10-03-2017, 04:09 PM
In past years, audiences have heard of anchor news such as NBC Matt Lauer, who makes $ 20 million a year, and Katie Couric, now pulling in $ 10 million from Yahoo News. Wages of several million big name anchors is not the norm, according to an annual survey of current wages published by Radio Television Digital News Association, an industry group.
The average salary of a news anchor is $ 83,300, although this can range from a minimum of $ 14,000 to a maximum of $ 875,000, depending on the size of the market and other circumstances.
Sports anchors weigh an average of $ 56,500 annually, with a range of $ 18,000 - $ 275,000. Weather casters make $ 69,800, with a range of $ 12,000 - $ 595,000.
"It's certainly not a big year for TV news salaries, but it's better than last year," says Hofstra University professor emeritus Bob Papper, who did the research. "At the anchor counter, the news anchors and the weather-beaters went up, but the sport anchors fell."