Chelsea Clinton Net Worth (Money & Salary)

How Much is Chelsea Clinton Worth and What is Her Salary?

The daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State/Senator Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, has a net worth estimated at $30 million. This figure reflects a joint net worth with her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, a partner at the renowned private equity firm TPG. Chelsea has accumulated her share of their wealth during her tenure at the consulting firm McKinsey & Company and through various positions on corporate boards, including the internet company IAC. According to a January 2020 SEC filing, Chelsea received $9 million in compensation from IAC as a board member up to that time. Additionally, she previously earned $250,000 annually for her role on the board of Expedia.

Chelsea Clinton has been under the public spotlight since childhood, as her father served as the Governor of Arkansas.  Spending her formative years in the White House, her awkward teenage experiences were thoroughly covered by global media.  Unlike Vice President Al Gore’s more polished daughters, Chelsea represented a more relatable first daughter, often described as “everyman.” As time passed, she transformed into a sophisticated, intelligent, and politically astute woman by the time she entered Stanford University.  Essentially, she developed into a consummate politician. Chelsea has obtained a master’s degree from University College, Oxford, as well as from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She is involved with several boards, including Common Sense Media, the School of American Ballet, and, of course, the Clinton Global Initiative. She dedicated much effort to support her mother’s Presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2016, finding time to achieve a doctorate at the University of Oxford in the process. Thanks to her marriage to Marc Mezvinsky, a prosperous investment banker, she enjoys a comfortable lifestyle while attending various political events worldwide.

Childhood and Education

Birthed on February 27, 1980, in Little Rock, Arkansas, Chelsea Victoria Clinton was born while her father Bill was serving his first term as governor. Hillary shared that the couple chose the name Chelsea after hearing Judy Collins’ 1960 rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “Chelsea Morning.” Academically driven like her parents, Chelsea demonstrated her reading skills by age three and skipped third grade. In 1993, her father was elected the 42nd President of the United States, prompting the family’s relocation to Washington, D.C., where Chelsea attended Sidwell Friends School. By 1997, she had achieved semifinalist status for the National Merit Scholarship and graduated high school that same year, with her father delivering the graduation address. During his speech, Bill Clinton remarked, “A part of us longs to hold you once more.” Sidwell Friends School is widely regarded as the “Harvard of Washington D.C.’s private schools,” with former students including Sasha and Malia Obama.

Chelsea pursued her college education at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, graduating with honors in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in history. Subsequently, she enrolled at Oxford University, where she obtained her MPhil in international relations in 2003. In 2010, she completed her MPH at Columbia University’s School of Public Health and commenced teaching there in 2012.

Career

Clinton, after completing her education at Stanford and Oxford, began her career at McKinsey & Company and Avenue Capital Group before taking on the roles of co-chair for a fundraising event for the Clinton Foundation and subsequently Vice-Chair of the foundation. Additionally, she holds a position on the board of the School of American Ballet and serves on IAC’s board of directors. In late 2011, Chelsea was recruited by NBC as a special correspondent. This three-month contract permitted her to continue her work with the Clinton Foundation and pursue her graduate studies. In February 2012, NBC extended her contract, but she exited that role in the late summer of 2014.

Since 2011, Clinton has been actively involved with the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, where she is a board member and delivers paid speeches, donating her earnings back to the foundation. The foundation’s mission is centered on enhancing global health, empowering women, and fostering economic growth.

Clinton has authored five children’s picture books, including “It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired and Get Going” (2015), “She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World” (2017, adapted into a musical), “She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History” (2018), “Start Now!: You Can Make a Difference,” and “Don’t Let Them Disappear: 12 Endangered Species Across the Globe” (2019). The second and third of these books quickly became bestsellers.

In 2020, it was disclosed that Clinton was developing an Olympic-themed children’s book, which will be the third entry in her “She Persisted” series and spotlight women in sports. “She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game” is set for publication on September 22 and will feature notable athletes like Wilma Rudolph, Mia Hamm, and Venus and Serena Williams.

The children’s imprint Philomel Books, responsible for Clinton’s children’s titles, is also launching a series of chapter books featuring 80-page stories based on the women from Clinton’s “She Persisted” series. Chelsea and Hillary Clinton will pen the foreword for the initial books spotlighting figures such as Harriet Tubman, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Oprah Winfrey.

In addition to her children’s books, she co-authored a scholarly work titled “Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?” in 2017. Furthermore, in 2019, she collaborated with her mother on “The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience” and embarked on a promotional tour for the book.

Clinton has also contributed numerous articles and opinion pieces to leading media platforms, including CNN.com, Time magazine, Huffington Post, Refinery 29, among others.

In July 2020, she announced her plans to establish a venture capital firm named Metrodora Ventures. Having worked on this business idea for various months, she expressed intent to invest in at least two healthcare startups, one of which is a pregnancy support application called Poppy Seed Health.

Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaigns

In December 2007, Chelsea Clinton began her campaign efforts in Iowa to support her mother’s pursuit of the Democratic presidential nomination. Throughout the country, she primarily focused on college campuses, engaging with students. Over a span of five months, Chelsea addressed her mother’s candidacy at 100 different colleges. Ultimately, Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic nomination in the 2008 election to Barack Obama.

During her mother’s 2016 presidential campaign, Clinton was also very active, participating in over 200 public events nationwide. In a heartfelt and emotional tribute, she introduced her mother at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July 2016, reflecting on her upbringing and her mother’s dedication to public service and important issues.

Personal Life

Clinton married Marc Mezvinsky, an investment banker, in 2010. The families had known each other since the 1990s, and their children met during a Democratic political retreat in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Engaged over Thanksgiving in 2009, the couple later settled in the Gramercy Park area of New York City after their honeymoon. Their wedding was an interfaith ceremony held in Rhinebeck, New York (Mezvinsky is Jewish, and Clinton is Methodist), with a reception at Astor Courts, an estate overlooking the Hudson River owned by former Oxygen Media producer Kathleen Hammer. On April 17, 2014, Clinton announced she and Marc were expecting their first child at a forum in New York.

Their first child, a daughter named Charlotte, arrived on September 26, 2014. A son named Aidan followed on June 18, 2016, and their third child, another son named Jasper, was born on July 22, 2019.

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

In 2020, she criticized President Donald Trump for his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, stating that it contributed to the deaths occurring due to the virus.

In early July 2020, Clinton expressed her support via Twitter for renaming schools named after Confederate Generals in Virginia’s Hanover County, noting: “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.” Examples include Stonewall Jackson Middle School and Lee-Davis High School. In response, the Hanover County chapter of the NAACP filed a lawsuit to change these names. On July 14, 2020, the school board of Hanover County voted 4-3 to rename the two schools associated with Confederate military leaders.

Salary Highlights

A January 2020 SEC filing disclosed that Chelsea has received $9 million in compensation from IAC, where she serves on the Board alongside Barry Diller. Previously, she was a Board member at the internet company Expedia, earning an annual salary of $250,000. During 2013 and 2014, she received $600,000 from NBC.

Real Estate

In 2008, Chelsea and Marc acquired a three-bedroom condo measuring 1,922 square feet in central Manhattan for $4 million. Located on the tenth floor, it boasts an open chef’s kitchen, along with living and dining areas that feature impressive ten-foot ceilings.

In 2013, they sold this condo for $4.75 million and bought a significantly larger 5,000-square-foot apartment valued at $10.5 million. This new residence, just a few blocks from their previous home, is the longest apartment in the city, spanning a complete Manhattan city block between 26th and 27th streets. It is a luxurious, ultra-modern, and environmentally-conscious unit offering breathtaking views of Madison Square Park.