Chelsea Clinton Net Worth (Money & Salary)

What is Chelsea Clinton’s net worth and Salary?

Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Bill Clinton, a former President of the United States, and Hillary Clinton, a former Secretary of State and Senator, has a net worth estimated at $30 million. This figure represents a combined net worth with her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, who is a partner at TPG, a leading private equity firm. Chelsea gained her share of this wealth through her work at McKinsey & Company and various roles on corporate boards, including that of the internet company IAC. A filing with the SEC in January 2020 highlighted that she had earned $9 million in compensation while serving on IAC’s board. Additionally, she previously received a salary of $250,000 annually while on Expedia’s board.

Having been in the spotlight since childhood, Chelsea experienced life in the White House as her father served as Governor of Arkansas. Her teenage years, marked by a level of awkwardness, were famously chronicled by media outlets globally. Unlike Al Gore’s daughters, who were more polished, Chelsea embodied the typical “everyman” first daughter persona. However, she evolved into a sophisticated, intelligent, and politically astute woman by the time she started at Stanford University. Over time, she transformed into a skilled politician. Chelsea earned a master’s degree from University College, Oxford, as well as a degree from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Furthermore, she holds positions on various boards, including Common Sense Media, the School of American Ballet, and, naturally, the Clinton Global Initiative. Throughout her mother’s presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2016, she worked vigorously and also managed to attain a doctorate from Oxford. Her marriage to Marc Mezvinsky, a successful investment banker, has afforded her a luxurious lifestyle, enabling her to travel worldwide for political engagements.

Early Life

Chelsea Victoria Clinton entered the world on February 27, 1980, in Little Rock, Arkansas, during her father Bill’s initial gubernatorial term. Hillary noted that upon hearing Judy Collins’ 1960 rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “Chelsea Morning,” Bill expressed that if they were ever blessed with a daughter, her name should be Chelsea. Chelsea displayed an inclination for academics, much like her parents, and had learned to read by age three, even skipping the third grade. Following her father’s election as the 42nd President of the United States in 1993, the family relocated to Washington, D.C., where she attended Sidwell Friends School. By 1997, she had achieved the status of a National Merit Scholarship semifinalist and graduated high school that same year, with her father as the graduation speaker. During his speech, Bill Clinton remarked: “A part of us longs to hold you once more.” Sidwell Friends School is widely recognized as the “Harvard of Washington D.C.’s private institutions,” with Sasha and Malia Obama also being alumni.

For her college education, Chelsea chose Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where she graduated with top honors in 2001, earning a bachelor’s degree in history. She then pursued an MPhil degree in international relations at Oxford University, which she completed in 2003. In 2010, she obtained her MPH degree from Columbia University’s School of Public Health and began teaching there in 2012.

Career

Clinton began her professional journey after completing her education at Stanford and Oxford, where she worked at McKinsey & Company and Avenue Capital Group. Following this, she took on the role of co-chair for a fund-raising week for the Clinton Foundation and subsequently became Vice-Chair of the foundation. In addition, she holds positions on the board of the School of American Ballet and IAC’s board of directors. Chelsea was hired by NBC as a special correspondent in late 2011, a three-month engagement that enabled her to continue her work with the Clinton Foundation and pursue her graduate studies. NBC later renewed her contract in February 2012, but she departed from the role in late summer 2014.

Since 2011, Clinton has played a significant role in the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation. As a board member, she delivers paid speeches while donating her earnings back to the foundation. The organization is dedicated to enhancing global health, fostering opportunities for women, and facilitating economic development. 

Clinton is the author of five children’s picture books: “It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired and Get Going” published in 2015, “She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World,” released in 2017 (later adapted into a musical), “She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History” and “Start Now!: You Can Make a Difference” from 2018, as well as “Don’t Let Them Disappear: 12 Endangered Species Across the Globe” launched in 2019. Her second and third children’s books achieved instant bestseller status.

In 2020, news emerged that Clinton was working on a children’s book themed around the Olympics. This book, part of her “She Persisted” series, will highlight women in sports and is titled “She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game,” set to be published on September 22. It will feature notable athletes like Wilma Rudolph, Mia Hamm, and the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena.

