1 | Rush Limbaugh | Talk show host | $59 million |
2 | Glenn Beck | Talk show host | $33 million |
3 | Sean Hannity | Talk show host | $22 million |
4 | Bill O'Reilly | Talk show host | $20 million |
5 | Jon Stewart | Talk show host | $15 million |
6 | Sarah Palin | Current or former government official | $14 million |
7 | Don Imus | Talk show host | $11 million |
8 | Bill Clinton | Current or former government official | $7.7 million |
9 | Keith Olbermann | Talk show host | $7.5 million |
10 | Rudy Giuliani | Current or former government official | $7.0 million |
11 | Laura Ingraham | Talk show host | $7.0 million |
12 | Newt Gingrich | Current or former government official | $5.5 million |
13 | Madeleine Albright | Current or former government official | $5 million |
14 | Stephen Colbert | Talk show host | $5 million |
15 | Arianna Huffington | Journalist | $5 million |
16 | Mark Levin | Talk show host | $5 million |
17 | Chris Matthews | Talk show host | $4.5 million |
18 | George W. Bush | Current or former government official | $4.2 million |
19 | Bill Maher | Talk show host | $4 million |
20 | Barack Obama | Current or former government official | $4 million |
21 | Jorge Ramos | Journalist | $4 million |
22 | Joe Scarborough | Talk show host | $3.5 million |
23 | Fareed Zakaria | Journalist | $3.1 million |
24 | Bob Barnett | Power broker | $3 million |
25 | Alan Greenspan | Current or former government official | $3 million |
26 | Frank Luntz | Political strategist | $3 million |
27 | Mark Halperin | Journalist | $2.5 million |
28 | John Heilemann | Journalist | $2.5 million |
29 | Bob Woodward | Journalist | $2.5 million |
30 | Thomas Friedman | Journalist | $2 million |
31 | Al Gore | Current or former government official | $2 million |
32 | Rachel Maddow | Talk show host | $2 million |
33 | Jon Meacham* | Journalist | $2 million |
34 | Charlie Rose | Talk show host | $2 million |
35 | Karl Rove | Current or former government official | $2 million |
36 | Condoleezza Rice | Current or former government official | $1.8 million |
37 | Charlie Cook | Journalist | $1.5 million |
38 | David Plouffe | Political strategist | $1.5 million |
39 | David Remnick | Journalist | $1.3 million |
40 | Roland Martin | Journalist | $1.1 million |
41 | Tina Brown | Journalist | $1 million |
42 | Dick Cheney | Current or former government official | $1 million |
43 | John McLaughlin | Talk show host | $1 million |
44 | Colin Powell* | Current or former government official | $1 million |
45 | Eduardo 'Piolin' Sotelo | Talk show host | $1 million |
46 | Richard Stengel | Journalist | $1 million |
47 | Paul Krugman | Journalist | $900,000 |
48 | Mary Matalin* | Current or former government official | $800,000 |
49 | Ann Coulter | Journalist | $750,000 |
50 | David Axelrod | Current or former government official | $720,000 |
* Disputed estimates, but declined to provide further information on the numbers.