US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, made a combined $153 million off paid speeches from 2001 to 2015, a report says.
According to CNN’s analysis, in total, the couple gave 729 speeches from February 2001 until May 2015 — when Hillary launched her presidential campaign — for an average payout of $210,795 each address.
Of those speeches, at least 39 were given to big banks — including Goldman Sachs and UBS – which paid the couple $7.7 million.
Hillary alone made at least $1.8 million for her eight speeches to big banks.
The Clintons’ income puts them at the upper end of the top 0.1 percent of earners in the US population, according to government data. The exorbitant pay for light work can distance them from the realities most Americans experience at their jobs, critics argue.