{"id":11892,"date":"2014-12-24T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11892"},"modified":"2014-12-24T08:14:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T13:14:22","slug":"what-is-santas-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/what-is-santas-value\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Santa\u2019s Value?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/122414_1309_WhatIsSanta1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Suzanne McGee wrote about research into how much society should value Santa:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Insure.com looked at all the jobs that Santa does and added up how much he would earn if he took those skills to other jobs.<\/li>\n<li>Overall it came out to $139,924 this year.<\/li>\n<li>This is mostly due to his prowess as &#8220;an industrial engineer&#8221; managing a toy factory in the North Pole.<\/li>\n<li>His value includes 182.5 hours a year spent in labour negotiations with the elves.<\/li>\n<li>He also makes some pocket money from all the personal guest appearances he makes when he visits malls.<\/li>\n<li>The figure does not, however, include hazard pay for having to spend so much time in the North Pole.<\/li>\n<li>Santa will be pleased that he&#8217;s entitled to a raise though. Last year the same work was worth $2,000 less.<\/li>\n<li>According to (real) surveys about 29% of people think that Santa should be paid $1 for every child, meaning he should be paid around $1.8 billion.<\/li>\n<li>Another 29% of survey respondents thought he should be paid nothing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the study, its methodology, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefiscaltimes.com\/Columns\/2014\/12\/09\/What-s-Santa-Claus-Worth-Six-Figures-Least\">here<\/a>. And read our own analysis of how much it would cost to make Santa&#8217;s presents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2013\/how-much-would-it-cost-to-make-santas-presents\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefiscaltimes.com\/Columns\/2014\/12\/09\/What-s-Santa-Claus-Worth-Six-Figures-Least\">Fiscal Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suzanne McGee wrote about research into how much society should value Santa: Insure.com looked at all the jobs that Santa does and added up how much he would earn if he took those skills to other jobs. Overall it came out to $139,924 this year. This is mostly due to his prowess as &#8220;an industrial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/122414_1309_WhatIsSanta1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11896,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892\/revisions\/11896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}