MPs' pay now 4 times higher

According to the Mail:

"Parliament sat for just 146 days in 2007, a joint record low for a non-election year – and equal to just 29 working weeks at Westminster. It compares with an average of 209 days a year since the Second World War. The official report by the Commons authorities also shows that inflation-busting rises in their wages and expenses have doubled the cost of an average MP from £125,000 a year to £250,000 in less than 20 years."

So, after the war, MPs worked more than twice the number of days for what looks like half the salary. This becomes clearer when you look at their per hour pay:

Period	No. Days worked p.a.	Hours per day	Annual pay	Hours per year	Pay per hour
Post-war	209	9.11	£125,000	1904	£66
2007	146	7.67	£250,000	1119	£223

Therefore MPs have, over recent decades, increased their pay by a factor of 4.