brothers who are also involved in the sports industry. It’s no wonder that she studied Bachelor of Science in Sports Communication at Indiana University Bloomington.
Steele is the co-host of SportsCenter on ESPN. She also hosts SportsCenter on the Road, which took her to different sporting events such as The Masters and the Super Bowl. The 46-year-old previously hosted NBA Countdown on ESPN and ABC as well as the NBA Finals in 2012 and 2013 on SportsCenter’s daytime coverage.