--- title: "Digits: Instant Pots, a really expensive mile, and more news numbers - The Hustle" description: "Plus: China’s box office, luxury home sales, and a workforce downtrend." image: https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/1746591690-HS-News-Brief_2023-03-13T010220.349Z.webp --- # Digits: Instant Pots, a really expensive mile, and more news numbers ![Jacob Cohen](https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png?width=48&height=48&name=IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png) [Jacob Cohen](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/author/jacob-cohen) [Jacob Cohen Twitter profile ](https://twitter.com/ImJacobCohen) Published: March 13, 2023 Updated: October 11, 2023 **1) **Trending down: The number of executive administrative assistants in the US. Between 2000 and 2021, the count [**dropped 63%**](https://www.wsj.com/articles/executives-lose-a-coveted-status-symboltheir-assistants-f161f6c9?mod=wsjhp_columnists_pos1) from 1.37m to 508k. By 2031, the number is expected to drop another 20% to 404.4k. ![Digits: Instant Pots, a really expensive mile, and more news numbers](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hs-fs/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/1746591690-HS-News-Brief_2023-03-13T010220.349Z.webp?width=595&height=400&name=1746591690-HS-News-Brief_2023-03-13T010220.349Z.webp) **2) **The price tag on New York City’s [**1.5-mile**](https://gothamist.com/news/cost-of-second-ave-subway-extension-to-east-harlem-balloons-to-77b) Second Avenue Subway extension to East Harlem is now expected to be $7.7B, up $800m from previous estimates, making it one of the most expensive per-mile railroad expansions in human history. **3)** So far, the biggest movie of 2023 is 71-year-old Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou’s *Full River Red*, with the blockbuster [**raking in $670.3m**](https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Man-Jiang-Hong-(2023-China)#tab=summary) so far in China. This week, it’s coming to [150 theaters](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/filmart-zhang-yimou-full-river-red-us-release-1235346572/) in the US and Canada. **4) **It’s rough out there. Per estimates from Redfin, US sales of luxury homes in the three months ending Jan. 31 were [**down 44.6% YoY**](https://investors.redfin.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/885/luxury-home-purchases-sink-a-record-45-to-the), and non-luxury sales were down 37.5%. In Miami, luxury sales dropped 68.7%. **5) **Instant Pot’s pop: Sales of the kitchen gadget reached a steaming-hot [**$758m in 2020**](https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-instant-pot-sales-plunge-its-maker-looks-for-another-hit-d17cc0d4?mod=hp_lead_pos6), but cooled 50% to $344m in 2022. Instant Brands now has ~1.9k+ employees after cutting 15% of its staff. 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