Regardless of chatter that CNN’s layoffs might see Kaitlan Collins thrown to the curb, she’s emerged as one in all CNN’s brightest stars — and no shock, there is a substantial paycheck to go together with that. In line with Celeb Web Value, the CNN anchor rakes in a whopping $3 million yearly. 

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That Collins has such a powerful wage is not all that shocking if you take into consideration all of the success she’s had over the previous few years. Amongst numerous different achievements, she was included in Forbes’ 30 Beneath 30 again in 2019 and, in 2024, featured on the Time100 Subsequent checklist. The latter noticed Anderson Cooper present the write-up for her profile, and he actually did not maintain again on the compliments. “So many individuals come and go in cable information that it might at instances really feel like an episode of ‘Survivor,’ however I am not fearful about Kaitlan. She is going to outwit, outplay, and outlast us all. She is that good, and she or he is barely simply getting began,” the longtime CNN anchor wrote. 

Cooper is not the one well-known face to have gushed over Collins. Wolf Blitzer has additionally showered her with reward, telling Vainness Honest, “She’s relentless, in the very best means.” After which, there’s Jeff Zucker, who employed Collins earlier than he left CNN. “Her work ethic is second to none. She is extremely dedicated,” he mentioned of the anchor, whom he believed is likely to be the final “Nice” within the information enterprise. As such, he continued, “This concept of her anchoring a day by day present and likewise being the chief White Home correspondent should not section anybody. That is simply par for the course for Kaitlan,” he mentioned. With commendations like that, it isn’t laborious to see why CNN is glad to shell out $3 million a 12 months!

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Even along with her spectacular web price, Kaitlan Collins does not precisely plaster social media with pics of her lavish way of life. From time to time, although, we get a glimpse of what she could also be spending a few of her fortune on: fashun. 

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Collins commonly tags a number of the pricy manufacturers she’s worn on her Instagram. There was the time she donned a glittering Emilia Wickstead set for her look on “Late Evening with Seth Meyers.” The pants alone retail for greater than $790, whereas the highest goes for over $580 — plus, Collins accessorized with Larroude heels and coin pendant necklaces from Jane Win jewellery. Collins has additionally donned a skin-baring costume by Delphine, which might have set her again practically $1,300, and a L’Agence mini for “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert.”

In fact, it is potential that Collins’ lewks for late-night TV reveals and occasions have come from stylists, so she may not have paid for each merchandise worn. Nonetheless, even in her downtime, she’s been recognized to love a premium piece. Working example: whereas vacationing in California in early 2025, she posed for an Instagram pic on the classic designer retailer Unusual Thread. She additionally appeared to have tagged what she was carrying, so we get the impression she’d bought the bedazzled jacket there. Sticking with the identical trip photograph dump, it did not escape us that Collins additionally shared snaps from a meal on the Polo Lounge and hanging poolside on the Avalon Lodge in Palm Springs, which prices between $385 and $873 an evening. Hey — at $3 million a 12 months, we would say a lavish trip is so as. 

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