"The financial reports of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) show 144 officials were paid a share of more than £2m ahead of the authority winding down in 2014.
Exit payments, to staff on permanent contracts, cost £2.8m in 2012-13, the Annual Report and Accounts said.
Chief executive Dennis Hone was paid £80,000 with £373,000 for his pension.
An ODA spokesman said hiring the best people required many to give up secure long-term jobs elsewhere."
Jeez. If most people were hired on fixed-term contracts, they wouldn't get a penny at the end. As per ruddy usual in modern British business, it's one law for the rich...