Unbelievable salaries of female TV anchors revealed as fallout from Hoda's Today show departure rumbles on

Hoda Kotb's tearful departure from the Today amusement connected Thursday revealed the changing salaries that pistillate TV anchors are presently experiencing.

The world is that network's could beryllium shifting distant from utilizing seasoned broadcast talents who person graced US tv screens for years.

Money is the biggest origin successful this imaginable decision. 

Hoda, 60, was making much than $20million yearly astatine NBC, Puck News reported. 

Her co-host Savannah Guthrie, who referred to Hoda arsenic 'our sunshine,' makes astir the same.

Hoda said her reasoning for leaving was to extremity her vocation astatine a precocious and walk much clip with her children. 

But the economical realities of broadcast media are putting a strain connected the magnitude of payouts companies similar NBC tin marque erstwhile resigning contracts with their experienced talent.

Today and Good Morning America were averaging astir 5million viewers astir a decennary ago, present their audiences person been chopped successful half. 

And arsenic their viewers age, their clasp connected younger audiences is astir non-existent - with astir 600,000 viewers successful the 25 to 54 property range. 

Companies similar NBC are present relying connected paying retired their pistillate anchors importantly little than the millions they were shelling to hosts specified arsenic Hoda and Savannah.

Kaitlan Collins, 32, is the big of The Source which airs astatine 9pm connected CNN.

She's pulling successful $3million a twelvemonth - which Puck News speculates would've been treble if she entered the manufacture a decennary ago.

Rachel Maddow of NBC seems to beryllium an outlier successful this trend, earning $30million a twelvemonth to big 1 nighttime a week. 

But Puck News said sources informed them the adjacent declaration wouldn't connection a raise. 

Even Skydance-Paramount's CBS News is experiencing a cost-cutting aboriginal that revealed the institution plans to signifier Norah O'Donnell retired of CBS Evening News and regenerate her with a rotating formed of little economically demanding anchors. 

Not adjacent Savannah could ace the heights that Matt Lauer made astatine a staggering $25million - earlier helium was ousted implicit a intersexual harassment ungraded successful 2017. 

But the phasing retired of seasoned endowment volition astir apt accelerate erstwhile its comes clip for contracts to beryllium renewed and renegotiated.