Hillary Clinton's makes more on one speech than average CEO makes in a year

Paul Beddard:
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton's charge that corporate CEOs earn 300 times more than their workers isn't just wrong. It hides another very real wage gap: She earns more in just one speech than the average American CEO in a year.

Mark J. Perry, a University of Michigan professor and author of the American Enterprise Institute's popular Carpe Diem blog, did the fact-checking of Clinton's numbers and came up with that result.

The average CEO, using Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, makes $216,100. Clinton's speaking agent, the Harry Walker Agency Inc., charged about $275,000 a speech and packaged three for Wall Street's Goldman Sachs at $675,000.

Perry used the BLS average salary for all CEOs, not just the top ones Clinton likes to cite.
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This should put a serious crimp in her anti-business demagoguery.  It is more evidence of her liberal privilege and dishonesty.

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