Sarah Palin Rakes In $12 Million-Plus Since Quitting Governorship

Sarah Palin has reportedly raked in more than $12 million since resigning as governor of Alaska in July 2009, according to ABC News.

Over the past year, Palin's large paychecks have come under scrutiny by the media as well as by members of the Republican Party.

The ex-Alaska governor collected a $1.25 million paycheck for her memoir Going Rogue: An American Life, boasts an astounding $100,000 speaking fee, and will reap $1 million for each episode she shoots of her upcoming reality television show, Sarah Palin's Alaska.

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Sarah Palin collected a $1.25 million "retainer" for her best-selling memoir Going Rogue: An American Life, according to a financial disclosure made by the ex-Alaska Governor. The Associated Press reports that in the end, it's likely Palin will profit on top of the reported $1.25 million for her book book deal with HarperCollins: "The document only provides a partial picture of the book deal because it doesn't cover the three months she has been out of office. Palin doesn't elaborate on her book compensation, describing the $1.25 million figure only as a "retainer" that appears to be a reference to her lucrative advance."

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Sarah Palin collected a $1.25 million "retainer" for her best-selling memoir Going Rogue: An American Life, according to a financial disclosure made by the ex-Alaska Governor. The Associated Press reports that in the end, it's likely Palin will profit on top of the reported $1.25 million for her book book deal with HarperCollins: "The document only provides a partial picture of the book deal because it doesn't cover the three months she has been out of office. Palin doesn't elaborate on her book compensation, describing the $1.25 million figure only as a "retainer" that appears to be a reference to her lucrative advance."

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ABC News reports that Palin's $12 million cash haul translates into an income of "at least 100 times her old salary." (Palin's salary as governor of Alaska was $125,000.)

ABC's Matthew Mosk writes:

The actual number is probably much higher, but is hard to quantify because Palin does not publicize her earnings, and has managed to keep a lid on reliable figures for her earnings from a multi-year contract with Fox News and a second book deal with HarperCollins.

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[twosexy4mycat]

01:11 PM on 05/02/2010

Sarah is STILL the lipstick on the PIG.

[melakfilms]

10:31 PM on 04/17/2010

Hey! A million for every chromosome her latest kid ended up with!

Too soon?

[JerryAguy]

04:24 PM on 04/16/2010

No stories about the ex-vice president that has made 20 times as much hawking fear and misinformation?

[StillAmused]

07:04 AM on 04/15/2010

"SCREEEEECH!"

"... and how about those SCREEEEECH!"

"SCREEEEECH!... you betcha'!"

[PostModernPatriot]

09:43 PM on 04/14/2010

Sarah Palin, souless, venal, know-nothing, hillbilly harpie with no education who just earned 12 million dollars in a few short months. Never was there any income more "UNEARNED" than a single dime paid to HER.

She is a millionairess with a grandson on guvmint health care, the same kind she doesn't want any of the rest of us to have.

[CarolinaYankee]

06:49 PM on 04/14/2010

That should buy alot of six packs, for Six Pack Josie... Yeah, like she is still just a simple girl, she is an elitist now.

[snoopjohnny]

06:44 PM on 04/14/2010

Palin makes a lot more money talking about government than she did working in it. That's the point....and although it seems like a lot, it's a small price to keep her out of government. And as long as she keeps her "prospective candidacy" a mystery, more people will listen to, uh....whatever it is she's saying.

[Beaucheron]

05:55 PM on 04/14/2010

Go Sarah! You know the old saying..."A fool and his money are easily parted". Truer words have never been spoken. Go Sarah! By the time these tea people realize she's a broken-down, one-trick pony selling foul air, she and her kin will be set for life. Go Sarah!

[GayGrandpa]

08:15 PM on 04/14/2010

I do believe that is the plan.

[Wilson201]

04:58 PM on 04/14/2010

The only thing this woman knows is her audience. Professional grifter.

