The Highest-Paid TV Hosts of All Time

Anderson Cooper

Anderson Cooper is the primary anchor of CNN's news broadcast Anderson Cooper 360°. Cooper makes $12 million per year and is worth about $110 million excluding his inheritance. In addition to his work on CNN, Cooper serves as a correspondent on the CBS show 60 Minutes.

Craig Ferguson

This Scottish-American TV presenter is best known for hosting The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson from 2005 to 2014, for which he won a Peabody award. He also won two Daytime Emmy Awards for his work on Celebrity Name Game from 2014 to 2017. Ferguson earned $12.7 million per year with a net worth of $30 million.

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.