Talk show hosts who find great success are the ones that make the most money. There have been many talk show hosts over the years and some have made more of an impact than others. Here are the highest paid talk show hosts on TV today.
1. David Letterman – $28 million
With a salary of $28 million per year David Letterman is perhaps the biggest success story when it comes to talk show hosts. Though he now makes a hefty paycheck he started out in college working as an announcer for the school’s radio station. After he had graduated college Letterman spent time predicting the weather for a television news station. During the beginning of his professional talk show host career he and Johnny Carson became friends. No other nighttime talk show host has hosted their show for as many consecutive years as David Letterman has. Due in part to Letterman himself, his late night talk show is TV’s most second watched show.
2. Jay Leno – $24 million
Jay Leno is also among the highest paid talk show hosts, earning $24 million per year. As most late night talk show fans already know Jay Leno would fill on for Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show starting in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s when Johnny Carson retired, Jay Leno took over the Tonight Show and the rest is history.
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