Vanessa Lachey (1980), Angeles City | $1M

From competing in beauty and modeling pageants to making huge moves in her career, Vanessa Lachey is constantly making waves as a multi-talented personality. She was named “Miss Teen USA” in the late ’90s. Lachey hosted MTV’s “Total Request Live” and served as a correspondent for New York’s “Entertainment Tonight.”

She has, over time, gained her career path through acting, TV hosting, and modeling. She earns an approximate annual salary of $1 million from her roles. In 2021, she held a lead role in CBS’s spine-tingling “NCIS: Hawai’i.” In the same year, Lachey published a book, “Life from Scratch: Family Traditions That Start with You.”