Anderson Cooper – $12 million

While most TV anchors studied Journalism, CNN’s Anderson Cooper interned at the CIA while studying political science. He even took some time off from news reporting to live in Vietnam and study the Vietnamese language at the national university.

Still, with no formal training, Cooper has landed some top jobs in the media working as The primary anchor of Anderson Cooper 360⁰ for CNN and previously as a correspondent of the TV news magazine, 60 Minutes. To add to his $12 million annual salary, Cooper also inherited $1.5 million after his mother, fashion icon and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt, died in 2019.

Wolf Blitzer — $5 Million

A veteran newsman who started his career in the ’70s working for Reuters in Tel Aviv, Wolf Blitzer has been a CNN news Anchor since 1990. He has become one of the leading political news anchors at the company and has hosted the current affairs news discussion show, The Situation Room, since 2005.

Blitzer has won several awards, including the Journalists Pillar Of Justice Award. He has also built a brand so big he’s played himself in Hollywood movies such as Skyfall and Batman VS Superman: Dawn Of Justice. Blitzer also confirms that his name is not modified for TV, and his surname has been the family name for three generations.