An ‘E! News’ TV host quit after discovering that her male co-star was earning twice her salary.Catt Sadler quit the channel after 12 years after reportedly discovering what her male co-star Jason Kennedy salary was. Sadler made the decision to leave her “dream job” on Tuesday. Her contract was about to expire, and E! wanted to renew it.
The TV host told People magazine hat she was “informed and made aware that my male equivalent at the network who I started with the same year and have come up with doing essentially similar jobs, if not the same job, wasn’t just making a bit more than me, but double my salary for several years.”
“That was really hard to swallow, but you know information is supposed to be power and when my team began negotiations knowing what we knew, that was the barometer in which I expected to be paid, based on the law and based on what I know to be fair. And what I believe in my heart of hearts is reasonable. “It’s almost insulting because you know you work really hard,” Sadler said.
“I’m a single mom of two kids. I’ve given my all to this network. I sacrificed time away from my family and I have dedicated my entire career to this network. And when you learn something like that, it makes you feel very small and underappreciated and undervalued. It’s heartbreaking.”
