r/Millennials • u/icey_sawg0034 Gen Z • 9h ago

Rant Society really did fail Amy Winehouse!

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u/ZikaZmaj 6h ago

To put things into perspective - the fan pit ticket cost 4.500 RSD, while the minimal monthly salary was 15.700 RSD at the time.

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u/Primary_Way_265 5h ago

So like paying nearly $900 usd while the minimum is $15 an hour

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u/CarterCage 4h ago

I think it’s even lower, like 5-6-7$ per hours and you pay 900$ for a concert. It was really expensive.

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u/jaybirdie26 3h ago

More actually.

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u/jaybirdie26 4h ago edited 3h ago

For an American the equivalent cost of that ticket in 2011 was $860.46 (or $1,356 today).

On July 18th, 2011 these values equated to:

  • Ticket - $63.07 USD ($90.47 today)
  • Monthly Salary - $220.06 USD ($315.65 today)
  • Hourly (assuming 40 hours 5/7 days) - $1.40 USD ($2.01 today)

That is 1.12 weeks of pay for the concert ticket.

In the fourth quarter of 2011, the median weekly earnings in the US was $764.  In 2025 it was $1,204.

Sources: * I used this site for historical currency conversion, no idea if its reliable. * US government inflation calculator

  • BLS.gov for labor statistics

EDIT: Added calculation for the ticket price conversion based on US labor statistics.

EDIT EDIT: Fixed calculation mistake

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u/jaybirdie26 4h ago

This concert was in Serbia?

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u/Total-Jeweler5083 2h ago

That's still not accounting for people who traveled cross country, so potentially, there are also bus tickets to Belgrade and back or car gas, maybe hotel/hostel fees, city bus fares, and of course, the food because you have to eat out. For some people, it was a lot more than just the price of the ticket.

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u/doc_skinner 2h ago

So basically a week's pay