$2,500 for a model?

[sc32803]

I happened to see this ad on Craig's List:

http://austin.craigslist.org/adg/699823103.html

They're offering $2,500 for modeling jobs. That seems really high to me... has the average market price for hot studs gone up without my noticing?

[basschick]

several posters on this board pay that much.

[Alex_Manifest_M]

Most models in our niche earn $1500 per solo scene. $500 for a photoshoot. We generally bundle the shoots 2 solo scenes and one 2.5 hour photo shoot over 1.5 days (luxury hotel and food provided) with air fare and limo. This 1.5 day assignment pays $3000.

Top tier muscle guys are very high dollar.

[Jasun]

only $2500?

I wish.

The moral of the story is "you get what you pay for." :jasun:

[gaybucks_chip]

The other issue is... take with a grain of salt any ad on Craigslist.

A few weeks ago, there was an ad for "Osterfeld Worldwide" on Craigslist making all sorts of outrageous claims (largest male modeling agency in the world, single photog for the biggest gay company in the US, etc.) which upon inspection turned out to be totally bogus. They were making all sorts of inflated claims, and just last week, another bogus scout hit up AJ on Myspace inviting him to model for Falcon (if you've ever met AJ, he, at 5'4 and 130 lbs dripping wet, is about as far from a Falcon model as it gets.)

There are a TON of so-called "agents" or "scouts" who get paid for models they refer to various studios, and some of them float the $2500-5000 per scene number out there, knowing that while there are numerous studios who do, in fact, pay that, the vast majority of models who respond will end up working for small twink studios that pay a tenth of that.

Models who are in the jock/college boy sector and work for the bigger producers are regularly paid $1500-5000/scene, and more is not uncommon. I'm not familiar with the pay rates for the 25+ crowd, but I assume that's up there too. Twinks generally get paid less, depending on the studio or site.

[derekt]

Damn! We pay our models between $1200 and $2000 for a weekend shoot. But we also produce aprox. 35 scenes in a weekend. Models are in about 10-15 of those. But it's not all sex.... We also film:
Massage Only - No Sex, No masturbation or anything
Truth or Dare games
Naked Workouts
Circle Jerks
Orgies
etc.

I thought we paid a lot.

[sc32803]

Yeah, I was thinking that $1,500 was about the max for high quality models, with "average" amateur type guys getting around $200 to $500. Shows how much I know.

I'm only doing some blogs right now but have toyed with the idea of starting a site with original content. You guys must be making A LOT of money if you can afford to pay models more than $2,500! I'd probably have to plan on start-up costs of $50K or more just to get enough models to launch a site!

[Alex_Manifest_M]

We have no choice. You can not get top quality guys for $100 and a line of coke. This aint 1982.

[Jasun]

Rule of thumb.. if a guy comes to you and wants to do porn... don't use him.

If he's so hot that he makes you weak but WILL NOT do porn.. pay him enough to change his mind. :cheerleader:

[MiamiB]

Rule of thumb.. if a guy comes to you and wants to do porn... don't use him.

If he's so hot that he makes you weak but WILL NOT do porn.. pay him enough to change his mind. :cheerleader:

THANK YOU!

That is exactly what we do and you can see the results. We shoot amazing boyz who no one else can get!

Now that is HOT!

[703_Angel]

You can not get top quality guys for $100 and a line of coke. This aint 1982.

HAHA I think a lot of people in the DVD side of the industry need to be reminded of this!

[gaybucks_chip]

I think a lot of people on the DVD side already know this

[PornMadeMeRich]

only $2500?

I wish.

The moral of the story is "you get what you pay for." :jasun:

Out of curiosity, do you website owners scout guys from "show off" sites like dudesnude or bigmuscle?

[Alex_Manifest_M]

Not as a rule. As far as models go, hook-up sites are not a great resource.

[Jasun]

Not us.

Everyone else does that. you'll just end up with "been there... seen him" syndrome.