According to insure.com, Santa Claus would make $139,924 this year. This is up 1.5 percent from last year.
The insurance website used Labor Department wage and hour data to calculate its estimate. Most of Santa’s salary comes from managing the North Pole toy factory and piloting the sleigh, which the survey determined would earn him the salaries of an industrial engineer and a pilot, respectively.
They also commissioned a survey to see how much people think Santa should make. A total of 29 percent say $1.8 billion, or $1 for each child on the planet under the age of 15. Another 29 percent said he should work for free, and the rest split the difference.
The survey polled 895 adults who said Santa visits their homes.
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