According to PNC Bank, the answer this year is $45,523, up 10.5% from 2021. If you were to buy the items over and over each day like the song suggests, that’s 364 total gifts, and over $197,000.
Here’s a breakdown of how much it would cost to buy or hire all 12 things
- Twelve drummers drumming, $3,267 to hire them.
- Eleven pipers piping , $3,021.
- Ten lords-a-leaping, $13,980. It’s the most expensive gift on the list. It’s based on how much it would cost to hire ten dancers from the Philadelphia ballet.
- Nine ladies dancing , $8,308. Based on hiring nine women from a modern dance company in Philly.
- Eight maids-a-milking, $58. Weird gift, but the cheapest on the list. That’s eight women milking cows for an hour at the federal minimum wage of $7.25.
- Seven swans-a-swimming, $13,125.
- Six geese-a-laying, $720.
- Five gold rings, $1,245, up 39%. That’s a bigger jump than anything else on the list. It’s for five 14-carat gold rings according to a national jewelry chain.
- Four calling birds, $600.
- Three French hens, $319.
- Two turtle doves, $600.
- And a partridge in a pear tree, $280. The partridge costs the same as last year. But fertilizer prices are up, so pear trees have jumped 26%.
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