American Media Personality Katie Couric Has a Huge Net Worth; Receives Good Salary for her Job

Katie Couric is an American media personality who has recently served as a host for Yahoo! Global News Anchor, and has also worked as a television host for all three major television networks in the United States; NBC News, CBS News, and ABC News.

By profession, Katie Couric is a journalist and an author but has gained much wide recognition for being a media spokesperson, from which she receives a pretty good salary, which has, in turn, resulted in her huge net worth.

Katie Couric's Net Worth: $75 million

As of April 2018, Katie is estimated to have a net worth of $75 million which she has accumulated from her career in news and media.

Houses

Couric purchased an apartment in New York City's posh Park Avenue. The suburban house-sized apartment was bought in 1998 at the price of $3.6 million as per news from the New York Post and was listed at an asking price of $8.25 million. She later lowered the price to $7.995 million. The house was 4000 square feet in area and had 5 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms.

CAPTION: Katie's apartment

She is also said to have an apartment in Manhattan whose market price is $3,200,000.

Katie Couric's Career and salary

According to Paywizard Katie, who is married to John Molner receives an annual salary of $10,000,000 from Yahoo! and her monthly salary is $833,333. 

ABC News

Couric's career started in 1979 when she started working at the ABC News bureau in Washington, D.C., and later joined CNN as an assignment editor.

She later returned to ABC in 2011. Katie co-anchored the coverage of the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, alongside Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters, Robin Roberts, and Elizabeth Vargas, said to be the richest anchors to name some. She has also co-hosted on The View and Live! with Regis and Kelly. She also interviewed Lady Gaga on Thanksgiving as a part of A Very Gaga Thanksgiving.

In 2011 she created her own new special The Year with Katie Couric,  a program that marks the end of the year and covers some of the biggest newsmakers.

Her annual contract with ABC to do a daytime talk show for the Disney-ABC Domestic Television arm was $40,000,000.

NBC News

Couric joined NBC in the year 1989 as a Deputy Pentagon Correspondent and worked as an anchor substitute from 1989-1991. Therein NBC, she hosted The Today, and also acted as the co-host of Sunday Today.

She returned to NBC to co-host the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremonies along with Mike Tirico.

Her annual salary from Today until 2006 was $14,000,000.

CBS News

On April 5, 2006, she announced that she would be leaving NBC for CBS News where she was to become the new anchor and managing editor for CBS Evening News and also contribute to 60 Minutes and anchor Prime-Time News Special. Couric earned $15 million per year while at CBS, a salary that made her the highest-paid journalist in the world.

In CBS, she interviewed many great personalities like President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, former President George W. Bush, Norah Jones, and many others.