SCOTT PELLEY – $5 MILLION
Scott Pelley garnered the attention and adoration of viewers as an anchor as well as a correspondent for CBS. He has been with the network for 30 years and is extremely loyal. Despite getting better opportunities in his career, Pelley hasn’t ever contemplated boosting his curriculum vitae. He has reached this juncture of his career with a lot of achievements to his credit.
He is currently busy working in 60 Minutes, a popular CBS news magazine program, and has the distinction of covering every incident starting from the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Additionally, he has also done coverage work on scandals that have taken place in professional sports. With all these, his annual salary stands at $5 million!