# How much money did the fictional characters in American Psycho make

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**Created:** [September 30, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-did-the-fictional-characters-in-american-psycho-make/733006 "2015-09-30T02:12:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-did-the-fictional-characters-in-american-psycho-make/733006/1 "2015-09-30T02:12:23Z")

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Considering their education, what they did (VPs at a major financial firm in NYC) in the mid/late 80s how much money would they have made?

400k a year?

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**Author:** ![CatastrophicFailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@CatastrophicFailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatastrophicFailure)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-did-the-fictional-characters-in-american-psycho-make/733006/2 "2015-09-30T02:58:25Z")

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[In the book it’s mentioned they make around 180k-190k per year.](https://books.google.com/books?id=Gd_mGRCwW1QC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=%22i+pull+in+a+hundred+eighty+thou+a+year%22&source=bl&ots=QYpPxo5vA8&sig=TJaOhAhGh-3NcvKHhkKTCkkrm6Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAmoVChMI8-zInOCdyAIVFjGICh3zGApo#v=onepage&q=%22i%20pull%20in%20a%20hundred%20eighty%20thou%20a%20year%22&f=false)

That would be about 350-400k in today’s dollars.

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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-did-the-fictional-characters-in-american-psycho-make/733006/3 "2015-09-30T03:02:48Z")

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That was quick and easy, thanks