All those positions were gained because of mommy and daddy.
You forgot to include her $600,000 journalist job at NBC!
What’s the pay scale for a rookie network news correspondent with no news experience whatsoever?
Six-hundred thousand bucks!!!!
That’s according to Politico’s Dylan Byers and Maggie Haberman, who report that a prospect who came on board NBC News in November 2011 snared just that level of annual compensation. She was hired to do feel-good stories as part of NBC News’s “Making a Difference” franchise. Her name is Chelsea Clinton.
If that name hadn’t been connected to American royalty, she could have expected to rake in between $100,000 and $200,000 as a first-year network correspondent, a job that people from less-high-profile families snare only through years and years of tireless work covering the news. That salary range is confirmed by several people familiar with the compensation levels at major network news outlets.
“I’m sure that that salary figure is going to make other NBC correspondents’ heads spin right off their shoulders,” says one of those sources.
A spokeswoman for NBC News declined to elaborate on a statement released to Politico, which, of course, refused comment on contractual arrangements.
Life for an NBC News correspondent can be hectic. Events mess with your life. Television and the Web are demanding. Have a look at the recent work of Tom Costello, a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for NBC News. According to Nexis, Costello:
• On June 10 did a story for “NBC Nightly News” on the diabetes epidemic. • On June 10 did a story for the “Today” show on a fatal limo accident in New Jersey. • On June 9 did a story for “NBC Nightly News” on the New Jersey accident. • On June 5 did a story for “NBC Nightly News” on the General Motors safety scandal. • On June 4 did a story for the “Today” show on news regarding missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. • On June 4 did a story for “NBC Nightly News” about people pointing lasers at aircraft. • On June 3 did a story for “NBC Nightly News” on food-borne illnesses.
Idea established: A network correspondent job can be a nonstop experience. A Nexis byline search for “Tom Costello” on NBC News transcripts in the period since Chelsea Clinton started at NBC News fetches 413 hits. A Nexis byline search for Chelsea Clinton herself over that same time period fetches 20 hits.
Here’s a look at some of the stuff she has done.
She interviewed the Geico gecko, asking the little creature, “Now gecko, do people recognize you on the street?” And, “Is there a downside to all this fame?”
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