What Santa’s Job Pays

Posted by | December 23, 2011 21:17 | Filed under: Top Stories


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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Santa’s job should pay $133,000 a year.

Manufacturing executive, sleigh pilot, labor negotiator, compulsive list checker and fulfiller of children’s dreams, Santa Claus has no peers when it comes to juggling diverse duties at his North Pole headquarters.

The man who sees you when you’re sleeping and knows when you’re awake should be earning a well-deserved six figures, according to our analysis of wage data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We took a look at the tasks for which Santa is best known and calculated what it would cost to hire others to accomplish them.

This year, the value of Old St. Nick’s work is $132,948.

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