Chris Hansen Net Worth 2022: Income, Salary, Age, Bio

What Is Chris Hansen’s Net Worth?

Chris Hansen has a net worth of $2.5 million as of 2022. He is an American television journalist and YouTube personality.

He is best known for his work on Dateline NBC, specifically the former segment To Catch a Predator, which focused on catching potential Internet sex predators through a sting operation. He also hosts the Investigation Discovery show Killer Instinct, which documents homicide investigations.

Chris Hansen Early Life and Bio Overview

Net Worth	$2.5 million
Salary	$200,000 annually
Full Name	Christopher Edward Hansen
Birth Date / Age	13 September 1959
Birth Place	Chicago, Illinois, United States
Source of Wealth	American television journalist
Relationship Status	Married
Height	1.87 m

Chris Hansen was born on the 13th of September 1959 in Chicago, Illinois, United States and began growing up in West Bloomfield Township and Birmingham, Michigan. He informed City Pulse that he initially wanted to pursue a career in journalism so he can be a journalist when he was 14 years old, after watching and following the police and FBI investigation into Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance.

In Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, he attended school at Brother Rice High School. Hansen earned a Bachelor of Arts in telecommunications from Michigan State University in 1981. Chris Hansen is married to Mary Joan and they have two children together. It was said to be that Mary Joan filed for divorce in 2018 after spending 30 years in marriage, who would have known that such a day would come.

On the other hand, she made frequent appearances on Chris Hansen’s YouTube channel in 2020 implying that they are still together despite what was reported in 2018. Patricia Hansen, his mother, sadly passed on on 1 March 2020.

Chris Hansen Net Worth and Career

Chris Hansen began working as a reporter for WILX, an NBC affiliate, shortly before graduating from college. He later worked as a reporter for WFLA, an NBC affiliate station in Florida. In his home state of Michigan, he also reported for a few radio stations and newspapers. His cross-country experience includes reporting for Detroit’s WXYZ-TV.

He was signed by NBC News in May 1993 and thereby began his journey to national prominence. His first job with NBC was that of a news correspondent for Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric. Chris Hansen’s long list of noteworthy shows began with Dateline NBC.

Where he was able to cover significant stories such as the Columbine High School shooting, the Oklahoma City terrorist attack, and the TWA Flight 800 disaster on Dateline NBC. Also one of his defining works had to do with the FAA revising its security policies in response to reports of a lack of security at American airports that Chris reported on.

Chris Hansen has a well-decorated award cabinet, he has received eight Emmy Awards, four Edward R. Murrow Awards, three Clarion Awards, the Overseas Press Club award, an IRE, the National Press Club award, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Award, and Associated Press and United Press International awards for excellence.

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Chris Hansen Net Worth

Chris Hansen has a net worth of $2.5 million as of 2022. His popular shows, such as “To Catch a Predator”, have earned him a high journalistic value, allowing him to prompt an annual salary of $500 000.

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