Have you ever wondered how much it would cost to run Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory in real life? Well, I have and the people at Advanced Tech Services crunched the numbers.

The estimate comes to a huge $224.6 million per year, which seems like a fortune. Until you consider that it costs more than that to run the L.A. Dodgers.

Here's how some of that breaks down:

  • The Oompa Loompas' salaries would be roughly $73.4 million per year, based on the average salary of a chocolate worker in the U.S., which is about $50K.
  • Oompa Loompa healthcare would cost $8.1 million.
  • The chocolate river would cost about $32.7 million or $47.1 million with organic chocolate.
  • The glass elevator would be more expensive, in the neighborhood of $109 million.
  • Yearly energy costs would be $2 million.

The overall company would be worth around $21.5 billion, which also seems high, but it's almost exactly what the Cadbury chocolate company is worth. Kraft Foods acquired it for $19 billion in 2010, and with inflation the total company valuation is $21.49 billion.

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