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 "name": "Lanyardo Speaker Fee Index",
 "title": "Speaker Fee Index",
 "url": "https://lanyardo.com/datasets/speaker-fee-index/",
 "csv": "https://lanyardo.com/datasets/speaker-fee-index.csv",
 "markdown": "https://lanyardo.com/datasets/speaker-fee-index/index.md",
 "computed_at": "2026-09-15",
 "license": "https://lanyardo.com/terms",
 "headline": "The median published figure in the Speaker Fee Index is 10,000 USD across 20 figures from 8 sources' own pages (range 1,000 to 100,000 USD), read 15 September 2026.",
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  "The median published figure in the Speaker Fee Index is 10,000 USD across 20 figures from 8 sources' own pages (range 1,000 to 100,000 USD), read 15 September 2026.",
  "8 of the 20 named sources read in full publish a figure; 12 publish none, read 15 September 2026.",
  "Speaker Fee Index, rung professional: median 5,000 USD across 6 sources, read 15 September 2026.",
  "Speaker Fee Index, rung celebrity: median 50,000 USD across 6 sources, read 15 September 2026.",
  "Speaker Fee Index, rung emerging: median 1,500 USD across 5 sources, read 15 September 2026.",
  "Speaker Fee Index, rung author or executive: median 20,000 USD across 3 sources, read 15 September 2026."
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   "url": "https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/searchfee.php?fee=1",
   "label": "allamericanspeakers.com",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  }
 ],
 "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through the estate's fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 8 of the 20 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 12 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 105 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. Derivation as chartered: the fee BANDS each bureau publishes and where it puts each speaker category, joined across bureaus into one ladder (emerging, professional, author or executive, celebrity or head of state) with the median band boundary and the disagreement between bureaus at each rung; the bureau commission each publisher states, added to give the booking cost rather than the fee; the share of bureaus that publish any range at all against roster-only",
 "embed": "<figure style=\"margin:0;padding:16px;border:1px solid #d9d9d9;border-radius:8px;background:#ffffff;color:#111111;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;max-width:480px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-size:28px;font-weight:700;color:#111111;background:#ffffff\">10,000 USD</p><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-size:14px;color:#111111;background:#ffffff\">median published figure, Speaker Fee Index, across 8 sources, read 15 September 2026</p><figcaption style=\"font-size:12px;color:#444444;background:#ffffff\"><a href=\"https://lanyardo.com/datasets/speaker-fee-index/#median\" style=\"color:#1a4fd6;background:#ffffff\">Source: Lanyardo Speaker Fee Index</a></figcaption></figure>"
}