How much are you worth? It all comes down to what you believe your time is worth to another person. The equipment, looks, surroundings are all secondary although they certainly help.
The median price for an escort in a major metropolitan city is $200 an hour. That's removing the high-end escorts and the crackhoes. I know that we are not escorts however, the interaction that men crave from escorts is something along the lines of what we provide. We can't really compare ourselves to high-end escorts, (unless we are a top 100 MyFreeCams model), and we certainly are not crackhoes. We're somewhere in between stripper/escort.
However, it's fascinating to see how some high end escorts can charge upwards of $5k a night and are constantly booked. Escorting is interesting in the fact that the more experienced the girl, the more she tends to make. With the internet, and sites that rate escort services, it's a true marketing haven that can help support the business savvy escort. Also, because of the internet, escorting has become safer with sites and resources that make it possible to fully screen johns before deciding to make them customers.
High-end call girls look the part and therefore, they have a lot more overhead/calex. If they are an in-call escort, they must provide the luxurious environment to their customers and that usually means an expensively furnished abode in an expensive, high-end neighborhood. They wear high-end designer clothes and perhaps drive high end cars etc. They will spend thousands on beauty treatments and plastic surgery to maintain their looks and to justify their prices. Men who can afford these girls believe 100% that they are getting the best. Men are competitive and will spend a lot of money on things that reflect their own self-worth eg. a rich man don't want no dollar ho.
What does this mean to camgirls?
We can follow the same kind of economic analysis.
When you price yourself anything below $4.99 a minute on a cam site that takes 65% you are making less than $1.75 a minute. Is that all you are worth? The average private show is around 4 minutes so that's $7. On average you have about 2 shows per hour which amounts to $14 per hour. In some parts of North America, that's is only slightly above minimum wage. In those minutes, you are taking your clothes off, providing sexual interaction, taking the risk of being recorded and being distributed to tube sites and exposing yourself to friends, family and employers. You are forever on the internet and your future employ-ability is compromised. How is this any different from being an escort? Sure, we may not have the risk of catching an STD or getting raped but really, the psychological impact is the same if you really think about it all. No escort would ever price herself at $14 an hour let alone any stripper if she could price herself and not just rely on tips. In a way, strippers/escorts have it slightly better because their clients depend on discreetness. It's much less likely for any video footage to appear on the internet simply because most johns are married and they don't want their lives compromised or their wives finding out.
Did you know that it is way more expensive for a man to get married solely for the reason of steady sex? I know men marry for love and companionship but some don't. Check our this article:
http://libertychat.com/2014/11/econo...ives-20-years/
So, if some poor fool decides to start bartering with you about your prices, tell him about that article. Compared to escorts, cam girls are a fucking bargain and nobody will get sick. We won't become ex-one night stand stalkers. We won't pressure him for marriage or more money. We're not gold diggers. There is nothing more sexually convenient than a cam girl and for that luxury alone, we need to price ourselves accordingly. With us, there's no fucking waiting. Guy is horny, guy wants sex, cam girl is there 24 fucking 7.
Raise your fucking prices. Do the math. We are worth so much more. We own this industry and have the power to make it what we deserve. If all of this doesn't convince you to raise your rates, then it's probably better if you go back to a vanilla job.
Oh and if you want to become a baller cam girl, go all out and get yourself a killer set up or at least aim for it. Do like the 6-figure Youtube stars and get the beauty ringlight, DSLR streaming capability and a Blue Yeti microphone. Then raise those rates even higher. Fuck it, you deserve it! It's what I do, and I'm never lowering my rates, I'd rather quit camming entirely.
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