How Much Would Ned and Olive Make in Real Life?
CNN Living puts a list of TV Characters together and sums up how much they make if they were actual, living persons. Ned and Olive are in this list:
- Ned, “Pushing Daisies” — Head pie maker, general manager
Real-life median salary: $21,241, according CBSalary.com.
Ned (Lee Pace) probably makes a little more than this as the owner of his restaurant, which is near broke. To pad his pockets in the meantime, Ned helps a private investigator bring murder victims back from the dead to gather details to solve their murders, collecting reward money in the end. That should be enough to buy pie ingredients for a lifetime.
- Olive Snook, “Pushing Daisies” — Waitress
Real-life median salary: $15,850, according to the BLS.
Presumably Olive (Kristin Chenowith) doesn’t rake in much additional money from tips from her services at The Pie Hole, the financially-failing restaurant where she works. Something tells us she’s not in it for the money — she just wants to be near Ned, head pie maker and apple of her eye.
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