Kathie Lee Gifford — $2 Million

Having spent 11-years hosting the Today show for NBC, Kathie Lee Gifford has left the program to pursue her interest in acting and film making. She’s no stranger to long stints on a show and previously hosted Live! With Regis And Kathie for 15-years.

Other than her work in broadcast, Gifford is also a recording artist with 14 albums to her name. She has made various appearances in movies such as The First Wives Club and Sharknado 5. Gifford has already filmed a film called Then Came You, along with a Christmas movie called a Godwinked Christmas.

Hoda Kotb — $7 million

As co-anchor of the NBC Today show with Savannah Guthrie, Hota Kotb is part of the first all-female hosting pair in the show’s history. Before this, she was the co-anchor of the shows fourth-hour entertainment segment alongside Kathie Lee Gifford, for which she won a daytime Emmy in 2019.

Kotb also hosts an online radio show on Sirius XM and authored four books, one a New York Bestselling autobiography called Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee. She published another in 2019 called I Really Need This. Kotb also has several Gracie Awards and a Peabody Award for her work on NBC Dateline.

Kelly Ripa — $22 million

Kelly Ripa became a household name in the ’90s playing Haley Vaughan in the American soap All My Children. In this period, she also had a role in the Hollywood film Marvin’s Room, alongside Meryl Streep and Leonardo Di Caprio. But none of this helped her become the current host of morning show Live! With Kelly and Ryan.

Despite her profile from All My Children, Ripa still went through a live Audition procedure and beat out several candidates, including Dolly Parton. She helped raise the show profile with younger audiences and outlasted initial co-host Regis Philbin, now hosting the show with former Idols host and producer Ryan Seacrest.