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The Most Dangerous and Highest Paying Jobs For Bodyguards - YouTube
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The show has ended and you are tasked with
getting your celebrity home safely.
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You take the back door, but what you donât
know is a mass of fans have figured out your
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escape route.
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They surround you and the star they adore.
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You donât only have to protect this person
from being overwhelmed by the adoring fans,
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but thereâs always a chance thereâs a
crazy stalker skulking somewhere in the melee.
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There might be someone who has a grudge against
this person.
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Maybe they took offense to a certain tweet
and are seeking revenge.
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You are like a machine, scanning everyone
around while ushering your star to the car.
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Anything could happen, and youâre willing
to put yourself in front of a bullet if need
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be.
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One thing is for sure.
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You should be getting a nice pay-packet for
this job.
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But how well are bodyguards really paid?
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Letâs find out!
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Regular Bodyguards
Some bodyguards will tell you that their clients
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arenât always that well-known.
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In some cases a person will hire a bodyguard
because it makes them look important.
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Itâs an esteem thing.
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These bodyguards are still going to have to
be trained in things like crowd control, weapons
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use, martial arts, and have a very good awareness
of whatâs going on around them.
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But if they are starting out and are hired
by someone who just wants to show off, they
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will likely get something in the region of
$50 an hour.
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We found a company in the USA that a bodyguard
could be hired from by a private client.
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That client wasnât famous or anything, but
wanted some protection at a funeral where
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there were going to be a lot of emotional
people.
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The bodyguard for that job was paid $75 an
hour.
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Then we found another case when the Super
Bowl was on and people working with the NFL
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were all staying at a resort.
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It wasnât likely that anyone would cause
trouble at that resort, but two bodyguards
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were hired.
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The cost for each bodyguard was $150 an hour
and they had to stay on that site all day.
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Letâs also remember that if those bodyguards
are hired from a company then the company
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takes its cut, so not all the money is actually
going to the person who is guarding.
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Word on the street is that if you choose a
company that offers very low rates youâll
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get what you pay for.
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Still, if you just want to show off a bit,
a $20 an hour bodyguard works.
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Now letâs look at some of the big-hitters.
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Protecting the President
The people who ensure the safety of the president,
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as well as the Vice President, former presidents,
the families of all those people and also
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heads of other countries visiting from certain
countries, work for something called the United
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States Secret Service.
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You know, those guys that always seem to be
wearing sunglasses.
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They do a lot more than just stand around
at public events and monitor crowds, but that
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is one part of their job.
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You are going to need a lot of training for
this position and we donât need to tell
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you that your background check must be spotless.
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There are a lot of positions so wages vary,
but letâs say you are one of the most trusted
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agents and at the top of your game.
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If thatâs you, you could be getting a yearly
salary of $197,300.
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The B-List Bodyguard
So, letâs say youâve been hired by some
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dude that isnât exactly on the front cover
of gossip magazines every month, but is an
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up and comer.
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These people might not really need a bodyguard,
but again in some cases they might like all
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the attention.
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Itâs likely that this B-lister will be paying
in the region of $100 an hour for this bodyguard.
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Sometimes those people just want to create
a buzz around them, and there is likely not
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much of a threat to them.
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Sometimes someone has said something on social
media and that has made them worried.
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We found a guy who had a part in the TV series,
"No Ordinary Familyâ and he said he hired
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a personal bodyguard because of something
that had been said to him on social media.
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It wasnât because he was worried about getting
mobbed by fans.
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Pretty Famous
Then youâve got the people who are very
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well-known but perhaps canât be said to
be in the spotlight that much anymore.
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We found an Israeli bodyguard who said he
had worked for the rock legend Ozzie Osborne.
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He said he teamed up with other former special
forces bodyguards and they got to talking
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about how much they were all paid.
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He said none of them were hired by the most
famous people out there, but people like Ozzie,
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whoâs still pretty damn famous.
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After that chat the guy said it seemed the
average wage between them was something like
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$5,000 a month, but he said that was many
years ago.
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Maybe itâs more like $10,000 a month these
days.
