Elizabeth Vargas | $750,000

As they say, no one started big, and every famous personality known today began working small. Take Elizabeth Vargas, for example. She started her broadcasting career at WOMU-TV while working on her degree in journalism. The now-58-year-old journalist then shifted to WBBM-TV in Chicago until she finally made it on NBC News, working as its correspondent and sub anchor. Vargas then moved to ABC and became Good Morning America’s newsreader and World News Tonight’s weekend anchor.

By the looks of it, Vargas has worked for the major networks when it comes to news reporting. She becomes the lead investigative reporter and documentary anchor for A&E Networks and is currently America’s Most Wanted host. It can’t be denied that she has already made it incredibly big in this business. Who would have thought that the hard-working University of Missouri student would come this far?