Anyone who has seen Sex and The Cityespecially years after the release of the series broadcast for the first time by HBO in 1998, you will have wondered how much the four protagonists earned to be able to have that certain standard of living.
Apartments in the heart of Manhattan, nights in clubs and restaurants and, of course, a slew of Manolo Blahnik, baguette by Fendi and many other super designer garments and accessories which have gone down in history. Sex and the City it revolutionized the world of series and it did so also thanks to fashion and the idea of a lifestyle that we often tried to imagine in the contemporary world. In fact, we have asked ourselves numerous times, and perhaps you have too, not only how it was possible to live like this in the nineties, but how they could do it today, in 2024.
26 years later one study made by the online casino company Nieuwe-Casinosin collaboration with Expatistan, Numbeo and Glassdoor, has collected a series of data regarding expenses That Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte they would have claimed annually to compare them to cost of living today. Including restaurants, taxis, homes in the center, and leaving shopping, the backbone of the series, in the extras, we reveal what this study found for each of the girls and how much it would cost to live the same life.
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Carrie Bradshaw: 4-figure wardrobe
Carrie Bradshaw, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, in an episode of the third series.
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We have often heard about Carrie’s finances in the series. The most precarious of the group, the freelancer who at one point was paid $4.50 a word by Vogue (unleashing the ironies of his real counterparts who don’t even dare to dream of certain figures), spent approximately $38,568.99 in 1998. Considering an average of at least three dinners out a week, the cost of cigarettes, and the rent on the house (before purchasing it at the end of the fourth series), his annual income would have been approximately $49,373.88. Same lifestyle today, in 2024, it would cost a whopping $73,429.20at the front of a salary of approximately $94,000. The research also revealed that affording a wardrobe like his, with this income, would be truly impossible today and, sorry for the incoming trauma, it would have been at the time too. Especially if you think that, in the fourth series, Carrie spends around $40,000 in a year on shoes alone.
Miranda Hobbes: It can be done
Miranda Hobbes, played by Cynthia Nixon, in an episode of the third season.
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