Portia Bruner is probably the known face to many Fox 5 viewers, she is currently serving as the general assignment reporter for Fox 5 Atlanta. Professional since her University graduation, Bruner’s major story coverage includes the arrest of scam-artists operating fraudulent charities after the September 11th terrorist attacks.
With her successful career, Portia owns massive net worth that tends to be around a million dollars. Besides reporting, Bruner also serves as a desk anchor for Good Day Atlanta and Fox 5 News at 5, 6 and 10 PM. Get details on Portia Bruner’s net worth, asset, expenses, salary, income source, and personal life.
Famed for her compassionate and dynamic story-telling ability, Portia Bruner is professionally working for over 2 decades. No doubt that her success and prolonging career has blessed her with massive fortune.
As of October 2022, Bruner’s actual net worth is not out, though her fortune is assumed to be in the 7-digit figure, i.e. million dollars. Some online sources cite her net worth to be in the range of $500,000-$1 million.
Well, Portia’s net worth is often compared with her Fox 5 Atlanta fellow reporter Kaitlyn Pratt, owning $400,000.
The main source of Portia’s income is her career as a reporter/anchor, which earns her massive thousands of dollars salary. Currently, she works for Fox 5 Atlanta as a general assignment reporter since 2003 and allegedly pockets the payroll of $50,000-$70,000.
Well, the average salary of a general assignment reporter in the United States is around $39,300.
Fond of journalism since her childhood, Portia as a high school student worked as a "proof-reader-turned-reporter" for The Urban Spectrum, a small paper in Denver.
Then, following her Howard University graduation, Portia became the Vice President of Broadcast for the Atlanta Association of Broadcast Journalists. But, her journalism prominence came after she worked as the producer of consumer and investigator news for NBC4-TV in Washington, D.C.
Thereafter, Bruner actively began to work as reporter/anchor for TV channels like WAPT-TV, WTKR-TV in Norfolk, Virginia and currently works for Fox 5 News.
Sources report that the base salary for a reporter in the WAPT-TV and WTKR-TV is around $31,000, so maybe the pay scale for Portia Bruner while she worked there.
Even if Portia Bruner is not to have reported endorsement deals and sponsoring products, she does often post about the products she uses on her Instagram.
Also, Bruner, a thrift shopping expert has become the face for the Thrift store, though the payment detail is not out.
Online sources cite that she can sum up to $27-$46 per sponsored post via her Instagram, where her current followers are over 2K.
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Currently, Portia Bruner lives in her house in Atlanta, Georgia, but is low-key about the house worth and other details. Since the median house value in Atlanta is $260,200, the American reporter’s residence, without a doubt, is valued at massive hundreds of thousand dollars.
Also, she reportedly owns a Toyota Highlander worth around $31,000.
Well, with such a massive fortune, Bruner does have a lavish lifestyle and also huge expenses too, raising 2 sons. Portia is nail art and food enthusiast and is also fond of traveling and fancy wears.
Besides this, her expenses also account in for tax payments too.
As per Smarasset.com, the property owners in Atlanta has to pay 1.14% of the assessed value of the asset as property tax alongside the house insurance premium of $1,152. In addition to this, Portia Bruner’s fate also coincides with quite expensive tax policy of the United States alike of others.
For instance, on the $100,000 yearly income of Bruner, she is liable to pay $21,500 as income tax, that includes 8.74% Federal tax, 7.65% FICA and 5.16% State tax.
Portia Bruner was born on July 6, 1973, in Denver, Colorado to American parents. The further report on her family background and parents is not out. She holds American nationality and is of black ethnicity.
Bruner’s zodiac sign is Cancer and follows Christianity.
She attended Howard University and graduated with Magna Cum Laude in 1995.
As of October 2022, Portia Bruner’s age is 48.
Well, Portia Bruner is a married woman and enjoys a blissful relationship with her husband. Though, the detail on her husband is not out. Together with her spouse, Bruner shares 2 sons though their names are undisclosed.