How much do Tony Robbins and the top speakers charge?

Tony Robbins, the world's best-paid motivational speaker: $300,000 to $1 million a talk. Bureaus list him at $500,000 to $750,000, single days have sold for $1 million. Barack Obama: $400,000 and up, the number that made headlines in 2017 and has only gone up. Michelle Obama: reported at $741,000. Richard Branson, founder of Virgin: $200,000 to $500,000, and every dollar goes to his Virgin Unite foundation. That is the model I run too: 100% of my fees fund social innovation. The other end of the ladder: the median keynote fee is $2,500, 9 in 10 speakers earn under $10,000, 1 in 22 reaches $20,000. Between the top and the median sits a 400x gap. No music chart has that. That is why I call public speaking a young industry.