The Highest-Paid Female News Anchors of All Time

Rachel Maddow: $20M

Rachel Maddow was the first openly lesbian news anchor to host a major primetime program. Maddow has hosted The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC since 2008. Her talk radio show of the same name from 2005 to 2010. 

Barbara Walters: $150M

Barbara Walters is one of the most famous female broadcasters of all-time. Walters began hosting television in the early 1960s, earning notoriety for her high-profile interviews, including an interview with Monica Lewinsky in 1999 that attracted the most viewers in TV history. She is best known for her time on TodayABC Evening News20/20, and The View. Walters retired from broadcast journalism in 2015.

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.