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Charles Koch? I am struggling to think that there are any examples that you won't dismiss, no matter how applicable. Dan Schulman, Dara Khosrowshahi, Dr. Helm

• michael_j_ward 6y ago
  Charles Koch falls in the bin of "earns more on their wealth during that time." There is another bin that is "paid for brand-building advertisement." - i.e. celebrities. The proposition is that ex-government officials are just getting paid market rate for her knowledge and insight. If that's the case, it should be trivially easy to find non government officials people getting paid $300k a speech for their knowledge. You've identified listings - which is better than I thought there would be ! - but not sales. Yellen earned $7.2m in two years. If all three of those combined earned half as much in speaking fees over that same time, I'd be definitely convinced that it's ho-hum
• michael_j_ward 6y ago
  Adding here because I can't reply to my own link If you're a motivated research reading this interested in answering this empirically, I'd suggest trying to find organizations that both pay this level of fees and have to disclose it to the public when they do (I'm hoping this might be the case for public companies under SEC regs, but that's just a hope)