Kristen Welker was born on 1 July 1976 to Harvey and Julie Welker in Philadelphia, USA, and is best known as an American TV journalist, and in particular a White House correspondent. She was born into a family of mixed race, with her father being an African-American who was an engineer; her mother was a real estate agent..
So just how rich is Kristen Welker, as of late 2017? According to authoritative sources, Welker’s net worth is as high as $2.5 million, although her exact current annual salary isn’t known to sources. Nevertheless, we know that her wealth is accumulated from her career in the previously mentioned field, which began in the late 1990s.
Kristen Welker Net Worth $2.5 million
Growing up in Philadelphia, she attended Germantown Friends School in Germantown, and after that went on to enroll into the Harvard University, graduating in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in History, and being one of the most hard-working students there, she graduated with honors. Speaking about Kristen’s professional career, she started off in Broadcast Media in 2001, serving as a KRCR reporter. In the following years, from 2003 until 2005 she worked for KRCR in Redding/Chico, California, and in addition to that for WLNE-ABC6 NEWS based in Providence, Rhode Island. Her skills, charisma and talent helped her progress throughout her career, and she eventually ended up working for the NBC 10, serving as an anchor over the course of the next four years and in addition to that, during the same period of time she was reporting for WCAU-TV. Her net worth rose steadily.
After that, she moved on to work for NBC Universal, Burbank Bureau as a news correspondent, but her most important move was to become a White House Correspondent for the NBC News in 2011.
Being in that position, she was naturally involved in political reporting, and she accompanied the former president of the USA Barack Obama, as he was travelling around the world, and covering the 2012 presidential campaign. As of today, Kristen is still working for NBC News, one of the most prominent news channels worldwide, and also serves as a White House correspondent based in Washington.
When it comes to Welker’s personal life, she has been married to the marketing executive, John Hughes since 4 March 2017 and some of her colleagues such as Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, Kelly O’Donnell, and Chris Jansing attended Welker’s wedding ceremony. While working with the former president Barack Obama, Kristen faced a health issue, having several serious sinus infections in 2012, losing her sense of smell for a certain period of time, corrected by surgery. Welker is a huge fan of Philadelphia Phillies and she enjoys watching sports and engaging in them. In 2014, she was ranked as the fourth person on the list of the fifty most beautiful people in politics by The Hill website.
