Sanjay Gupta – $12 Million

Sanjay Gupta is an acclaimed neurosurgeon and medical reporter who currently works at CNN, where he is the Chief Medical Correspondent. Gupta’s work in media has earned him many awards, including several Emmy Awards for his show Sanjay Gupta MD, making him one of the most respected journalists in the business.

Apart from his broadcast journalism career, Gupta is also associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. For someone as gifted as he is, juggling media and medicine, he deserves to have a big bank account, and if the figures are anything to go by, he can get all the lab coats he would need.