The 'Today Show' Hosts Ranked By Net Worth

Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb and Al Roker on 'Today.'

NBC’s Today has been on air for more than 70 years and is one of the longest-running network TV programs around. The show has enjoyed a number of anchors over the years, from original host Dave Garroway to iconic journalists Barbara Walters and Katie Couric. The current cast includes co-hosts Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager, as well as long-time weather anchor and co-host Al Roker.

Here’s a peek at how these Today stars (and their colleagues) got their starts—and how their reported net worths stack up.

The 'Today' show hosts ranked by net worth

9. Dylan Dreyer

Dylan Dreyer graduated from Rutgers University in 2003 with a degree in meteorology. She’d served as the weather anchor for the Rutgers TV network and radio station and went on to do so for many places, including WICU-TV, WJAR-TV and WHDH-TV.

On Today, Dreyer co-hosts the third hour and is an award-winning weather anchor and meteorologist for Weekend Today. She’s also a weekday weather correspondent and regularly contributes as a host of Today and Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Like most of the hosts on this list, Dreyer participates in a number of projects outside of Today, including Earth Odyssey with Dylan Dreyer—a Saturday morning show on NBC—and Off the Rails, a SiriusXM radio show she does with fellow Today co-hosts Al Roker and Sheinelle Jones.

In 2023, Dreyer has an estimated net worth of $4 million.

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8. Craig Melvin

Craig Melvin’s career in journalism stretches as far back as high school. “A local TV station was running this audition for a high school reporter. So I hopped in my father’s green ’73 Pontiac LeMans, drove to Richland Fashion Mall, and auditioned,” Melvin told Garden & Gun. “I got selected and started working at the local TV station at fifteen. I was a news junkie even in my teenage years, as geeky as that sounds.”

Later, he was an evening news anchor at WIS in his hometown of Columbia, South Carolina. Then, he moved on to a weekend role for WRC in Washington, D.C., and joined NBC News and MSNBC in 2011.

Currently, Melvin is a news anchor on Today, co-host of the third hour and a contributor to Dateline. He’s covered a wide variety of news events, from presidential inaugurations to school shootings to Olympic Games.

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Craig Melvin—together with his sports-reporter wife, Lindsay Czarniak—has an estimated net worth of $9 million in 2023.

7. Willie Geist

Willie Geist has always had close ties to journalism. His father, Bill Geist, worked as a New York Times columnist and was a CBS Sunday Morning correspondent for 31 years. Geist himself started as a producer and reporter covering sports for CNN.

In 2007, he joined MSNBC and shortly after became the co-host of Morning Joe, a position he still holds today.

Geist also hosts NBC’s Sunday Today with Willie Geist and is a regular contributor to Today. In addition to his Morning Joe gig with MSNBC, he also makes appearances on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and Meet the Press.

On Sundays, Geist’s show focuses less on news and instead features interviews with headline-makers of the moment. “If I get the first 10 or 15 minutes for them to trust me, it’s going to be OK for them to give me a deeper answer, a more thoughtful answer, a longer answer,” he told Variety.

In 2023, Willie Geist has an estimated net worth of $14 million. He reportedly makes $5 million a year at NBC.

6. Jenna Bush Hager

Jenna Bush Hager is the daughter of former President George W. Bush. In 2004, she graduated with an English degree and began her career as an elementary school teacher in Washington, D.C. Hager joined Today as a correspondent in 2009 after Jim Bell, the executive producer, contacted her. “I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do the best job on them—education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy,” she said at the time.

Hager has since interviewed a number of famous figures, including former first lady Michelle Obama, Reese Witherspoon and Katherine Schwarzenegger. In 2012, she was awarded a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Morning Show.

As of 2023, Hager is the co-host of Today’s fourth hour with Hoda Kotb.

Jenna Bush Hager, along with her husband Henry Hager, have a combined estimated net worth of $14 million in 2023. Much of that has likely come from Jenna's NBC salary and book profits, as she’s authored/co-authored three titles.

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5. Sheinelle Jones

After graduating from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, Sheinelle Jones kicked off her career as a morning anchor and reporter for WICS-TV in Springfield, Illinois. She later moved to Oklahoma to join Fox Tulsa, and from there went to Philadelphia, co-hosting the Emmy Award-winning show Good Day Philadelphia.

Jones joined NBC News in 2014 and co-hosts the third hour of Today.

In her years with the show, she’s interviewed a number of notable figures, including then-Senator Barack Obama, then-Senator Hillary Clinton and Dr. Anthony Fauci. She hosts Today’s digital series Through Mom’s Eyes, where she visits the mothers of celebrities, and is part of the Today Parenting Team where she shares her own experiences as a working mom.

According to different sources, Sheinelle Jones has an estimated 2023 net worth of around $25 million. She’s likely made the bulk of her money from her decade-plus with Fox shows and her nearly decade-long tenure on Today.

