How much money do you make per week?

[Beancounter]

While I agree it is gauche to ask someone how much he makes I think the OP may be thinking that escorting is a very profitable business and I would argue that a very small fraction of escorts make anywhere near a living salary. From a client's viewpoint $250-$300 can be a substantial amount of money for an hour's worth of pleasure. From an escort's point of view that is probably the minimum needed to make ends meet. To put things into perspective I thought I would offer the following and very simplified accounting example to help explain my thoughts on the matter. For those accountants of you out there this will bring back days of your managerial/cost accounting classes. For the rest of you....well.....this will be boring as shit but it will go to prove that only the most successful of full-time escorts are making a good living. I will be using the Equation Method as an example instead of the Unit Contribution Method. Both methods will yield the same results but the Equation Method is easier to follow. With that in mind here goes.......

 

Example: An escort wants to book his services to various clients during the month of June. The escort charges $250 per hour. He estimates that for each booking his variable expenses are $50 (supplies, transportation, etc.). In addition to his variable expenses he wants to recoup his monthly fixed costs (rent/mortgage, insurance, phone, utilities, etc.). He estimates that his fixed expenses total $4,000) per month. How many appointments will the escort need to book in order to break even?

 

Solution using the Equation Method: Appointments = Variable Expenses + Fixed Expenses + Net Income

 

Let X = # of monthly appointments to be booked to break even

Hourly Appointment Charge = $250.00

Variable Expenses - $50 per appointment

Fixed Expense - $4,000 per month

Net Income - $0 (because this is a breakeven analysis)

 

$250X = $50X + $4,000 + $0.00

$200X = $4,000

X = 20 appointments at $250 per hour to break even.

 

What I'm trying to demonstrate with this example is that for a full-time escort to be very financially successful the escort must book a very large number of appointments just to break even. In this example the escort will need to book 20 one-hour appointments just to breakeven. Rerunning the equation to include a net income of $4,000 the escort will have to book 40 one-hour appointments. Additionally, if you factor in travel and hotel costs for escorts that routinely travel the country and add them to the escorts fixed and recurring costs of maintaining his home base then it becomes evident to me that the vast majority of escorts aren't multi-millionaires, not even close. I would hazard to guess that most aren't even breaking even. There are threads on this board from very successful escorts that state there are down times in some areas where they don't even cover their travel expenses. Just some food for thought the next time you drop $250.00 as a client and think your escort is better off than you are. Your escort is not getting rich.

 

If I'm wrong escorts, feel free to chime in.

[Juan Vancouver]

Yes, them asking me is inappropriate but it would be interesting what escorts make. Guess we will never know. The question is strictly inappropriate. I would assume some escorts make a lot. But I bet most cant support themselves on what they make as just an escort.

 

Theorizing about how much "an escort" makes is a useless as theorizing how "a cock" should be sucked.

 

Some like it hard on the head, some prefer a soft touch. Some like teeth, some will go soft if they feel the smaller hint. Some like it fast and furious, some slow and sensual, you get my drift.

 

Some escorts have been living in the red for years, barely able to subsist. Some escorts own real estate and have an investment portfolio from the proceeds of escorting. Some inherited obscene amounts of money from their clients.

 

There is no one answer. No specific answer will elucidate the curious mind about how much escorts make.

 

Why not outsource it? And no...I don't mean the meeting or offshore . I know a few guys who have screeners.

 

Are you serious? Would you want this to become a widespread practice?

 

Would you feel comfortable knowing that the most intimate wishes and proclivities of many men and women are in the hands of the "screeners"? Don't you think that would directly violate the unspoken pact of discretion that should be the foundation of every escort-client relationship? Would you be comfortable with your (and every other client's) information be passed around by more people than it is necessary?

 

What a strange world we're living in!

[+ bashful]

There's alot of work that goes into "Preperation"

I know a few guys who have screeners.

I'm always looking for part-time work, with fringe benefits, to add to the retirement income.

[+ Truereview]

I'm always looking for part-time work, with fringe benefits, to add to the retirement income.

Lol! Bash..I hadn't even thought there would be fringe benefits. Hmmm. One of the guys I know dropped that bomb on me after we had a very nice time...thankfully, I don't share too much intimate stuff when booking. I now move even more carefully thru booking.

[Guy Fawkes]

As fun as this has been, let's give it a rest so that the OP can reflect on how he misstepped both here and on the main site.

 

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[rvwnsd]

It is hard to be a curious newbie...and it is even harder to be slammed bc of it...

 

As many have pointed out, it is unacceptable in our culture to ask how much money another person makes. Unless this person just arrived last week, the "curious newbie" card does not apply here.

[LADoug1]

LOL!!! When in business I never made $3750 a week! Of course that is a theoretical amount based on BaronArtz theoretical example of what would be the escort's gross income as exposed to net income. One would need to subtract business expenses to determine net income. Since I always did my own books I had about 15-20 categories of expenses. The number of categories for an escort possibly would be much less. However, it would include at least some basic expenses such as advertising, travel, the cost of a business telephone account, supplies such as condoms, lube, toys, miscellaneous gear, equipment such as a sling, maintaining the equipment, etc. etc. Things can add up very quickly in any business of that I'm quite sure. For example, even if the escort is working out of his apartment he will have higher air conditioning bills during the summer if he needs to keep his playroom or bedroom cooler for client comfort. Heck, even if the escort had to rent a larger apartment to accommodate his business model that would need to be figured in as well.

 

I have always wondered how many guys simply wing it as opposed to figuring out all the factors involved in setting up and actually running a business. It reminds me of the I Love Lucy episode where Lucy and Ethel decide to market Aunt Martha's salad dressing and realize way too late that they are actually loosing money on every jar sold!

