Steve Hartman Net Worth, Biography and Career

Steve Hartman is an award-winning broadcast journalist and news correspondent from Catskill, New York. He is a CBS News reporter based in New York City and has held his post as a part-time correspondent for two years.

Hartman is also a writer, famous for 48 Hours (1988), CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley (2011), and CBS News Sunday Morning (1979).

This career path has proven to be lucrative for the successful and famous newsman, so here’s everything you should know about Steve Hartman net worth and successful career as a renowned reporter, journalist, correspondent, and news presenter.

Steve Hartman’s Early Life

Stephen Robert Hartman was born into the family of George Hartman on 14 April 1963 in Toledo, Ohio. In 1985, he graduated from Bowling Green State University with a degree in broadcast journalism.

Steve Hartman’s Career

Hartman began his professional life in Toledo Ohio when he served as an internal and general assignment reporter for WTOL from the year 1984 to 1987. From 1987 to 1991, he worked with KSTP in Minneapolis as a featured reporter, and also maintained this same position when he worked with WABC-TV in New York from 1991 to 1994.

Hartman moved to KCBS-TV in Los Angeles where he served as a feature reporter and also presented the “The Stevening News” section from 1994 to 1998.

Steve Hartman reported for two CBS News journals, Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel Hartman and Coast to Coast, after which he became a full-time reporter for CBS in 1998. From 2002 until the series got canceled in 2005, he worked as the essayist for 60 Minutes II.

Hartman became famous as a journalist and earned recognition for featuring in the series “Everyone Has a Story” which won him an award. He would toss a dart at a map of the United States and travel to wherever the dart landed.

Upon arrival, he would find a phone book, choose a name at random, and try to find a person who agrees to be interviewed and give an account of their “story”. The journalist traveled around the country, from Miami to West Virginia, From Hawaii to Alaska.

Since the inception of the series in 1999, it produces a total of 123 stories. In the year 2010, Hartman took the show worldwide, when with NASA’s assistance, each segment of “Everybody in the World Has a Story” featured an astronaut in the International Space Station pointing to random locations from spinning a globe for Steve to travel and find a story.

As an active and engaging presenter, Steve brings the latest stories from different corners of the country with unique encounters. These stories are featured weekly in the segment “On The Road”, which airs every Friday “CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley”.

Career Highlights

The following are the notable credits in Steve Hartman’s professional life.

Awards & Achievements

In his life, Steve Hartman has achieved several awards for his well-doing. He has received 4 RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Awards, an Emmy Award, and an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award.

Personal Life & Family

Steve is married to his wife Andrea Hartman and they share three children together. Among his three kids, the first named Andrea has autism. The couple lives together with their children and shows no sign of unhappiness or disunity.

Steve Hartman is also very active on the internet as a social media user. His social media profiles host thousands of followers from different countries, and he does his part by actively engaging them and keeping them close.

Age & Physical Features

Steve Hartman’s hair is light brown, whereas the color of his eyes is brown. He weighs 75kg and has a height of 178cm. He is currently 57 years old.

Steve Hartman Net Worth

Stephen Robert Hartman is known as one of the most popular anchors on CBS who has reached success as a reporter and news correspondent. As a regular anchor for CBS, this journalist earns a decent amount of salary which makes up Steve Hartman net worth.

Salary & Earnings

According to various reports, CBS reporters earn anywhere from $46,238 to $155,000 every year. Steve Hartman’s annual salary as a reporter/anchor with CBS Network is $100,000, making him one of the top 10 highest earners judging by Diane Sawyer’s position as the second highest earner with $110,000.

Houses, Cars, Lifestyle

The journalist and his family live happily in their home in Catskill, New York, United States. His lucrative career provides him the needed cash to sustain both himself and his young family who follows him on vacation in different parts of the world during his holiday.

Steve Hartman net worth is approximately $3 million. His contract with CBS is still running and he may get the figures on his paycheck increased in a renewal seeing that he has worked with the network for over thirty years.