Richard Blumenthal salary: How much does Richard Blumenthal make as Connecticut senator?

Richard Blumenthal, an American lawyer and politician who is the senior United States senator from Connecticut earns an estmated annual salary of $10 million.

A large chunk of his estimated annual salary comes from other business ventures. As Connecticut senator, he reportedly earns over $100,000/year

He is a member of the Democratic Party and one of the Senate’s wealthiest members, with a net worth of more than $100 million.

Blumenthal has significant assets from real estate across New York, partly due to his wife, Cynthia Malkin, who is the daughter of real estate mogul Peter Malkin.

From 1991 to 2011, Blumenthal served as Connecticut’s Attorney General.

Blumenthal was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Riverdale Country School, a private school in the Bronx. He received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, where he was the editor-in-chief of The Harvard Crimson.

He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, in England for a year before attending Yale Law School, where he was the editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. Blumenthal served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve from 1970 to 1976, rising to the rank of sergeant.

Blumenthal passed the bar after law school and worked as an administrative assistant and law clerk for several Washington, D.C. figures.

He served as the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut from 1977 to 1981.

He worked in private law practice in the early 1980s, including as volunteer counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.