She did her schooling from Warren central high school in Indianapolis. She made it look very easy and topped her class for the most part of schooling. At this point in time, she had already decided about which career path to take and it was journalism for her. After completing her high school in 1968, she enrolled herself in the Indiana University for Higher Studies. She completed her college a couple of years later with flying colors as she was a very good student all her life.

After college, she joined WISH-TV in 1972. She worked there as a journalist and a very god one at that. She was known for her hard work as soon as she joined the TV channel. Everyone including the other TV channels liked her for the amount of work that she did and the quality that she brought to the TV channel. She started getting offers from different other TV channels to move over to their company.

In 1976 she went ahead a joined NBC one of America’s biggest news channel and never looked back. From that point on her career took a huge takeoff and she never looked back. In the beginning, she started hosting NBC's special program called Today. She co-hosted this show with Tom Brokaw. In 1989, she had some misunderstanding with the shows directors and so she resigned from the show and started doing another show called Real Life With Jane Pauley. She did this show for a couple of years and then left it for another show called Dateline. This show was very famous among the viewers and she became an instant success in the news reporting field. She continues doing the show for 11 years stopping the production in 2003 when she felt the need to change the show as it was getting repetitive and boring.

In 2004, she created her own show called The Jane Pauley show. This show, however, was not as famous as her other shows and didn’t gain traction among the fans. This led to the cancellation of the show just after some episodes. She also did promotional shows for Barack Obama in Indiana when he was running for the president. She married Garry Trudeau in 1980 in front of family members and close friends. She continues to have a very happy life with her husband. Pauley won the prestigious Paul White Award in 1998, his award is given to the person doing exceptional job in the news reporting field

Being a high-profile reporter and anchor her salary is very high, however, the details about the salary and her net worth is not known and it is expected to be around $10 million. Her biography can be read on Wikipedia and she can be followed on Facebook as well as twitter.