Philomel Books, the imprint responsible for publishing Clinton’s children’s books, is also set to release a chapter book series containing 80-page stories featuring women from the “She Persisted” series. Chelsea and Hillary Clinton are slated to write the foreword for the initial books focusing on Harriet Tubman, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Oprah Winfrey.

Additionally, she co-authored a scholarly book titled “Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?” in 2017. In 2019, she collaborated with her mother on “The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience,” which they promoted together on a tour.

Numerous articles and opinion pieces authored by her have been published in prominent media outlets such as CNN.com, Time magazine, Huffington Post, Refinery 29, among others.

In July 2020, Clinton made the announcement of her plans to establish a venture capital firm named Metrodora Ventures. She has been developing this business concept for several months and has shown interest in investing in at least two healthcare startups, one of which is a pregnancy support app known as Poppy Seed Health.

Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaigns

In December 2007, Chelsea Clinton started campaigning in Iowa to support her mother’s aspirations for the Democratic presidential nomination. She traveled extensively across the country, focusing primarily on college campuses. During a five-month period, Chelsea addressed her mother’s candidacy at 100 colleges. Ultimately, Hillary Clinton was unable to secure the Democratic nomination in the 2008 race, losing to Barack Obama.

In 2016, Chelsea also played a significant role in her mother’s presidential campaign, participating in over 200 public events nationwide. In July of that year, she delivered a deeply personal and emotional tribute while introducing her mother at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, reflecting on her own upbringing and highlighting her mother’s dedication to pivotal issues and public service.

Personal Life

Chelsea Clinton married investment banker Marc Mezvinsky in 2010. The two families, having been friends since the 1990s, saw their children meet at a Democratic political retreat in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Proposal occurred over Thanksgiving weekend in 2009, and following their honeymoon, the couple settled in New York City’s Gramercy Park neighborhood. Their wedding was an interfaith ceremony (with Mezvinsky being Jewish and Clinton Methodist) held in Rhinebeck, New York. The reception took place at Astor Courts, an estate overlooking the Hudson River owned by Kathleen Hammer, previously a producer at Oxygen Media. On April 17, 2014, Clinton revealed at a New York forum that she and Marc were expecting their first child.

Charlotte, their first child, was born on September 26, 2014. Aidan, their son, followed on June 18, 2016. Their second son, Jasper, was born on July 22, 2019.

In February 2020, Chelsea Clinton celebrated her 40th birthday. During a 2001 New York Times interview, her father expressed immense pride in saying that his daughter “has her mother’s character and her father’s energy.”

In 2020, she asserted that the lack of effective management by President Donald Trump during the coronavirus pandemic had resulted in countless deaths.

In early July 2020, Chelsea Clinton expressed her support for renaming schools named after Confederate Generals in Virginia’s Hanover County via Twitter. She stated: “I am not a resident of Hanover County in Virginia, but I am a parent. We shouldn’t have schools that celebrate the legacy of slavery and white supremacists in this country. All of our children deserve better.” For example, Stonewall Jackson Middle School and Lee-Davis High School are named after these Confederate military figures. The Hanover County NAACP chapter is currently in litigation to change the names. On July 14, 2020, the school board of Hanover County voted 4-3 to rename the two schools linked to Confederate leaders.

Salary Highlights

According to a January 2020 SEC filing, Chelsea Clinton has received $9 million in compensation from IAC, where she has worked as a Board member alongside Barry Diller. Previously, she held a position on the Board at the internet company Expedia, earning an annual base salary of $250,000. Additionally, Chelsea received $600,000 from NBC during the years 2013 and 2014.

Real Estate

In 2008, Chelsea and Marc acquired a three-bedroom, 1,922-square-foot condo in central Manhattan for $4 million. Situated on the tenth floor, the condo boasts an open chef’s kitchen and a spacious living and dining area beneath beautiful ten-foot ceilings.

In 2013, the couple sold this condo for $4.75 million and subsequently purchased a more spacious, 5,000-square-foot apartment for $10.5 million. Located a few blocks from their previous residence, this new apartment is the longest in the entire city, extending an entire Manhattan block between 26th and 27th street. It is a luxurious, ultra-modern, “environmentally-conscious” unit featuring breathtaking views of Madison Square Park.