Llegó la temporada navideña y con ello miles de personas en el mundo se dan a la tarea de comprar alimentos, árboles de Navidad, regalos y uno que otro lujo.

Now, if for us, the simple mortals, these expenses could make it difficult, imagine the problem that Santa Claus faces every year, who must deliver toys to each child.

That is why the British company True Luxury Travel made an investigation, based on surveys and other numbers in order to determine the exact budget that San Nicolás needs annually for its purpose.

Naturally, Santa Claus has to spend tons of money to keep his workshop in motion at full speed, even though Christmas is not held by everyone.

According to the National Federation of Retails (NRF, acronym in English), Americans will average $ 1,000 in gifts this year, and that barely represents the time and effort necessary to produce, package and send those gifts to the whole world.

But although several believe that this "magic" happens through factories and products to send products, the reality is that it happens thanks to the North Pole.😬

How many toys are needed?

According to UNICEF, there are 2.2 billion children in the world, but not everyone celebrates Christmas, which means that approximately 45 percent of the world's population commemorates the day.

Therefore, the number of children who receive gifts is about 900 million children and we know that they do not receive only one.

According to True Luxury Travel surveys, children receive on average 16 gifts each;Of course, this refers not only to toys, but to clothes, school supplies, among others, which naturally receive from "other holy", such as grandfather Santa Claus or Uncle Santa.🤫

Santa Claus's budget for this year

So, this means that Santa's workshop is producing approximately 14.4 billion toys every year, which the money averaged for each gift would amount to an approximate amount of $ 41.6 billion dollars.

But this sum only covers the cost of gifts in themselves and of course, they are not manufactured alone.

True Luxury Travel estimates that the great white beard man would need around 132,000 elves to do all the work in his workshop.

However, here a series of factors enter, including hours on a day of elves and the manufacturing rate of toys per hour, so the 132 thousand elves, it is only an estimate, but it could be many more.

Now, honestly I do not know the minimum wage per hour of an elf (although I looked for it on the Internet), but what is known is that the minimum wage in the United States varies depending on the city where you work, being $ 7.25dollars an hour the lowest (official) and up to about $ 15 in cities like Washington.

If Santa were a little hard with their elves workers, then the official minimum would be paid, that is, about $ 7.25 per hour, which represents about $ 290 dollars a week (40 hours of work), which are translated at $ 15,080 dollars year.

If we multiply this amount for the 132 thousand elves, we would discover that Santa Claus spends about $ 1.9 billion a year only in elf labor.

But in addition to these costs, there are others that must be added, for example, the payment of gas and electricity.

True Luxury Travel assumes that Santa's workshop, located in the North Pole, has about 1.2 million square feet, so it could disburse $ 1.34 per square foot of electricity plus 18 cents of natural gas per square foot.

That is equivalent to another $ 1.6 billion in electricity and $ 2.2 million in gas, so we would add to the previous amounts $ 1.8 billion dollars.

As if that were not enough, the company assumes that Santa must pay the rental costs of the place, which would add $ 1.2 million dollars a year, although it could be a price below the market.

But ... Who carries the gifts?We all know that reindeer do that difficult task, so it is estimated that the estimated cost of having each one is about $ 3,876, the same cost as a horse.If we multiply it by the eight reindeers, we would be talking about this cost from rising to $ 31,008 a year.

Finally, we must assume that Santa Claus's sled is so expensive to maintain as a luxury car, so the great Santa must be disbursing at least $ 1,780 a year so that everything works without problems.

Let's add everything: Santa Claus spends more than $ 45.3 million dollars a year so that all children have a merry Christmas.

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