Joy Reid Says She Was Paid 10% of What Some Fellow MSNBC Hosts Made, Despite Higher Ratings: 'The World We Live In' Janine RubensteinAugust 20, 2025 at 5:56 AM Robin L Marshall/Getty Joy Reid Former MSNBC anchor Joy Reid made an appearance at Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival earlier ...
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Janine RubensteinAugust 20, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Former MSNBC anchor Joy Reid made an appearance at Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival earlier this month
During her speaking engagement, she shared stories about her longtime journalism career, including the topic of pay
Reid exited the news network in February
Joy Reid is reflecting on her time on MSNBC, and sharing some of the things she experienced during her tenure as an in-demand host with the news network.
Serving as the keynote speaker during the Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival's C-Suite Soirée on August 7, Reid, 56, was interviewed by friend and founder of social impact consulting firm Full Circle Strategies, Jotaka Eaddy. The intimate conversation included the February cancellation of The ReidOut and saw the former MSNBC host opening up about pay disparities throughout her career.
"The curse of competency means you're the best person at what you do," Reid told Eaddy, relaying a conversation she'd had with her best friend about workplace issues. "You know more than everyone else because you've had to do more work and more research to get where you are, and so therefore you're the one everybody calls."
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"Which means," she continued, "that because you are the best at it, you actually work the hardest, do the most hours, work the most overtime, and don't get paid commensurate to the amount of work you do."
Reid then got personal, sharing, "I worked in a business where I was paid a tenth of the salary of people who did literally my same job, the whole time I worked there," she said of MSNBC. "And we knew that any man that was doing what I was doing was going to make more than me. And that they were going to be able to negotiate higher salaries, even at lower ratings."
When reached by PEOPLE, MSNBC (which was recently renamed to MS NOW) declined to comment on Reid's claim.
Reid added, "It is just a thing that is true and unfortunately we have to figure out how emotionally to navigate it. We each have our own way of dealing with it, but unfortunately we all have to deal with it."
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She then pointed out that her male, non-Black counterparts rarely face the same battles. "They get the sort of presumption of brilliance. The Elon Musk presumption, where people are like 'You look like a genius, you must be a genius.' But they're not. They work less hours and make more than us, get bigger raises, more opportunities and more grace. This is the world we live in."
According to a Newsweek article published shortly after her show's cancellation, Reid earned "$3 million per year for hosting The ReidOut, the Washington Free Beacon reported. However, in late 2024, she and other anchors were offered pay cuts as part of a cost-saving effort at the network, the Ankler reported."
Back in February, MSNBC's new president Rebecca Kulter announced that the longtime journalist would be exiting the network in a memo sent to staff.
"Joy Reid is leaving the network and we thank her for her countless contributions over the years," Culter wrote in a statement. "Her work has been recognized with several esteemed honors, including most recently, the 2025 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding News Series."
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Fellow host Rachel Maddow opened up about the ouster the day of Reid's departure, telling viewers the news was "very, very, very hard to take." She continued, "There is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid. I love everything about her. I have learned so much from her. I have so much more to learn from her."
As for Maddow's opinion on the shake up, "personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door," she shared.
Reid currently hosts The Joy Reid Show streaming daily on YouTube, where she offers her takes on the news, politics and culture.
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