Britain's ex-prime minister is paid up to $10,000 an hour advising Anthropic, Microsoft, and Goldman

Rishi Sunak, who served as the UK's prime minister from 2022 to 2024, now earns up to $10,000 per hour as a senior advisor to tech giants Anthropic, Microsoft, and Goldman Sachs. Sunak's high-paying advisory roles have earned him a combined total of over $2.9 million from the three positions, according to the public register of MPs' financial interests.

Goldman Sachs pays Sunak the most, with about £1.1 million a year, or roughly $1.5 million, for an estimated 175 hours of work annually. This equates to approximately $8,300 per hour. Anthropic pays Sunak around $495,000, or $7,000 an hour, for his services, based on a one-year contract where the shares were valued at £373,000 when the contract began.

Sunak's work with Microsoft is the most lucrative per hour, with the tech giant paying him about £741,735 annually, or almost $1 million for an estimated 96 hours of work. This translates to roughly $10,200 an hour. Sunak's other advisory role, writing a column for The Sunday Times, earns him £28,500 a quarter, or about $580 an hour for five hours of work per week.

Sunak, who started his career as a Goldman analyst before completing an MBA at Stanford, has donated his earnings to charity. He and his wife, Akshata Murthy, have a joint wealth of about $750 million, with the majority coming from Murthy's father, who founded Indian tech firm Infosys. In 2022, Sunak and his wife set up The Richmond Project, which aims to improve people's numeracy skills.