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Many have wondered what Santa does and how he does it for . Researchers have an answer to these age-old questions. An insurance company has calculated a figure of $139,924 for Santa's salary for 2014. This is 1.5 per cent more than last year. It is also in with low pay people around the world are getting. Researchers created a of the different jobs Santa performs throughout the year and created a job . They then found the total spent on each to get the final figure for Santa's salary.

The researchers found that Santa is -skilled. He has to be a of all trades. His skills include handling, gift wrapping, chimney cleaning and map . Most of his salary comes from managing his toy factory. It is estimated that he spends 2,912 hours a year organizing his and making sure toys are of the right . He gets $40.09 an hour for this. His highest hourly is for being a sleigh pilot and delivering . This is similar to the salaries of airline . Researchers believe a pilot earns $62.31 an hour.

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