True Cost of “The Twelve Days”
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For those of you performing the perenial favorite “The Twelve Days of Christmas” for your 2007 Christmas concerts, it might be of interest to you to discover the true cost of being a “true love” at Christmastime:
- One Partridge in a Pear Tree: $164.99
- Two Turtle Doves: $40.00
- Three French Hens: $45.00
- Four Calling Birds: $599.96
- Five Gold Rings: $395.00
- Six Geese-a-Laying: $360.00
- Seven Swans-a-Swimming: $4,200.00
- Eight Maids-a-Milking: $46.80
- Nine Ladies Dancing: $4,759.19
- 10 Lords-a-Leaping: $4,285.06
- 11 Pipers Piping: $2,213.40
- 12 Drummers Drumming: $2,397.85
Total cost of being a ‘true love’ at Christmastime: $19,507.25
It is interesting to note that the dancers, though there are less of them, garnered a higher wage than the musicians. How did that happen? Do they have a better union?
This information was garnered from a price index study by PNC. You can read the press release here.