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4. Hoda Kotb

Kotb started out as an anchor and reporter in the early 1990s, working for stations in New Orleans and Fort Myers, Florida. She joined NBC News in 1998 as a correspondent for Dateline, and covered a variety of topics during this time, including the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq and the War on Terror in Afghanistan.

From 2008 to 2019, Kotb co-hosted the fourth hour of Today with Kathie Lee Gifford. She continues to host it with Jenna Bush Hager and has been elevated to Today co-anchor, a position she filled after former co-anchor Matt Lauer was fired.

For her various roles with NBC, Kotb has earned Emmy awards, a Gracie award and an Edward R. Murrow Award. She’s also the bestselling author of four books and hosts The Hoda Show on Sirius XM.

Hoda Kotb has an estimated net worth of $30 million in 2023. Not surprising, given her decades in broadcast journalism and popularity on Today.

In the past, Kotb has been outspoken about the gender wage gap at NBC, saying she may have been the lowest-paid correspondent when she worked on Dateline. In a TV segment about asking for a raise, she said: “I think it’s one of the hardest things for women to do. I know for years I was definitely making a fraction of what my male co-anchors were making. I actually never asked because I didn’t want to be difficult.”

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3. Carson Daly

Carson Daly originally wanted to be a pro golfer, attending Loyola Marymount University in L.A. on a golfing scholarship. However, he ended up dropping out to intern at a radio station for Jimmy Kimmel.

After securing his own radio gig, he was offered some on-camera jobs for MTV and hit it big with Total Request Live, a show he’d host for years as he made a name for himself in the industry. In 2001 he got back into radio—with Carson Daly’s Most Requested and Last Call with Carson Daly. By 2003 he’d stopped working on Total Request Live and was focused on late-night hosting.

In 2013, Daly came onto Today as host of the Orange Room, covering online and social media content. Now, he’s a main co-host of the show, and focuses, among other things, on mental health and cooking. He’s interviewed musical artists such as Logic, Sean Combs and Fleetwood Mac.

Daly, of course, is very well-known for his role as host of NBC’s competition show The Voice, which he joined at its start in 2011, for which he’s received 10 Emmy nominations (and won four).

Given his decades as a radio and TV host, Carson Daly is worth an estimated $40 million in 2023.

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2. Savannah Guthrie

Savannah Guthrie didn’t always know she wanted to be in news. “I wasn’t much of a go-getter in my younger years,” she told Refinery29. “In high school, I was kind of a slacker. It was only in college when I started taking journalism classes that the fire was lit, and I really wanted to accomplish things. Before that, I was happy to hang out with my friends and listen to grunge music and wear my chunky heels.”

Guthrie reported for several local newsrooms right out of college, but took a surprising detour to law school at Georgetown. She worked for two years in white-collar criminal defense before realizing her true passion was back in journalism.

After a stint at Court TV, she joined NBC News in 2007, serving as a legal correspondent. Her later work—including an interview with Sarah Palin—rocketed her to the role of NBC White House correspondent and led to her focus on politics with the network.

Guthrie is the co-anchor of Today (a position she’s held since 2012), chief legal correspondent for NBC News and primary anchor of NBC’s election coverage. She’s interviewed big names such as former presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, as well as Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama and a host of others.

With accolades that include multiple Emmys, a Gracie, an Edward R. Murrow award and a Peabody, Guthrie has an estimated net worth of $40 million in 2023, most of which is probably down to her seven-figure Today salary.

1. Al Roker

Al Roker’s roots truly lie in weather forecasting. He began his broadcast career in 1974 when he was still in college, snagging a gig as the weekend weatherman at WTVH-TV in Syracuse, New York. After graduating, he took weathercasting jobs in Washington, D.C. and Cleveland.

Roker is the weather and feature anchor on Today, shoes he’s filled since 1996. Through the decades, he’s reported on headline-making storms and natural disasters, broke the Guinness World Record for Longest Uninterrupted Live Weather Report Broadcast (with 34 hours of coverage) and conducted exclusive interviews with figures such as Willie Nelson, Burt Reynolds and James Earl Jones.

He’s also co-hosted the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting every year since 1985, and co-hosts the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and Rose Bowl Parade. His successes include three Emmys, a prestigious Seal of Approval from the American Meteorological Society and even a part in the Broadway production Waitress.

Though there’s no doubting his talent as a TV reporter and personality, Roker truly loves his foundation in weather forecasting. “I'm not one of the main anchor people,” he said on LinkedIn’s This is Working video series. “[Former Tonight Show sidekick] Ed McMahon made a very good living being the 'second banana.' I'm happy doing what I'm doing and being supportive in any way that I can to the folks I work with. As Robin Williams said in Aladdin, 'It's all part and parcel of the Genie gig.'"

And, hey, that approach seems to be working: Al Roker is worth an estimated $70 million in 2023. With over 40 years in television and 12 books to his name, it’s not shocking he’s one of the richest anchors on air—and the richest weatherman.

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