Nicole Kidman and Bill Clinton: Speaking Fees Vol. 5 Iss. 34

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Nicole Kidman and Bill Clinton Charge What!? to Speak

Search "speaking industry" or "speaker fees" on the Wall St. Journal's website, Forbes, or Bloomberg and expect to find little.

Apparently "speaking" is not an much of an industry, that is, unless you run into one of the 3,000+ members of the National Speaker's Association based in Tempe, Arizona.

In spite of or, perhaps, because of its "underground" status, speaker "fees" vary wildly from "pro bono," (a euphemism for $0.00) to six-plus figures ( euphemism for celebrity).

In 2011, according to USA Today, former president Bill Clinton made $13.4 million giving 54 speeches. That's an average of about $248,000 per gig. Nicole Kidman rakes in even more: The Journal reported several years ago that an Asian company paid her close to $1million.

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Alex B. Ramsey November 7, 2013

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