I thought the running gag was that Chandler never said what he did, and none of the other friends knew what he did either. He just had some unspecified white-collar job.
Right, fine. So let's run some different scenarios.
1) 50/50. That means Joey, the unemployed actor, was paying $3,000/mo in rent. When I was a practicing CPA, we rented a place that was $975/mo and that damn near killed us. So, I'm not seeing $3k a month for an unemployed actor.
2) Chandler was paying a vast majority of the rent. Let's say he was paying 75/25. That STILL means, at 40% for housing, Joey would be making $45k a year. I don't know a whole lot of actors here, but I bet you Foghorn's left nut, the off-off-off Broadway actors who work a week a month ain't making $45k.
3) Chandler is inexplicably paying the entire rent. That means Chandler is making $190k a year and is a fucking moron, not to mention a giant pushover. I don't remember all the Friends episodes at this point, but I remember enough about Chandler's work scenes to know he wasn't pulling in almost $200k a year.
And let's go back to Monica and Rachel. You're trying to tell me that a chef inherits an apartment in West Village (a WILDLY desirable section of it, no less) that would be worth about $1.6m or that would rent out for $6,000/mo and
instead of renting it out, living in Brooklyn or Queens for free from the proceeds and pocketing enough money to feed all 6 friends' nasty coffee habit, she decides to
live in it with her barely employed hot friend where they can scrape by and watch ugly naked people across the street on their covered balcony.
Call me, Jennifer.
