What things cost · compared
A hair and makeup artist in Puglia against Sicilia
A hair and makeup artist in Puglia advertises a median EUR 260 against EUR 250 in Sicilia, 4% higher, across 515 and 645 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 €260 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.
- Puglia
- €260median, 515 bands from 514 businesses
- Sicilia
- €250median, 645 bands from 645 businesses
- The gap
- 4%€10, Puglia the dearer
Side by side
| Statistic | Puglia | Sicilia | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median advertised | €260 | €250 | the middle advertised starting price |
| A quarter below | €200 | €200 | the 25th percentile |
| A quarter above | €350 | €350 | the 75th percentile |
| Middle-half spread | €150 (0.58) | €150 (0.60) | interquartile range, and that range over the median |
| Observations | 515 | 645 | both above the 40 required |
| Businesses | 514 | 645 | distinct firms behind those bands |
| Distinct figures | 37 | 36 | how many different numbers the whole sample takes |
| On a round hundred | 50% | 48% | evidence these are advertised, not transacted |
Both distributions
| Advertised from | Puglia | Sicilia |
|---|---|---|
| €100 to €250 | 30% | 37% |
| €250 to €500 | 67% | 58% |
| €500 to €750 | 2% | 4% |
| €1 000 to €1 250 | 1% | none |
| €15 000 to €15 250 | <1% | none |
| €20 000 to €20 250 | <1% | <1% |
| €30 000 to €30 250 | none | <1% |
| €50 000 to €50 250 | none | <1% |
| €55 000 to €55 250 | none | <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: Puglia is the tighter market of the two.
How this was gathered
1160 bands from 1159 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 four 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); both sides clear 40 observations for that category; and the two medians differ, because a page comparing two identical figures answers its own headline with "none". Nothing was chosen by hand: the ceiling is 3 × 28 = 84 pages, and the fourth rule holds it at 59.
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.
Two markets, advertised. A plan is one wedding in one of them: a date, a guest count and a property, every line with its basis. The box opens on Puglia; replace the word and it composes in Sicilia.
Compose your weddingEach side on its own: hair and makeup artists in Puglia · hair and makeup artists in Sicilia. Every category in each region: Puglia · Sicilia. Machine-readable: /api/v1/costs. Gathered 2026-08-06.