If you are something like me, you can't watch TV -Show without wondering how much money the main characters earn. This question is naturally followed by asking how much their apartment costs, how much their parents must finance their lifestyle and whether any of this is real, especially with emissions that are happening in New York or Los Angeles.

Of all the main sitcoms in the past 30 years, "how I met your mother" can be one of the least realistic. At least "friends" explained that A luxurious apartment of Monica She was controlled by rent and illegal Subleta from her grandmother, but "Himim" never explains how Ted and Marshall (the second of whom is still a student for the first two seasons) can afford that beautiful apartment in the upper west. Combine this with Barney's career stupidity (he makes "16 Craploads" a year that does anything basically) and the background of Robin's teenage population, and it is clear that "Himim" does not want to think seriously about the finances of the characters.

This "Don't Think About It" approach is the brightest with Lily's financial situation in Season 2. For the first six episodes, she is new -Single forced to find a new home in Cuyork with kindergarten teacher salaries and tens of thousands of dollars in credit card. This had to be stressful, but the show never seriously deals with what it is going on. The show jokes at one point that Marshall is a "settler" in his relationship with Lily, but Lily's marriage to him is the only thing that saves her from total financial ruin.

The only character whose financial situation is slightly based is Ted Mosbi (Oshchos Radnor). We can understand why Ted can afford that apartment because he actually has a solid job in the pilot. However, exactly how much income takes place at home every season as an architect, and is his lifestyle throughout the play really checks?

In Season 1, Ted is a graduate architect and According to a zucchinatorThat will probably make him earn from $ 42,000 (25th percent) to $ 104,000 (75th percent). My bet will be at least 80,000 USD in Season 1 (adapted for inflation), which is enough to enjoy getting into the bar every night in the mid-2000s.

One thing that helps Ted is that he comes from what looks like a middle -class family, the one who probably helped in the situation with his student loan. Habits of spending Ted's entertainment during the early seasons, not to mention that it buys a new car, despite living in the least car area throughout the nation, it certainly implies that this is not a man prominent for money.

In Season 2, Ted is promoted to an older position in his architecture firm, promotion that comes after its unique design of buildings independently saves the firm from losing a large client. To date, Ted is certainly approaching (or past) on the salary mark with six figures. Is not Don draper money Or whatever, but Ted is still going well.

Season 3 and 4 are where things become tricky, because during this period, the show is disinterested in the work of Ted or how it affects the rest of his life. "Himim" ceases to explore the role of Ted as a boss in his firm, and the next big story of the Ted architect includes him to go on a project for the Goliath National Bank. This leads to Ted to leave the job (well, to release) and pass the back half of the season 4 trying to build its own land company up.

As with Lily in Season 2, the short Ted self -employment period should Get him to wake up in the middle of the night with a strong cold sweating, but the ordinary viewer can easily see a few episodes of 4 late seasons 4, without noticing that Ted's career is in the flap. By the end of the season 4, Ted's career as an architect seems to be over. Fortunately, thanks to his former fiancé Stella, who left him on the altar of a guy with profitable ties, Ted's career headed in an exciting new direction in Season 5.

Season 5 sees that Ted is becoming an additional professor at Columbia University. Similar to the architects, the professor is one of those jobs that varies wildly in salary, so it is once again impossible to say with certainty what Ted makes at this point. However, based on the way Ted talks about his new job, it seems that its main point for sale is its stability than its salary. Ted probably makes 80k-90k $ up to this moment; Of course, it's a good salary, but not what season 2 Ted would predict for himself.

In Season 6, Ted gets his big break: he is hired to build a skyscraper for the Goliath National Bank. Once again, it is not at all clear how much Ted paid for this (like Architects will tell youIt depends on many factors on which the show never elaborates on), but it certainly was nothing. It is a big, long -standing project that costs the company several hundred million dollars. Until Season 7, Ted makes at least six figures out of his work only on the GNB building, as long as he is still teaching in Colombia.

What is particularly impressive is that, at the age of 33, Ted becomes the youngest architect to design a large skyscraper in Cuyork. To Season 7, Ted is rich (or at least, a lot comfortable) and still has an unprecedented, promising career in architecture before him. In fact, everyone in the main gang "Himim" ends with a career that may be a little bit Also It is good to be true-just and Lily goes from teacher teacher to a successful high-class art consultant in the 8-but rise in Ted is the most impressive. His work may not be as shining as Barney argues with the Fed or Robin to become a great world TV journalist, but he is still good.

Fans can debate How happy the end of the Loveback life of Ted wasbut the story of Ted's career ended on a great high note