How much money does Jeremy Clarkson make from his ‘10 jobs’ including Clarkson’s Farm?

Jeremy Clarkson - journalist, television personality, host, farmer…

However you know the Grand Tour presenter, he has made a name for himself across the industry, whether it be for good reasons or bad.

Jeremy began his journalism career as a local reporter in 1988 for newspapers including the Rochdale Observer and Star, and built his way up to national prominence as a motorsport specialist through presenting shows such as Top Gear and writing national newspaper articles. 

As of 2023, Jeremy confessed on the Performance People podcast to Georgia and Ben Ainslie, that he currently works 10 jobs, although the future of some are hanging in the balance following his controversial comments about Meghan Markle in December 2022.

Clarkson said: “I’ve got 10 jobs now, I’ve got the brewery, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, Grand Tour, three newspaper columns a week, farm, farm show…”

In light of Jeremy Clarkson’s host of jobs, PeopleWorld takes a look at how much the 62-year-old could be worth and how much he is earning from each role.

Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Jeremy Clarkson took over the hit ITV quiz show from Chris Tarrant in 2018, after Clarkson’s acrimonious split from the BBC two years prior, and is said to earn £3 million a year for the hosting gig.

As mentioned, the presenting role may be up for question in the wake of Clarkson’s infamous Sun article where he said he hated Meghan Markle at a ‘cellular level’, but as for now ITV’s boss said Jeremy is still the host ‘at the moment.’

Top Gear - Grand Tour

Before driving over to Amazon Prime for the Grand Tour series and before Jeremy had problems with the BBC, the Doncaster-born host had a salary of £2.9 million a year for Top Gear.

On top of this huge figure, Jeremy also owned 30% of Top Gear rights so received £5-9 million a year in dividends.

Despite Jeremy, Richard Hammond and James May exiting Top Gear, the trio were in hot demand as Amazon Prime paid an eye-watering £160 million to reunite the veteran presenters for 36 episodes of the now hugely successful Grand Tour series.

Although that statistic was the up-front cost to bring back the three amigos, Jeremy is reportedly paid £833,000 an episode and an annual salary of £10 million.

Clarkson’s Farm

While the exact statistics are not available as to how much Jeremy Clarkson gets paid by Amazon Prime to make Clarkson’s Farm, one can guess it is surely in the millions.

This can not only be seen by his previous wages by the streaming service, but also by his further comments on Performance People where he stated his ‘motivation’ for the show is “to make it profitable. It's not really an ambition. It's editorially interesting."

Farmer/Brewery

As fans learnt in the Amazon Prime show, Clarkson made a profit of only £144 in his first farming season revealing that he lost more than he gained from his role as a farmer.

While he may have not reaped the benefits from his work as a farmer in 2020-2021, Jeremy also created a beer called Hawkstone using crops from Diddly Squat farm, and it became the UK’s number one selling beer on Amazon after just eight hours of launching.

Column writer/author

Jeremy stated that he writes three newspaper columns a week for namely the Sun and the Sunday Times, although he self-proclaimed he wasn’t sure how long his career would last after he continued to make controversial remarks.

According to reports, he has an alleged $4 million salary a year for his columns, and hugely profitable book sales which all add up to his £50 million net worth.