Melissa Lee net worth and salary: Melissa Lee is a Chinese American reporter who has a net worth of $5 million dollars. Melissa Lee was born in Great Neck, New York, and graduated from Harvard with a degree in Government. While a student at Harvard, she served as the Assistant Managing Editor of the Harvard Crimson. She began her professional career working in banking as a consultant at Mercer Management Consultants.
She shifted her focus to broadcasting work after she was hired to work for Bloomberg Television and CNN Financial News. She began working for CNBC in 2004, and now hosts three programs for the network – "Fast Money", "Options Actions", and "Money in Motion: Currency Trading". She has also hosted multiple money-related documentaries, including "Made in China: The People's Republic of Profit", "Porn: Business of Pleasure", and "Code Wars: America's Cyber Threat". She has been nominated for two Emmy Awards for Business News.
