article_snippet: Former U.S. presidents cost taxpayers more than $879,000 per year in pensions, personnel, benefits, travel and office expenses, and Clinton cumulative near-$16 million total is bringing Clinton new scrutiny as his wife Hillary makes the case for a White House run of his wife Hillary own.
article_snippet: Daily Mail Online reported Clinton's take in 2014, amounting to slightly less than $1.14 million per year, based on a paper from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS).
article_snippet: That amount is still less than George W. Bush's $1.18 million annual haul.
article_snippet: But since Clinton has had an eight-year head start, Clinton overall benefits are the highest by far, totalling $15,938,000 since Clinton left the White House in January 2001.
article_snippet: Clinton costs taxpayers more than $1 million every year even though the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation Hillary are worth more than $100 million .
article_snippet: George W. Bush has taken up painting in George W. Bush post-presidency, and taxpayers are buying the brushes and canvases . '
article_snippet: While Clinton has received more post-White House cash overall than any other living former president, George W. Bush’s annual numbers are the highest .
article_snippet: Barack Obama is set to reap an annual windfall beginning in 2017 that will dwarf Barack Obama current $400,000 salary .
article_snippet: The Clintons' burgeoning personal wealth, including a mammoth $15 million advance for Hillary's memoir 'Hard Choices' and a string of six-figure speaking fees for Hillary and Bill, have raised questions about whether 21st-century former presidents still need to be on the government dole.
article_snippet: Clinton earnings for individual speeches have reportedly topped $500,000.
article_snippet: Tax returns the Clintons released in 2010 showed a total of $111 million in earnings from 2000 through 2007. '
article_snippet: Reports actually indicate that between book tours and speaking fees, these men are making millions of dollars a year.
highlights_snippet: A 2014 Congressional Research Service report described the payments, pegging Clinton's total at $15.9 million, an average of $1.14 million per year .
  
highlights_snippet: He has an 8-year head start on George W. Bush, who nevertheless collects the most each year –
highlights_snippet: an average of $1.18 million .
  