The Highest-Paid Female News Anchors of All Time

Meredith Vieira: $40M

Meredith Vieira is best known as one of the first co-hosts of The View on ABC, where she worked from 1997 to 2006. She was also the original host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire from 2002 to 2013, as well as the co-host of Today from 2006 to 20111. She has been a contributor to a variety of other programs, such as NBC Nightly News and Dateline NBC.

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