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.
Getty ImagesWe 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.
Getty ImagesThe accounts, for the lawyer Miranda Hobbes, they went back then and would go back today too. And judging by the character's nature, at a certain point he decides to move to the bigger one affordable Brooklyn, that's to be expected. In 1998, with his job position, he would have earned approximately $89,818.45 dollarsfacing expenses of approximately $38,438.18, including the gym and coffee with friends, among the highest cost items in her family budget. Today his salary would be approximately $171,000 with an amount of expenses of approximately $73,180.16. Feasible yesterday as today for a very specific reason: the lack of interest in luxury brands.
Samantha Jones: Cocktails for 6k a year

Samantha Jones, played by Kim Cattrall, in an episode of the third season.
Getty ImagesSamantha Jones' life has always been stellar, as that of a career New York PR expert deserves to be. If in 1998 her life of expensive clothes and evenings in trendy clubs and restaurants would have cost her approximately $38,438.18 at the front of a salary of approximately $55,151.68carrying her entire lifestyle into 2024 would see her face expenses totaling $73,180.16 in reference to revenue of $105,000. If we slip in a new Birkins and an estimate of around $6,240 in cocktails alone, the good life of that time could become just a memory.
Charlotte York: can you save money?

Charlotte York, played by Kristin Davis, in an episode of the third season.
Getty ImagesConsidered the Princess of Park Avenuegallery owner with a splendid apartment of a typical New York upper class, the sweet one Charlotte York would have a rude awakening in 2024. Today, in fact, it would spend approx $71,661.20 for his model life Ralph Lauren, with a salary of $102,000. The difference with 1998 is small: at the time in fact he would have earned approximately $53,575.92 spending 37,640.34. It's difficult to play princesses, yesterday as today.
Source: Vanity Fair

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