Fredricka Whitfield | $95,000 Per Year

Fredricka Whitefield is a news anchor and journalist who is based in CNN’s world headquarters in Atlanta. He anchors the CNN Newsroom weekend edition, and her works span more than three decades of reporting. She has work credit for stories from the Cuban-Haitian refugee crisis to the Bush-Gore 2000 presidential race and the Kosovo war crisis. Before being with CNN back in 2002, Whitfield served for NBC News as a correspondent, also appearing on NBC Nightly News and in the Today Show.

As a veteran journalist who has covered various important and historical events not only in the country but around the world, Whitfield has been paid millions during the course of her work, resulting in a whopping $3 million net worth. Growing up, she was exposed to diverse cultures. The Kenyan-born anchor went to school in Somalia and pursued studies in France before settling down in Atlanta. Whitfield proves that women can also excel in broadcasting just like men, with politics, crisis, and war coverage in her portfolio.