vMika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski was born on the 2nd May 1967, in New York City USA, and is a journalist, television host and author, best known to the world for being the co-host of the MSNBC’s weekday morning broadcast “Morning Joe”.
Have you ever wondered how rich Mika Brzezinski is, as of mid- 2016? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Mika Brzezinski`s net worth is as high as $12 million, an amount she has acquired through her successful career; her current salary is set at $2 million per year.
Mika Brzezinski Net Worth $2 Million
Mika is a daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was the Assistant to the President (Jimmy Carter) for Security Affairs, and his wife Emilie Anna Benešová. Mika is of mixed origin, as she has Czech and Polish blood roots. Mika has a brother, Mark Brzezinski, who is a politician. Mika went to The Madeira School, and after she matriculated, enrolled at Georgetown University, but moved to Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, from which she graduated with a degree in English language.
Her career began as early as 1990, when she joined the ABC and it`s “World News This Morning” as an assistant. The following year she transferred to the Fox affiliate WTIC-TV/WTIC-DT in Hartford, Connecticut, starting as assignment and features editor, but she quickly progressed to the position of general assignments reporter. In 1992, her career took a turn for the better, joining the CBS affiliate WFSB-TV/WFSB-DT, also based in Hartford, and encouraged by this progress, Mika began to produced high-class work, and in no time she was promoted to the position of weekday morning anchor.
In 1997, she joined CBS and became the host of the “Up To The Minute” news program. However, three years later she left CBS and joined the MSNBC, where she worked for a year, before returning again to the CBS, this time to become a correspondent, and her most noted assignment report was the”9/11” 2001 terrorist attack.
Nevertheless, Mika was again fired by the CBS, in 2006, and in 2007 she re-joined MSNBC. Since then she has been contributing to shows such as “NBC Nightly News”, “Weekend Today”, and many others. However, her primary job is co-hosting the talk show “Morning Joe” alongside Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist. This position has largely influenced her net worth, as evidenced by her aforementioned current salary.
To speak further of her accomplishments, Mika has released several books, including “All Things at Once” (2010), and “Knowing Your Value: Women, Money and Getting What You’re Worth” (2011), which sales have increased her net worth considerably.
Regarding her personal life, Mika married James Patrick Hoffer in 1993, however, the couple divorced in 2016; the couple have two children together.