And I like Lucy's comment "we may be losing money on every jar but we'll make it up in volume. "

[Kevin Slater]

It reminds me of the I Love Lucy episode where Lucy and Ethel decide to market Aunt Martha's salad dressing and realize way too late that they are actually loosing money on every jar sold!

 

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/first-citiwide-bank-change-ii/n9703

 

Kevin Slater

[+ DickyF]

Some salaried folks may be surprised that an escort could make $15k+ a month. To understand though the contrast with a self-employed businessman (eg, escort) these are benefits I get from my employer that they wouldn't get:

Vacation pay

Sick leave

Pension contributions

Matching 401K contributions

SS and Medicare contribution

Life insurance

Healthcare premium contribution

Plus I get reimbursed for business travel.

 

This definitely adds up!

 

I know my employer is pretty generous but most salaried people get at least some of these.

[Beancounter]

As many have pointed out, it is unacceptable in our culture to ask how much money another person makes. Unless this person just arrived last week, the "curious newbie" card does not apply here.

 

I totally agree that it's in poor taste to ask how much a person makes. However there are exceptions to this societal taboo, the most notable being how much civil servants, government employees and certain non-profit employees make It's a matter of public record for the whole world to see. I have many a friend in the public sector, much to their chagrin, who have had public records requests filed as to how much they make and what fringe benefits they receive.

[whipped guy]

Some salaried folks may be surprised that an escort could make $15k+ a month. To understand though the contrast with a self-employed businessman (eg, escort) these are benefits I get from my employer that they wouldn't get:

Vacation pay

Sick leave

Pension contributions

Matching 401K contributions

SS and Medicare contribution

Life insurance

Healthcare premium contribution

Plus I get reimbursed for business travel.

 

This definitely adds up!

 

I know my employer is pretty generous but most salaried people get at least some of these.

Yes, having been self employed I had to get my own medical and just about everything else that you mention as well. Some items are tax deductible or tax deferred so that helps, but when you look at the actual net take home pay after those items are dealt with it ain't at all what many people think that it would be.

 

So that is another reason for someone in business not to wing it but rather have a definite plan for their business model. The best advice that I ever got was to start saving for retirement from day one. I doubt that is the case for most escorts or even other professionals.

[Jock123]

Some salaried folks may be surprised that an escort could make $15k+ a month. To understand though the contrast with a self-employed businessman (eg, escort) these are benefits I get from my employer that they wouldn't get:

Vacation pay

Sick leave

Pension contributions

Matching 401K contributions

SS and Medicare contribution

Life insurance

Healthcare premium contribution

Plus I get reimbursed for business travel.

 

This definitely adds up!

 

I know my employer is pretty generous but most salaried people get at least some of these.

 

 

Lets also not forget building a Reputable Resume. MOST Employers these days want those with not only a Degree, But EXPERIENCE.

 

A full time Escort who's been doing this for 5+ Years....Is sacrificing that alone. We cant Escort forever. Eventually we all get back to the "Real world". Thus explaining our Resume should be fun(Sarcasm)

[RockyHardon]

If I were to ask a Civil Engineer ..."What do you earn per week", unless they were a very close friend who I was confiding in to make a career change or to change positions from one engineering firm to another, I would not expect to get an answer.

 

I am certain that escort income, like civil engineers income, ranges from "just enough to get by" to "being able to live fabulously and save for retirement", and everything in between. A good escort who does not have a drug habit, or a boyfriend with a drug habit, can expect to earn enough to live a very comfortably middle-class lifestyle in whatever city he lives in. I have been with a ton of working people (escorts), and as is my habit i try to keep in touch with all my regulars. After being in this world for over 20 years (mostly as a client, but ocassionally as a provider for fun), I see that many escorts live a comfortable middle class life as single people (Nice apartment or condo; nice car; regular vacations); I know a few that have acquired the american dream of a home for themselves or, for my immigrant friends, a home for their family back in their native country. I also know many who have left the game and do regular day jobs and escort part-time as a supplement (but these friends all had ambivalent attitudes towards escorting from the start).

 

Therefore, the answer to your question is simple. Escort incomes range based on the quality and willingness of the escort to work hard....and it is very, very hard work. Anybody who says escorting isn't hard has never done it. It can be fun, but it is still work, and an escort makes a lot of personal and social sacrifices for the work that other professions don't have to make, which increases the difficulty emotionally, hence the prevalence of addiction in the community.

 

A book I recommend for anyone interested on an academic level about this and other topics is: "Male Sex Work and Society" by Victor Minichiello and John Scott.

[Brian Kevin]

Someone could say 1,000. Sounds good right?

 

But is that in Dollars, Rupees, or Hatian Gourde?

 

Have a friend who told me he'd see escorts in Chicago that made $5,000-6,000 a month. I asked him when was that, he said around 2002-2003. I just burst into laughter. I told him, Hun...you're talking about the days when rentboy was young and men4rent was the hot shit for only $19.95 for a platinum ad trial. Before the smart phone, before the scruff app, before the recession and inflation. We're not talking about the same Chicago honey.

 

Ain't nobody in Chicago making 5-6 k a month. He lying thru his jagged teeth

[Maximus69]

not enough

[Guy Fawkes]

Guys which part of: "As fun as this has been, let's give it a rest so that the OP can reflect on how he misstepped both here and on the main site" did you not get? It's time to stop beating the horse.

[MasterMaxRR]

I'm certainly not going to answer that question directly, but just wanted to point out that phrasing it differently might get you the answer you seek. If I've ever been curious about how much someone makes, I don't just ask "how much do you make?" Rather, "how much would I expect to make in a similar position?" At least this way they can quote you how much their job generally makes rather than what they get on their W-2's. One is personal but the other is just curiosity.

[Bargara Leatherboy]

I think it was a good question to ask if the OP was thinking of joining the biz.