Chelsea Clinton has joined the family business. After helping to run the family foundation, she has followed her parents onto the paid speaking circuit. While she doesn’t yet command the six-figure fees her mother garners, Chelsea commands up to $75,000 for an appearance.
While Bill and Hillary make the rounds of trade groups, Wall Street bankers and college graduations, Chelsea focuses on different venues, primarily using her star power to help raise donations and support for groups with similar goals as the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, which she helps run. The speeches focus on topics like eradicating waterborne diseases and helping to empower women and girls and her speaking fees have helped to raise the foundation’s endowment.
Still, for a woman whose main qualification for giving speeches is that she used to be the first daughter, the price tag is rather hefty. Former governor Jeb Bush, a potential Republican presidential candidate, makes an estimated $50,000 per speech.
This could be a reason why Chelsea has such a blase attitude towards money. She confessed in an interview with Fast Company last month that she “couldn’t care less about money.” When explaining why she passed up several lucrative careers in order to work for her parents’ foundation (and if that clause doesn’t say privilege, what does?), Chelsea told the magazine that “I was curious if I could care about (money) on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t.”
