Daily Mail – by MEGHAN KENEALLY
Hillary Clinton has wasted no time cashing in on the lecture circuit as it was revealed today that she will be charging $200,000 per speech.
The massive fee means that she will be making more from a two-hour lecture than she did in a year as Secretary of State.
The announcement that Mrs Clinton has hired a top talent agency to represent her as she begins to give paid speeches following her departure from the State Department came earlier this week, but her $200,000 asking price was only reported on Wednesday.
Next gig: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has signed up with a talent agency and is commanding $200,000 per lecture, each of which will only last between one and two hours
According to Buzzfeed, that puts her in the same league as her husband former President Bill Clinton who is so in-demand that he can command the six-figure fee.
The volume of the sum is made clear when looked at in comparison to her salary for a year as Secretary of State, which was $186,000.
Mrs Clinton is now represented by the Harry Walker Agency which is known for getting famous politicians and newsmakers plum gigs on the lecture circuit.
The venture is her first formal decision about what she is going to do now that she is no longer working, though she is widely considered to be the Democratic front runner should she decide to run for the presidency in 2016.
Her decision to attach her name to his particular New York-based agency comes as little surprise since her husband former President Bill Clinton has long been represented by the group since he left office in 2000.
The move was clearly a lucrative one, as he made $75.6million from 2001 to 2010 from speaking engagements, making $10.7million in just 2010 alone.
President Clinton is not the only big name with the agency, as his former Vice President Al Gore has been booking $175,000 gigs through their connections, and former New York City mayor and Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani regularly brings in $100,000 per event.
EARNING THEIR KEEP: THE STAR’S LECTURE AND APPEARANCE FEES
Bill Clinton- an average of $181,000, but in 2010 alone he earned $10.7million and a total of $75.6million between 2001 and 2010
Al Gore- $175,000
John Kerry- While working as a Senator prior to his presidential bid in 2004, Kerry averaged $1,400 per speach
Dick Cheney- $75,000 and first class travel for a three-person entourage
Rudy Giuliani- $100,000 per event and he made $9.2million on a speaking tour from 2006 to 2007
Sarah Palin- $75,000 plus transportation
Bristol Palin- $14,000
Charlie Sheen- $200,000 per appearance along with the use of a private jet
Kim Kardashian- Reportedly earned $600,000 from Tao Nightclub in Las Vegas for an undisclosed number of events
Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi- ‘$20,000 to walk the red carpet
Former vice president Dick Cheney, former Senators Olympia Snowe and Joe Lieberman, Obama campaign strategist Jim Messina and former Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan are all represented by The Harry Walker Agency as well.
Her exact asking price has not been reported, but Politico asserts that she ‘will likely do some speeches for no fee for causes she champions, and expects to occasionally donate her fees for charitable purposes’.
While keeping mum about any future presidential plans, Mrs Clinton has said that she plans to write another book, this time about her work as Secretary of State.
Publishing house Simon & Schuster reportedly paid the former first lady an $8million advance on her first book, Living History, which she published in December 2000.
With any and all positions that she decides to take, she will have to weigh the optics of if it would look appropriate for a presidential candidate.
That said, another concern is shoring up a steady income, because it doesn’t come cheap to live like the Clintons and six-figure speaking fees will certainly help.
Equal standing: Hillary is reportedly asking for $200,000 per speech which is the same fee that Bill charges
Though there were early reports that they might buy a house in the Hamptons area of Long Island, it appears now that they will hustle between their current residences in Washington, D.C. and Chappaqua, a quiet town in the suburbs of New York City.
She is also expected to either work with her husband’s Clinton Foundation or start her own, though no decisions about that have been made at this point.
The only thing that Mrs Clinton has publicly confirmed is that she plans to rest after a very taxing four years of traveling to 112 different countries.
As Mrs Clinton remains coy about her political prospects, her potential competitors are being very blatant in their fundraising attempts.
On the Republican side, both New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Florida Senator Marco Rubio have raised significant sums for their campaign war chests in recent weeks.
Mr Christie attended a fundraiser in his honor at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s California home, and Mr Rubio raised $100,000 by selling water bottles with his name on them, playing on his thirst-quenching gaffe during the State of the Union rebuttal.
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I don’t think she’s worth a dime.
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Cathleen, she’s not worth the rope it’ll take to hang her with.
p.s. neither is hubby.
Hillary and Bill might not be worth the rope but I bet if your charged admission that you wold make a hefty profit #1
Actually, digger, I’d pay good money to be the one to drop the trapdoor.
BAHHAHAAHAHAAHAHAAHA!!!! This woman wants $200,000 to have someone hear her talk? Who the HELL DOES SHE THINK SHE IS??? She really does think she’s the QUEEN. I’m sorry, but WE THE PEOPLE don’t consider her to be in “High Demand” of our time. Just go away and play.
By the way, what happened in Benghazi, Hitlery??
Hitlery: “OOOhhh!! Oww! OWW!!! I think I feel my tumor coming back again. Can’t talk about that right now.”
Really? Who in their right mind would pay $200,000 to see that witch from Hell talk??!!!
Oh that’s right!! The same people who would pay $20,000 a plate for a fundraiser for Obama’s re-election campaign.
Can somebody say, “future presidential election fundraising”??? She’s trying to outbid Obama in fundraising.
Once again, each person who gets into office has to quadruple the national debt as well as their fundraisers for campaigning to get into office. Maybe she will actually spend 1 Trillion dollars on her inauguration if and when she gets into office, too.
These puppet presidents act like modern day kings who try to out-lavish the other at the expense of WE THE PEOPLE and our taxpayer’s money. Anyone who can’t see that by now, is a full blown idiot.
Call me crazy, but I’d rather pay $200,000 for a CURE to a disease than pay $200,000 to be INJECTED with the disease. Maybe I need a psychiatrist. I don’t think I’m thinking clearly.