The True Cost of Christmas (For Father Christmas)

£ THE TRUE COST OF CHRISTMAS FOR FATHER CHRISTMAS Worried about how much Christmas is going to cost this year? Well, just imagine how Jolly Old St Nick is feeling! We E go behind the scenes to steal a glance at the Lapland Inc. balance sheet. £ Outgoings Incoming Reindeer Feed Image rights £2,024 (9 Reindeer x food per year) x cost of food Cristiano Ronaldo has world's most £370.4M lucrative image rights deal & 107m Facebook fans. There are 2bn Christians. So, Father Christmas' image rights are Reindeer Health worth 20x more than Ronaldo's £549 (Vaccinations + worming tablets + penicillin) x9 reindeer Sells his stockpile of cookies & milk Sleigh Maintenance £661 £21.2M Based on Abogo.cnt.org estimates 25% of children leave 2 cookies & % pint of milk deduct Elf & Clauses' daily consumption sell leftovers at Tesco RRP Sleigh Insurance Based on annual premium for racing car driver £1,605 Recycles Christmas Lists £198,000 (One A4 Xmas list per child x weight of A4 paper) x recycling price per tonne of paper Elf Wages £65M Annual average manufacturing salary in Lapland x 3,000 elves Lapland Winter Tourism £954M Winter profit per tourist x number of tourists Nov-Jan Elf Pensions / Insurance £13.7M Worth additional 21% of overall salary Studding his Reindeer £135.7M Champion racehorse annual stud profit x 9 reindeer Cost of Toy Manufacture £9.83BN (EU average Xmas spend per child x worldwide Christian kids u14) + 8 to change RRP into production cost Air BnB his spare rooms Lapland annual average cost of basic living (Average Lapland Airbnb price per night x 353 days per year) x [Finnish average people per house x (Father Christmas' Grotto m2 + Average Finnish domicile m2)] £416,061 £13,800 (Average Finnish rent + basic groceries + utilities) x 12 months Total incomings per year £1,482,214,356 Mrs Claus (CEO of Lapland Inc.) £65,740 Average salary for Finnish CEO Total outgoings per year £9,904,006,605 Shortfall per year £8,421,792,249 PER YEAR Outgoings £9,904,006,605 Shortfall £8,421,792,249 Incomings £1,482,214,356 HOW DOES SANTA SURVIVE? Festive magic! SOURCE DATA Outgoings www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Finland www.helsinkibusinesshub.fi/fact/facts-about-helsinki/setting-up-a-business/costs-for-businesses/ expert market Incomings www.wrap.org.uk/content/paper-2 ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-datasets/-/TOUR_OCC_ARM Full list of sources can be found at www.expertmarket.co.uk/santa