12.24.2009
Cost of Twelve Days of Christmas
The eight milking maids received an automatic minimum wage increase, to $7.25 an hour. Even so, they totaled a mere $58, up $5.60 from last year. The eight ladies dancing fared far better, with a 15 percent raise, to $5,473 for each performance based on figures from the Philadelphia modern dance company, Philadanco.
But other performers were not as fortunate, reflecting a jobless rate that doubled this year after hovering around 5 percent for much of the decade, Mr. Dunigan said. Pay was flat for the 12 drummers drumming, at $2,475, 11 pipers piping, at $2,284, and 10 lords-a-leaping, at $4,414.
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I was just wondering yesterday what the cost for the lords a'leaping would be if you had to use actual lords. If you found the most obscure lords in middle of nowhere, England, how much would you have to pay them to leap around?
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