Aside from becoming a doctor or an engineer, one can work as a news anchor, newsreader, and so on. This is a career that requires not only a degree but also a personality. Owing to the demand for 24-hour news stories and the need to reach deadlines, a newsroom operates at breakneck speed. As a result, excellent communication skills, grit, and desire are needed to keep the audience engrossed.

 A news anchor's role is to provide accurate information and deliver the news without bias or discrimination. If you have an attractive expressive voice and a clear understanding of voice modulation, you might consider being the first member of your family to join a news channel. 

The job profile of a news anchor includes analysing, interpreting, analysing, broadcasting the news receives from various sources but before this one has to know writing, editing and proofreading as well. 

Well, these are some of the basic knowledge about being a news anchor but have you ever come across the salaries of the news anchors? 

It is something which will blow our mind out of shock, I am sure after knowing the salaries of the highest-paid news anchors of India you, yes you will think of being one. 

1. RAVISH KUMAR

Ravish Kumar is an Indian journalist, author and media personality coming from the village of Bihar, Ravish Kumar is one of the highest-paid news anchors who is the Senior Executive Editor of NDTV India. He hosts several programmes including a flagship weekday show like Prime Time. Hum Log, Ravish ki Report 

It is worth mentioning here that as he is an author he has penned down some books which had received good reviews some are - Ishq Mein Shahar Hona, Dekhate Rahiye, Ravishpanti, The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation, Bolna Hi Hai: Loktantra, Sanskriti Aur Rashtra Ke Bare Mein

ESTIMATED SALARY = RS 2.16 – 2.40 crore per annum.

2. SUDHIR CHAUDHARY.

Sudhir Chaudhary is an Indian Journalist and media personality, he is serving as an editor in chief of Zee news and hosts the prime time show Daily News and Analysis ( DNA) on ZEE news. 

Chaudhary has been working in the television news industry since 1990a infect he comes from the first generation of television journalists he was a part of live reporting and 24-hour news television.

Coming from a small town in Haryana he has great achievements in his educational background. He won a Ramnath Goenaka award for excellence in Journalism in the “ Hindi Broadcast” category for the year 2013

ESTIMATED SALARY = 3 crores per annum.

3. SHWETA SINGH.

Shweta Singh is one of the renowned journalists who are a part of multiple roles as an anchor, executive editor of a special programme at Aaj Tak. She has played a commendable role in her field and gained a lot of recognition. She has been awarded many awards and has been nominated for the ITA Award for the best anchor.

ESTIMATED SALARY = 3.40 crore per annum.

4. RAJAT SHARMA

Rajat Sharma is an Indian journalist and the chairman and editor-in-chief of India TV. He is one of the oldest to get featured in the list of highest-paid news anchors. Life hasn’t been easy for Rajat Sharma as he had to face a lot of hardships to establish himself in his career. 

The ever- so- famous news anchor is also the inventor of the famous TV show Aap ki Adalat where he asks difficult and challenging questions to ministers and celebrities in front of a live audience.

ESTIMATED SALARY= 3.60 Crore per annum.

5.  NIDHI RAZDAN

Nidhi Razdan is a journalist and television personality. She was the executive editor of NDTV and the primary anchor of NDTV 24x7 news debates show left, right & centre and the weekly debate show The Big Fight.

Razdan has covered a wide range of news events and presented several shows since 1999, often reporting live from the news scene. She has covered a wide range of important political, economic, and social stories from the Indian subcontinent, with a special emphasis on Indian politics and foreign affairs, including the India-US nuclear agreement, general elections, many state elections, and all major news like The earthquakes in Gujarat in 2001 and Kashmir in 2005, as well as all major news events and elections in Jammu and Kashmir.

ESTIMATED SALARY=  4 crore per annum.

6.  RAJDEEP SARDESAI.

Rajdeep Sardesai is a senior journalist and the author of '2014: The Election That Changed India,' a best-selling book.Sardesai, who has 26 years of journalism experience in print and television, was managing editor of the NDTV network before founding the IBN 18 network, which includes CNN IBN.

Sardesai specialises in national politics and has received several awards for journalistic excellence, including the Padma Shri for Journalism in 2008, the International Broadcasters Award for coverage of the Gujarat riots in 2002, and the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award in 2007.

ESTIMATED SALARY = 10 Crore per annum.

7.  VIKRAM CHANDRA 

Vikram Chandra is a Tv journalist and technology expert who is the founder of Editoriji Technologies. He was the CEO of the NDTV Group from 2011 to October 2016. His reputation as a journalist augmented when he covered the Kashmir conflict He is the anchor of Nine ‘o’clock news and was recently the host of Gadget Guru and the anchor The Big Fight. 

In India, Chandra has been involved in public-interest media campaigns. He has participated in many "Greenathons," which are advertising campaigns aimed at increasing the power grid to rural areas and supporting solar lanterns to provide illumination to homes. [nine] He's also been involved in the anti-poaching movement "Save Our Tigers." He is also well-known among academics for his important contributions to a variety of social issues.

ESTIMATED SALARY= 2 Crore per annum.

8.     GAURAV KALRA.

Senior Editor at ESPNcricinfo.com and ESPN.in is Gaurav Kalra. He leads, conceptualises, creates, and presents video and news content on the world's largest digital cricket platform in his current position.

ESTIMATED SALARY = 1.5 crore per annum.

9.  ANJANA OM KASHYAP

She is an anchor and is currently working as an executive editor of the Hindi news channel Aaj Tak. She joined Doordarshan before moving to Zee news she went to zee news 24 before settling into AAJ tak. She had to face criticism because some of her personnel views were affecting journalism.

She has been noted to be a strong voice against the socially oppressed classes and places her opinions in media panel discussions.

ESTIMATED SALARY = 1 Crore per annum

10.      BARKHA DUTTA

Barkha Dutt is an Indian television journalist, author and owner of the YouTube news channel MoJo.

She writes for The Hindustan Times and The Washington Post as an opinion columnist.  Dutt was a member of the NDTV team for 21 years before leaving in January 2017. Dutt has won various national and international awards, including the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour.

ESTIMATED SALARY = 3.5 Crores per annum.

11. ARNAB GOSWAMI 

Arnab Goswami is an Indian anchor how are the managing director and editor-in-chief of republic media network  Goswami's Republic Media Network presently owns and operates three channels namely Republic TV in English, Republic Bharat in Hindi and Republic Bangla in Bengali Before Republic TV, Goswami was the editor-in-chief and a news anchor of Times Now and ET Now, from 2006 to 2016. Previously, he had also served stints at NDTV and The Telegraph.

 On Times Now, he anchored The Newshour, a live debate at 9 pm (IST) weekdays, which propelled him to widespread fame. He also hosted a special television programme Frankly Speaking with Arnab. In November 2016, Goswami resigned as editor-in-chief of Times Now. His news channel Republic TV was launched in May 2017. 

ESTIMATED SALARY = 12 Crore per annum

Currently, he is considered to be the highest-paid news anchor of 2021