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I read yesterday, somewhere—I don’t remember where—an off-hand comment that an innkeeper makes about $45,000 a year. Then today, Annie Barrett of EW’s Popwatch blog joked about TV characters’ pathetic salaries, “I would have guessed that Lorelai Gilmore made, like, a grand per annum as an innkeeper.”

On the other hand, to keep the staff she does, she has to charge her clients way more than she could afford herself. And she can take a vacation. (Some innkeepers can’t, not without closing up the inn in the meantime.)

And because she’s the owner, she doesn’t pay herself at a fixed rate. If there’s any windfall, she gets to keep it.

And being the owner of a small business, she’s basically responsible for marketing. This is something we weren’t let in on in the story. But depending on how well she markets her inn, she could make a lot of money by keeping the place filled with rich visitors in expensive rooms. So it makes sense that the wildly successful Christiane Amanpour would eventually find her way to the Dragonfly.

What do you think? How much does Lorelai make?

-TimK