[wassilij]

03:53 PM on 04/14/2010

“A Teabagger walks into a beauty parlor and asks how much it is to become a blond..the woman tells her $12,064. She says "Im a Right Wing Conservative Teabagger..why so expensive?
The woman replies...Oh your with the Tea Party.... then it's only $64 because with you we don't have to do the lobotomy.”..............no offense to blonds

[blueice007]

03:11 PM on 04/14/2010

Could someone please make sure she pays her income tax?

[murphthesurf3]

02:47 PM on 04/14/2010

SARAH PALIN DENOUNCES SARAH PALIN FOR NOT WALKING THE WALK

"We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation. You are the people who I think of as my people. We live the same lives, in the same way. I don't want to ever get away from that." ---------Sarah Palin Speaking at a fundraiser in Greensoboro, N.C., October 16, 2008.

"WE LIVE THE SAME LIVES, IN THE SAME WAY. I DON'T WANT TO EVER GET AWAY FROM THAT." She's made $12,000,000 in speaking fees, Fox TV position, book sales, and product sales. Still ahead: her tv program.

Not bad. She has every right to make money. She is exercising that right a lot.

What I object to as that she makes her money by representing herself as a champion for the those who are just like her. She markets herself as a mom who identifies with the plain folks in the Tea Party and who roundly mocks ELITES whenever she can. BUT SHE HAS JOINED THOSE ELITES.

PS. elite: a group/class of persons/member of such a group or class enjoying superior intellectual/social or economic status.

Palin certainly meets the social and economic status definition.

[wassilij]

02:37 PM on 04/14/2010

Her salary for Fox has not been disclosed,..... but sources say she is being paid by the Democratic party.

[joebaggadonuts]

01:08 PM on 04/14/2010

So all the complaints about those in the money and power being not True Americans were just bright shiny words to trick those who supported her campaign? How incredibly surprising.

What fools these mortals be. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_meaning_of_The_course_of_true_love_never_did_run_smooth

[murphthesurf3]

12:25 PM on 04/14/2010

Part III.

When it was over, had she returned to govern Alaska she would have continued to grow. The ethics complaints against her were empty. She would have grown into national leadership.

But, I think she found it all rather boring AND, she discovered she liked the good life.

So, Sarah the Tea Party heroine emerged. I think she believes a lot of what she says but....

I am sorry, but I am deeply suspicious of anyone who makes an extraordinarily good living on the backs of those who struggle each day to make ends meet. That includes civil rights and union leaders, advocate attorneys, clergy, politicians, and special interest group prophets.

Authenticity requires that you Walk the walk. She did. She no longer does.

There is no reason for her to demand a private jet, or first class accommodations. If she were donating her fees to great causes or wonderful candidate (which her PAC claims is her purpose in life), or endowing scholarships AND also taking a reasonable salary from her earnings, I would respect her.

AND, SHE IS BEING USED. Sarah is savvy, but she is not smart. I am sorry, but any comparison between playground bullies and nuclear strike capability and proliferation marks the person who makes such comments as uninformed and naive. BUT, the Michelle Bachmann's and Liz Cheney's of the world are smart and they have hooked onto Sarah because she has a certain appeal. Sad and dangerous.

[BlackWidowPilot]

01:08 PM on 04/14/2010

What you've just described are willful users willfully using one another. They are the stock in trade of the GOP:

http://www.republicanoffenders.com

http://www.armchairsubversive.org

I beg to differ about Sarah Moose-olini; she's always been about Sarah, and her record has shown thus fro the get-go. One need only pay attention to her actual performance record as mayor, and then half-governor, just as one needed only to look at her former running mate Exxon Johnny McSame to know he was all talk, no do.

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

[murphthesurf3]

01:32 PM on 04/14/2010

Looked at both website. Neither seems all that compelling in re. to GOP culture. They speak to human weakness found everywhere. There are similar lists for the folks on our side of the argument.

Sarah has certainly become a part of a cabal now. Sad. She did have promise.

I stand by the record as represented by state newspapers, and independent reporting.