Rates

Rates - a very thorny question

Some clients will want a "per hour" quote. Others ask for a quote for a "job" or "session".

Work too cheap and you won't make money. Ask too much and you won't get work...

My advice is as follows:-

Serious professional clients will tell you, in their enquiry:-

• WHERE it will be, or is at least likely to be.
• WHEN it will be. If not an actual date, at least a timescale.
• HOW LONG it will last.
• WHAT will be involved.
• HOW MUCH you will be paid.

They will make it clear if there are any uncertainties. E.g. "A three hour Art Nude and light Fetish shoot, hopefully next week, and in a Manchester Studio. £250, plus £30 for travel. Start around 2pm, but can be flexible to avoid high cost rail tickets if you will be travelling by train".

If the enquiry is NOT clear, respond by asking specific questions to fill in the blanks. This gets rid of most timewasters.

As an extra, add in any specifics you care to offer. E.g. "My rate for this work is £60 an hour, minimum booking 2 hours, 3 outside London, and ALL my travel costs must be paid.

Example Rates

It really is very hard to give hard numbers, esp at the softer rates. For softer rates some semi pro girls in cheaper parts of the UK will do fetish for £30 an hour at their house, while a full time London model might charge £80, discounting only for bookings of 4 hours or more...

It really depends on your look and ability as a model. Also the ability of the photographer. Photographers who are good, will pay for good models, because good models can deliver the images they want to capture.

If you quote and don't get work, maybe you are asking too much. But if you are getting work, don't let cheapskates force you down.

Hardcore

Amateur style and smaller scale producers you can expect £250ish, and that will usually involve whatever can be filmed in 3 hours. (Typically two BG scenes and some solo). This applies to all models, regardless of age, looks etc.

If you are "pornstar" material though, you will be wanting to very quickly step up to the bigger companies, with more money to spend. Expect £350 a scene plus travel for simple BG hardcore work for a major production company*.

Normally you'd do one scene in any single day. If you are asked for more than one scene, you should be on a day rate of around £450-£500. (Scenes should take 1-2 hours, but due to shooting issues you can be there all day. Best attitude is to expect to be. Take a book). Anal and DP may get you extra money, but not always.

*Sometimes companies will offer more, esp when they are busy and need girls. The MOST I've heard of in the Uk is £500 a scene, £1000 a day.

Contracts - from time to time companies want to contract girls. These deals are very much per girl and while they can be very good, they are not always as good as they seem. For example £3000pm was offered to a model and I told her to turn it down. This was because she lived up North - child, family, couldn't leave -, all the shoots were in Kent. Her travel was her cost, as would be hotels if she needed to use them, which she would because of the trains etc. Result was that she would have spent more than half on travel/hotels. £3000 would have been great if London/Kent based, but in her case, not.

DO NOT CONTRACT to any company unless they guarantee you, in writing, to pay you every month (or week if you don't trust them much), an agreed minimum sum, WHETHER OR NOT YOU WORK.