Brooke Baldwin — $153K

Although not the highest-paid anchor on the list, this salary is still impressive, considering that Brooke Baldwin anchors a 2-hour show on weekdays. This doesn’t mean she’s part-time either, and she has hosted the new years’ eve live show and covered the inauguration of Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

Baldwin also has an award-winning CNN special report called To Catch a Serial Killer. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her coverage of the New York chokehold death protest in the wake of civilian Eric Garner’s Death at the hands of a policeman. Baldwin recently overcame COVID-19 by self-isolating, returning to work on 27 April 2020.