Vaishali Varu
Rishi Sunak’s net worth makes him the richest-ever prime minister to have occupied 10 Downing Street.
The former Conservative Party leader and his wife, Akshata Murty, have a personal fortune of £640 million, according to The Sunday Times Rich List 2025.
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What is Rishi Sunak’s net worth?
Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty’s combined worth is £640 million, according to The Sunday Times.
Most of it comes from Murty’s shareholdings in Infosys, an Indian IT company founded by her father, N. R. Narayana Murthy (known as the Steve Jobs of India) in 1981. The company’s market capitalisation as of May 2025 is roughly £57 billion.
Murty has a 0.93% stake in the company. In April, Mint reported that Infosys’ share price had fallen over 26% on a year-to-date basis, and shares have declined 30% over the past six months.
The latest annual report suggests that Murty received about £7.5 million in dividends — adding to the £73+ million she has already been paid over the years.
While Murty’s vast fortunes are well-known, her tax affairs have not been quite as transparent. At one point, this “threatened to end Sunak’s chance to lead the country”, according to The Sunday Times. Murty held a non-dom status that meant she could avoid paying UK tax on her Infosys dividends, possibly as much as £20.6 million.
However, she announced she would stop using the special status soon after the fact made headlines during Sunak’s premiership.
Murty’s earnings far exceed those of the former prime minister. In February 2024, Sunak released his financial statements, which showed that he made £2.2 million in 2022-23, of which only 6.5% was his MP and prime ministerial wages.
Other earnings include roughly £1.8 million through capital gains and around £300,000 from interest and dividends, and he paid £508,308 in tax.
The Sunaks have an extensive property portfolio. According to The Sunday Times, their main Kensington mews house is worth £7 million. They also own a flat on Old Brompton Road in Kensington, a £1.5 million Georgian manor house in North Yorkshire, and a £5.5 million penthouse in Santa Monica, California.
Sunak can also take advantage of the Public Duty Costs Allowance, which will allow him to claim financial support of up to £115,000 a year for any administration costs as a result of his position as a former UK prime minister.
What did Rishi Sunak do before he entered politics?
Before entering politics, Sunak worked as an analyst for Goldman Sachs from 2001 to 2004. He then studied for an MBA at Stanford University in California, where he met his now-wife.
Soon after, he moved back to the UK and joined The Children’s Investment Fund Management (TCI), founded by hedge fund billionaire Chris Hohn. In 2006, the year Sunak became a partner, the firm reported profits of £321 million, according to Companies House documents. In the two years leading up to the financial crisis, TCI saw profits nearing £900 million.
After leaving TCI in 2009, Sunak returned to California to work with former colleagues at the new hedge fund firm Theleme Partners. He served as a director at Catamaran Ventures from 2013 to 2015, before becoming an MP for Richmond and Northallerton – a seat he has held since.
What is Rishi Sunak doing now?
Despite losing out to Starmer in the 2024 general election, Rishi Sunak has hung on to his seat as an MP in his constituency of Richmond and Northallerton.
Many speculated that Sunak would return to California after leaving Downing Street. However, he was quick to debunk this claim at the G20 summit, insisting that he aims to remain an MP for the next few years.
Sunak has now taken up two new jobs at his former universities — an unpaid role at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, and a visiting fellowship at the Hoover Institution, a think tank based at Stanford University.
Meanwhile, Akshata Murty was made a trustee at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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