Here's how much your favorite TV show hosts make
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They are the ones who are in our living rooms on a daily basis, and since the 1950s executives have shaped TV hosts - whether they be on morning shows or late night - to have a quality that makes them almost feel like they are part of our family. And that leads to big bucks.
Variety has compiled the biggest estimated annual salaries of reality, news, and talk show hosts. There's newbies to the game like Mike Meyers, Jamie Foxx, and Megyn Kelly, and then there are the big hitters like Ryan Seacrest, Ellen DeGeneres, and Judith Sheindlin (you know here better as Judge Judy).
Here are the top 20 paid hosts:
Note: Some of these figures below include fees for producing and back-end compensation.
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