Talking about Burnett, she began her career graph from Goldman Sachs, as a financial analyst. She worked for the Mergers and Acquisitions division of the Investment Banking Firm, thereby diverting herself into corporate finance steeply and gradually. While being the job for Goldmann Sachs, she was offered a lucrative position at CNN, wherein she need to work as a writer coupling it with the role of a booker for the show called “Moneyline” with co-hosts named Willow Bay, Lou Dobbs and Stuart Varney. She did not find the position as lucrative as that of Citi group’s wherein she was held responsible as the vice president at Citigroup Global stationed at New York. Post leaving Citigroup, Burnett joined Bloomberg TV Channel as Tocks editor and News Anchor. She hosted “Street Signs” telecast on CNBC for the consecutive six years at a stretch. She also held the position of “Co-anchor” for the “Squawk on the Street” with the host Mark Haines.  She left the news channel CNBC after involving herself for the periodic times of five years in 2011. She stepped back to her previous news channel CNN with her show in her name at the prime time called “Erin Burnett Out-front”.

The documentaries that she had hosted along with these prime time television shows are namely, “city of money and mystery” in 2008, “India Rising, the new empire”, “The Russian Gamble”, “Dollars & Danger: Africa, The Final Investment Frontier (2009)”, “On Assignment – Iraq”, “Big Money in the Middle East (2010”. Burnett did a great work for an investigation and its report on chemical majorTransammonia, who were business owners in Iran. She stated in her news flash that a cent percent subsidiary of Transammonia was doing business transactions with Iran. This led to a kindle of business withdrawal from Iranian business houses. This report won accolades for which Burnett was ornamented with an Emmy.