Chelsea Clinton Net Worth (Money & Salary)

Chelsea Clinton’s Net Worth and Salary Explained

As the daughter of Bill Clinton, a former U.S. President, and Hillary Clinton, a former U.S. Secretary of State and Senator, Chelsea Clinton has an estimated net worth of $30 million. This amount reflects the joint net worth she shares with her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, who works as a partner at the major private equity firm TPG. Chelsea amassed her share of wealth through her tenure at consulting firm McKinsey & Company and her positions on various corporate boards, including the internet giant IAC. According to a January 2020 SEC filing, Chelsea earned $9 million in compensation from her board membership at IAC by that time. In previous years, she received $250,000 annually from her role on the board of Expedia.

Having been in the spotlight since childhood, Chelsea experienced life in the White House while her father served as Governor of Arkansas. Her teenage years, marked by some awkward moments, were well-covered by media outlets globally. Unlike Vice President Al Gore’s more polished daughters, Chelsea was perceived as the relatable, “everyman” first daughter. However, she transformed into a sophisticated, intelligent woman by the time she arrived at Stanford University, developing the skills of a seasoned politician. Chelsea later obtained a master’s degree from University College, Oxford, and another from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. She actively participates on various boards, such as Common Sense Media, the School of American Ballet, and the Clinton Global Initiative. Throughout her mother’s presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2016, Chelsea campaigned energetically, while also achieving her doctorate at the University of Oxford. Chelsea and Marc Mezvinsky’s marriage, to a prosperous investment banker, allows her to enjoy a comfortable lifestyle as she travels for political engagements worldwide.

Early Life

Chelsea Victoria Clinton was born on February 27, 1980, in Little Rock, Arkansas, while her father, Bill, was serving his first term as Arkansas’s governor. Hillary mentioned that upon hearing Judy Collins’ 1960 recording of Joni Mitchell’s “Chelsea Morning,” Bill suggested naming their daughter Chelsea if they ever had one. Like her parents, Clinton demonstrated an academic inclination, reading by age three, and she skipped third grade. In 1993, Bill Clinton became the 42nd President of the United States, and the family relocated to Washington, D.C., where Chelsea enrolled in Sidwell Friends School. By 1997, she had achieved the status of National Merit Scholarship semifinalist and graduated from high school that same year, with her father being the commencement speaker. During the speech, Bill Clinton remarked: “A part of us longs to hold you once more.” Sidwell Friends School is renowned as the “Harvard of Washington D.C.’s private schools,” and it was also attended by Sasha and Malia Obama.

Continuing her education at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, Clinton graduated with high honors in 2001, earning a bachelor’s degree in history. She pursued an MPhil degree in international relations at Oxford University, completing it in 2003, and subsequently obtained her MPH degree at Columbia University’s School of Public Health in 2010. By 2012, she had begun her teaching career at Columbia.

Career

Clinton began her career after graduating from Stanford and Oxford, working first with McKinsey & Company as well as Avenue Capital Group. Following this, she became the co-chair for a fund-raising week for the Clinton Foundation and subsequently took on the role of Vice-Chair for 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, NBC appointed Chelsea as a special correspondent, a role that permitted her to continue her work with the Clinton Foundation while pursuing her graduate studies. In February 2012, her contract with NBC was renewed, but she departed from the position in late summer 2014.

Since 2011, Clinton has played an active role within the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation. Her contributions include being a board member, delivering paid speeches, and donating her speaking fees back to the foundation. The focus of the Clinton Foundation includes enhancing global health, creating opportunities for women, and fostering economic development. 

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

In 2020, it was revealed that Clinton was developing an Olympic-themed children’s book. This upcoming title, “She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game,” will be the third addition to her “She Persisted” series, focusing on women athletes. The book is set to be published on September 22 and will highlight prominent figures such as Wilma Rudolph, Mia Hamm, and Venus and Serena Williams.

Philomel Books, the children’s imprint publishing Clinton’s works, is also launching a series of 80-page chapter books centered around the women featured in the “She Persisted” series. To kick off the series, Chelsea and Hillary Clinton will write the foreword for books about Harriet Tubman, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Oprah Winfrey.

In 2017, she co-authored a scholarly text titled “Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?” In 2019, alongside her mother, she co-wrote “The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience,” and they conducted a promotional tour for the book.

Clinton has also contributed to various articles and opinion pieces featured in prominent 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. Clinton has been developing this business model for several months and expressed 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 commenced her campaign efforts in Iowa to support her mother’s pursuit of the Democratic presidential nomination. She traveled extensively across the country, predominantly visiting college campuses. Over a span of five months, Chelsea spoke on her mother’s candidacy at 100 colleges. Ultimately, Hillary Clinton did not secure the Democratic nomination in the 2008 election, losing to Barack Obama.

In 2016, Clinton actively participated in her mother’s presidential campaign as well. She made appearances at over 200 public events nationwide. In July 2016, she delivered a heartfelt and personal introduction for her mother at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, reflecting on her upbringing and her mother’s dedication to various issues and public service.

Personal Life

Clinton married Marc Mezvinsky, an investment banker, in 2010. The families of the Clintons and the Mezvinskys had been friends since the 1990s, with their children having met at a Democratic political retreat in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. The couple became engaged during Thanksgiving weekend in 2009, and after their honeymoon, they settled in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of New York City. Their wedding took place in an interfaith ceremony (Mezvinsky is Jewish, while Clinton is Methodist) in Rhinebeck, New York, followed by a reception at Astor Courts, an estate 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.

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

Turning 40 in February 2020, Chelsea Clinton was praised by her father in a 2001 interview, where he expressed how proud he was that his daughter “has her mother’s character and her father’s energy,” during a New York Times interview.

In 2020, Chelsea Clinton pointed out that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic was resulting in deaths due to President Donald Trump’s mishandling and lack of a feasible strategy to contain its spread.

At the beginning of July 2020, Clinton voiced her support on Twitter for renaming schools in Virginia’s Hanover County that were named after Confederate Generals. She asserted, “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, schools like Stonewall Jackson Middle School and Lee-Davis High School reflect this issue. In response, the Hanover County chapter of the NAACP filed a lawsuit for the name changes. On July 14, 2020, the Hanover County school board voted 4-3 in favor of renaming the two schools associated with Confederate military leaders.

Salary Highlights

A January 2020 SEC filing disclosed that Chelsea garnered $9 million in compensation from IAC, where she has served on the Board alongside Barry Diller. Previously, she held a position on the Board at the internet company Expedia, where her annual base salary was $250,000. Between 2013 and 2014, she earned $600,000 from NBC.

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 along with a living and dining area that features impressive ten-foot ceilings.

In 2013, they sold this condo for $4.75 million and moved into a more spacious, 5,000-square-foot apartment valued at $10.5 million. This new residence, just a few blocks from their previous home, is notably the longest apartment in Manhattan, spanning an entire city block between 26th and 27th streets. The unit is described as luxurious and ultra-modern, designed with an “environmentally-conscious” concept, offering breathtaking views of Madison Square Park.