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People have for years what Santa does and how he it for free. Researchers have now up with an answer to these age-old questions. The insurance company insure.com has a hypothetical figure of $139,924 for Santa's efforts this year. This is a 1.5 per cent increase on last year, which is in keeping with austerity measures by most people around the world. The figure is roughly twice the amount that caregivers in the USA would . Researchers at insure.com a list of the various jobs Santa throughout the year to a job description. They then the total time spent on each task to get the final figure for Santa's annual salary.

The researchers that Santa is indeed a multi-skilled worker, who pretty much to be a jack of all trades. Among his skills reindeer handling, gift wrapping, chimney expert and map reader. The vast majority of his salary, however, from managing his toy factory. It is estimated the bearded one 2,912 hours a year his elves and sure toys for the world's children are of the right quality. He gets the standard $40.09 an hour for this. His highest hourly rate is for the ten hours he spends a sleigh pilot and delivering presents. Comparisons were with airline pilots and researchers reckoned a sleigh pilot would $62.31 an hour.

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