What things cost · compared
A hair and makeup artist in Lombardia against Toscana
A hair and makeup artist in Lombardia and one in Toscana advertise the same median starting price, EUR 250, across 884 and 502 advertised bands gathered 2026-08-06. These are advertised starting prices, not transacted fees, and the two regions do not necessarily advertise the same thing.
An entry price is whatever a business decided to put at the bottom of its listing, and that is not a fixed quantity of work. A hair and makeup artist advertising from €250 may be offering four hours where one advertising from €250 is offering ten, or the reverse. The gap below is a gap between advertised entry points, which is a real and checkable thing, and it is not a like-for-like price for the same service.
- Lombardia
- €250median, 884 bands from 884 businesses
- Toscana
- €250median, 502 bands from 502 businesses
- The gap
- nonethe two medians are identical
Side by side
| Statistic | Lombardia | Toscana | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median advertised | €250 | €250 | the middle advertised starting price |
| A quarter below | €160 | €200 | the 25th percentile |
| A quarter above | €300 | €300 | the 75th percentile |
| Middle-half spread | €140 (0.56) | €100 (0.40) | interquartile range, and that range over the median |
| Observations | 884 | 502 | both above the 40 required |
| Businesses | 884 | 502 | distinct firms behind those bands |
| Distinct figures | 52 | 34 | how many different numbers the whole sample takes |
| On a round hundred | 46% | 50% | evidence these are advertised, not transacted |
Both distributions
| Advertised from | Lombardia | Toscana |
|---|---|---|
| €100 to €250 | 49% | 42% |
| €250 to €500 | 46% | 54% |
| €500 to €750 | 4% | 3% |
| €750 to €1 000 | <1% | <1% |
| €1 500 to €1 750 | <1% | — |
| €3 000 to €3 250 | <1% | — |
| €8 000 to €8 250 | <1% | — |
| €15 000 to €15 250 | — | <1% |
| €30 000 to €30 250 | — | <1% |
| €45 000 to €45 250 | <1% | — |
Each column is the share of that region's own sample, not a count, because the two samples are different sizes and a count would compare how many businesses advertise rather than what they advertise. Bars are scaled to the tallest share on the page. The spread figures in the table above say the same thing numerically: Toscana is the tighter market of the two.
How this was gathered
1386 bands from 1386 businesses.
Advertised price bands published by suppliers on matrimonio.com, a public Italian wedding directory, read on 2026-08-06. These are starting prices a business chose to advertise, not fees anybody was charged, and no individual listing is reproduced here.
Both sides clear 40 observations, which is the floor this site publishes a median at. A comparison is generated only where all three hold: the category is one of the 3 with the largest national sample (photographers, bands, hair and makeup artists); both regions are among the 8 with the most observations (Lombardia, Sicilia, Campania, Toscana, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, Puglia, Piemonte); and both sides clear 40 observations for that category. Nothing was chosen by hand, and the ceiling is 3 × 28 = 84 pages.
No supplier is named here. Both distributions are histograms over aggregates, so the shape behind each median is checkable without reproducing anybody else's listing.
Each side on its own: hair and makeup artists in Lombardia · hair and makeup artists in Toscana. Every category in each region: Lombardia · Toscana. Machine-readable: /api/v1/costs. Gathered 2026-08-06.