The 'Today' Show Hosts Ranked By Net Worth

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 2024, 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 2024.

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 2024, 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 2024, 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 2024. 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 2024 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.

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 2024. 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.