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He also said that if the person was more famous,
itâs more likely theyâd be paid in the
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region of $30,000 a month.
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Bollywood stars
We looked at some of Bollywoodâs biggest
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names, including the man sometimes called
the âKing of Bollywoodâ, Shah Rukh Khan.
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He has a bodyguard named Ravi Singh and that
guy gets a lot of cash.
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For his protection the Bollywood star pays
him about $350,000 a year.
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We found another bodyguard named Shera and
he was paid something in the region of $300,000
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a year.
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This is the man that took care of Justin Bieber
when he was on tour in India.
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Pascal Duvier
This man and his company actually filed for
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bankruptcy, but that was after the woman he
was protecting, one Kim Kardashian, was robbed
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in Paris.
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She later sued him for $6.1 million.
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The thieves got away with around $10 million
worth of jewelry.
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This guy had been the bodyguard for a lot
of very famous people, but no where can we
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see what he and his company were paid.
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We are going to guess and say that he was
paid in the region of $500,000 a year.
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5.
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50 Cent
50 Cent is no stranger to danger and back
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in 2009 he said he spent $20,000 a week on
security at his home, but that included not
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just personnel but all the technology that
went with it.
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One of 50 Centâs security staff said the
place was so secure it was like a military
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base.
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We expect the head of 50 Centâs security
was getting a very big paycheck, but canât
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find the exact number.
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Now for the really big hitters.
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Billionaire Businessmen
If youâve got billions in the bank you can
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afford to spend big on bodyguards.
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Howard Schultz, who was the chairman and CEO
of Starbucks, is worth over $4 billion.
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He paid $511,079 back in 2009 for his personal
security that year.
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Such big six-figures sums are not unusual
for billionaires, but there are others who
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spent a lot more on their security.
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Michael Dell
At around the same time as Schultz was spending
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big on security the company we all know called
Dell was spending a lot more on protecting
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their main man, Michael Dell.
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His around-the-clock security was costing
the company a whopping $1,164,625 a year.
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People thought this was maybe a little over
the top, but the company released a statement,
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saying, âThe board believes that Mr. Dell's
personal safety and security are of vital
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importance.â
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If you think thatâs a lot, itâs about
to get ridiculous.
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Larry Ellison
This co-founder of Oracle is one of the richest
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people in the word with a fortune of around
$70 billion, so he can certainly afford to
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spend a bit on personal security.
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The kind of security we are talking about
here is not just big and burly men that follow
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you around in public, but about experts making
sure security technology is running smoothly
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in the home.
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In 2016, it was reported that Ellison was
spending $1.6 million a year on his personal
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security.
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This was pretty much the same amount as the
richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, was
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spending on his personal security.
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The problem with giving you names of bodyguards
is that the men and their companies donât
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disclose much information about who they are
paying and what exactly they are paying for.
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We just know the numbers because of company
filings.
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Not all big names in tech spend such big amounts.
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The CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, apparently has
a security budget of just $224,000 a year.
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Mark Zuckerberg
We guess you knew this name was coming, and
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we can tell you that âZucksâ outspends
the rest easily.
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Heâs pretty much the face of tech and there
are not too many people who wouldnât recognize
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him.
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There are likely a few people out there who
bear a grudge against him, too, after being
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given a time-out on his platform or believing
that Facebook is somehow malign.
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Filings that Facebook made with the government
told us that in 2018 a massive $7.3 million
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was being spent on his personal security.
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This included at his home and when he leaves
the house.
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This amount works out to be about $20,000
a day to ensure Mr. Zuckerberg remains in
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one piece.
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If you add on travel costs and keeping him
secure while he moves around the globe the
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number is more like $22 million.
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We should say this means paying a team of
bodyguards, but we imagine each member is
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still on top of this list.
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Even his right-hand woman, COO Sheryl Sandberg
has personal security that costs $1.1 million.
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Now weâre going to stick with the tantalizing
topics of danger and staying safe and offer
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you these two great videos.
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Head over to âWhat You Should NOT Do If
You Are Stopped By A Copâ and âAmerican
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Cops vs Canadian Cops.â
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