Nigel Farage earned over £2m from the equivalent of 219 working days for jobs outside Parliament during his first two years as Clacton-on-Sea’s MP, The i Paper can reveal.
Farage logged 1,603 hours of work for 16 companies between his election on 5 July 2024 and resignation on 8 July 2026, analysis of his declared financial interests shows. His decision to step down triggered Thursday’s by-election, which he won comfortably.
His declared outside income during that period works out to £1,252 an hour – about 99 times the £12.71 minimum wage. The number of days worked is based on ONS data showing the average UK working day is 7.32 hours.
At the same time, he contributed to Parliament fewer than 90 times, and it is not clear how many working days he spent in Clacton. Farage did not respond to questions from this paper on how much time he has spent in his constituency.
He has long defended his outside income and has insisted he takes his job as MP seriously, saying in 2024: “I can comfortably work 80, 100 hours a week – I am a workaholic.”
