Mad Men. Mad money. * Spoilers*

I have just finished watching seasons 1 through 5 on Netflix and I thought it would be fun to look at how much infaltion has affected the value of money over the years. I know the season starts around 1960 and has progressed to the late sixties. To make the calculations easy I used the Bureau of Labor Statistic's web site and used the the year 1965. I also rounded up or down accordingly.

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Dan (Dick) gave his brother $5000.00 to get lost. Today that would be around 37 grand.

Campbell and Price had to each come up with $50,000.00 to be Jr partners. Today that would be around $370,000.

Price embezzeled $8000.00. Today that would be 59 grand.

Harry gave Paul $500.00 to go out to Cali. Today that is about $3700.00

Peggy goes to work for Chaough for $140,500.00

The Jag that Don test drives with Joan would be worth 41.5K

A 6 million dollar account would bring in 44.4 million.