Matt Lauer Net Worth

Matt Lauer is an American television journalist who is popular for the host of NBC’s sitcom “The Today Show” since 1997. He is recognized as one of the wealthiest and most successful news anchors in United States with overall net worth of $60 million. He was born on 30 December 1957 in New York City and graduated from School of Media Arts and Studies and earned undergraduate degree from Ohio University. Lauer started his television career in 1979 by being a producer of 12 o’clock news for WOWK-TV in Huntington. He also hosted PM Magazine, WNYW-TV, WWOR-TV and helped to launch The Oprah Winfrey Show into national syndication.

Matt Lauer became the news anchor on The Today Show where he was called for a substitute for Margaret Larson from 1992 to 1993. In 1994, he became the full time news anchor for The Today Show, while he was anchoring Today in New York and another news program Live at Five. He has also became the co-host of Weekend Today and worked as the co-anchor for Ann Curry on NBC’s NBC News at Sunrise for five years from 1992 to 1997. He has also worked as host for the Discovery Channel and HBO. Apart from his host of the News show, he guest appeared on a live episode of Will and Grace in early 2006. He has also appeared in the movie “Land of the Lost”, from where he earned a salary of $6.67 million. In 2012 April, Lauer announced that he had signed a contract with NBC News which will be paying him $25 million annually. Lauer has co-hosted the opening ceremonies of several Olympic Games too from which he earned a good amount of money. His appearance in the TV movies “Sharknado 2: The Second One” and “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!” earned him a salary of $15 million each.

Aside from Lauer’s profession, he was married and divorced from Nancy Alspaugh. Later on he was married to Annette Roque. He has two sons and a daughter. Lauer stays with his family in Southampton, New York in marvelous mansion which is valued at $2.5 million and sprawls across 1500 square feet. Matt Lauer is listed as one of the highest grossing earning media personalities with a salary of $28 million per year and a net worth of $60 million.

Things to know about Matt Lauer

Full Name: Matthew Todd Lauer
Date of Birth: 30th December, 1957
Matt Lauer in Twitter: 614K Followers in Twitter
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Matt Lauer Net Worth: $60 Million