The Highest-Paid Female News Anchors of All Time

Ann Curry: $10M

Ann Curry has been a television personality for over 30 years. Curry has reported from all over the world, covering large-scale events of human suffering in Palestine, Syria, and Central America. Curry's coverage of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti is credited with helping to speed the arrival of humanitarian planes.

Robin Roberts: $25M

Before Robin Roberts began hosting Good Morning America in 2005, she worked as an ESPN sports reporter from 1990 to 2005. Her contributions to women's basketball led her to be inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012. Roberts was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, a rare bone marrow disease, the same year; she earned a Peabody Award for her coverage of the treatments on GMA.

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.