The site I used couldn’t even find a slum apartment for Penny to sleep in!
With some loose estimations assuming she flubs the numbers on some tips for tax purposes, I put Penny at pulling in about $1,800 a month.
While she’s now married and sharing an apartment with Leonard, Penny’s early situation on The Big Bang Theory was not at all realistic on a financial front.
Don’t get me wrong, a server can do quite well working at The Cheesecake Factory, but I’m not quite sure you can do Pasadena-well with those tips.