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Read this: Lord Sugar paid £500,000 to chair YouView - Media - guardian.co.uk
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Summary: The entrepreneur was paid 500,000 for chairing YouView over a 12-month period. The payout handed to Sugar, who was appointed at the behest of shareholder Richard Desmond in March 2011 as the venture missed its launch deadlines, dwarfs that of his predecessor Kip Meek, who was paid 97,000 for less than eight months in the role of chairman. Total wages and social security costs for YouView's average employee base of 29 in 2012 was 3.25m an average of 112,206 per staff member. - guardian.co.uk
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