Bret Baier | $7 Million

Television reporter Bret Baier has an annual salary of $7 million, and he currently hosts Special Report with Bret Baier and formerly served as Pentagon correspondent and Chief White House Correspondent. He then became the White House’s correspondent in 2007, covering George W. Bush’s administration.

Baier kicked off his television career in Rockford, Illinois, working for a local station before joining the CBS affiliate WRAL-TV, which is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1998, he submitted his audition tape to Fox News and was hired as the network’s bureau chief in Atlanta. On September 11, 2001, Baier gassed up his car and drove from Georgia to Arlington, Virginia, to report the attack on the Pentagon. He did not return to the Atlanta bureau but was instead hired as Fox News’ Pentagon correspondent, working at the post for five years. He made 13 trips to Iraq and 11 trips to Afghanistan as a Pentagon correspondent.