How much is the ambassadorship to France worth? If Friday’s nomination of Obama mega-bundler Jane Hartley is any indication, the answer is $520,000.

Hartley is Chief Executive Officer of Observatory Group, LLC, a political and economic advisory group. She last worked in government four decades ago in the Carter White House, as a senior assistant in the Office of Public Liaison and then as director of congressional relations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.