Sean Hannity Tops 'Highest Paid TV News Hosts' List

Sean Hannity

Syndicated Radio Host and Fox News Channel Host Sean Hannity is now the highest-earning New Yorker in TV News, according to the New York Observer.

According to the NY Observer, which Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is named publisher, pegs Hannity's earning at $29 million annually.

Hannity now tops the New York Observer’s “Rich List of 2016” for earnings from his daily Fox News opinion show and his afternoon syndicated radio program. Just weeks ago Hannity was knocking ither members of the media as being too wealthy to be in touch with the American electorate.

Matt Lauer of NBC’s “The Today Show” ranked second on the Observer’s "rich list," earning a whopping $22 million annually.

Three other hosts included on the list of 10 highest-paid media elites — Fox News's Bill O’Reilly ranked third with an $18 million salary, Shepard Smith was seventh, making $10 million a year, and “The Kelly File” host Megyn Kelly came in the fifth with earnings between $10 and $12 million.