Chelsea Clinton is a recent college graduate and has no work experience. How many other recent college graduates in the open market are able to get a first job for over $100,000 / year?
in all fairness, 100K per year is pretty much standard entry level salary (likely with up to 10K sign on bonus and proably up to 30% annual bonus) for first year associates at the top tier strategy consulting firms such as McKinsey, Booz, Bain, BCG etc. These are typically fresh out of grad school, MBA, Law, Master, PhD programs, they pick the grads from the best schools with little or no work experience and train them in specific consulting methodologies.
And the salary is on par, maybe even a little lower, when compared with first year associates at the top law firms and the top investment banks.