What a tough question. I would guess that the vast majority of adult webmasters as just scraping by or working a real job in addition to working part-time on porn.

This biz is just so full of followers that wait for someone to come up with something successful and then they make a hollow copy of it. I'm not just talking about all of the new bloggers out there or all of the new TGPs of a few years back. It's fine to start a new blog or TGP but very few webmasters try to put their own spin on them. These people will always struggle to be successful.

If webmasters just tried to carve their own niche and stick with whatever is actually working, they'd have more chance of finding success. Instead they just abandon everything when something new comes along. "Oh, this is blog thing is going to make me rich... screw this TGP crap." They gave up the frees sites because the sponsor content the were using was over-exposed. And before the free sites were the AVS galleries that they gave up on before they earned enough to get the first check. Flitting around aimlessly is going to get them nowhere and earn them next-to-nothing.

This rant isn't directed at anyone on GWW... more directed at the GFY-types out there. I honestly think that if a webmaster took only 10% of the advice offered here on GWW, they couldn't possibly fail in whatever they choose to do.

Having said that, I would guess that the average GWWer earns between $30,000 and $100,000 per year. That's of course based on nothing but a hunch. Lol. And I would make an uneducated guess that the average GFYer/college student earns $10,000 to $20,000 per year. Of course there are a few members of GWW that make BIG bucks... we know who they are.