NEW YORK, Dec 17 — Christmas is just around the corner but you may struggle to spot a Santa spreading joy in the United States this holiday season.
”There’s a tremendous shortage of Santa Claus entertainers,” Mitch Allen, founder of Texas-based rental agency Hire Santa, told AFP. The supply slump is despite many organisations having decided to cancel activities, fearful of the highly transmissible Omicron variant that has once again put the world’s health systems on high alert.
In a good year, a Santa Claus can earn between US$6,000 and US$10,000 over the course of the early November to Christmas Eve season, said Allen.But the pandemic has meant fewer candidates are aspiring to be Old Saint Nick, according to the Professional Santa Claus School in Denver.
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