The Highest-Paid Female News Anchors of All Time

Elizabeth Vargas: $3M

Formerly an anchor of 20/20 and ABC News specials for 14 years, Elizabeth Vargas is currently the lead investigative reporter/documentary anchor for A&E Networks. She broadcast her first A&E Investigates series, Cults & Extreme Belief, in 2018. In 2006, Vargas was co-anchor of World News Tonight alongside Bob Woodruff, but departed in the midst of a difficult pregnancy.

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