KATHIE LEE GIFFORD – $2 MILLION
After being with the NBC program, Today, for 11 years, Kathie Lee Gifford finally bid the show goodbye this year. She was co-hosting it along with Hoda Kotb, and together, they made the show quite popular among the masses. Before that, she also hosted Live! With Regis and Kathie for 15 years – from 1985 to 2000. In her long career, she also dipped her toes in acting and performed roles on the small screen.
Currently, she is planning to pursue a movie career as an actress, director, and producer. Apart from writing various children’s books, she had also written Just When I Thought I’d Dropped My Last Egg: Life and Other Calamities. Not including her earnings from her side projects, Giffordmakes a yearly salary of $2 million. Amazing!