While Jenna is definitely the Top Paid Performer, other girls can make more money in a year than Jenna--but they have to work three, four, five, six-times as many scenes.
Some non-contract girls claim to make over $250k a year; while my best info has the highest paid Contract Girls (not Jenna) getting between $100-$125k per year, for six to eight videos. So, having a contract isn't about money, it's about "free time" for personal life, partying, or other adult industry work, like photo shoots and dance appearances.
BTW, no matter "what" they make it's a LOT of money for an 18-26 year old, high school-educated girl to suddenly have and can spend any way she wants. Plus, I can't think of any porn girls who grew up in wealthy homes, where they would be use to this type of money--unless you count Paris Hilton...I don't! So, it shouldn't be too surprising that these girls spend so much of their money on drugs or alcohol, and the partying lifestyle.
One way to show it "cares," would be for the porn industry to do something like the pro sports leagues, and set up a retirement fund for performers. It would provide a little "nest egg" and might keep some of the girls from having to "escort" after their porn days are over.
I saw a c grade poern chicks taxs this year and she claimed 500k, it wasnt me i didnt make penuts this year but i think its just a matter of how much you do, from straight fucking on film i wouldnt be suprised if kelly wells out earned jenna
New anal girl, relatively cute. Scene rate is at least a grand. She works at least 5 days a week, sometimes more, sometimes twice in one day but also sometimes less. On average she makes about 20k a month, not including extra-curricular business "meetings". At years end she's at about a quarter mil. She also has an asshole with the circumference of a frisbee, a meth habit and herpes. She's also now completely shot out by all of us heartless smut merchants who have an unquenchable thirst for new faces and her work schedule declines by at least 30%. By the end of year 2 she's gone back to wherever she came from and suddenly there's a "WEHT to so & so" thread on ADT.
True enough . . . . but she's also taking back about 400K less tax and 2 years living expenses to wherever she came from. Assuming she has her head screwed on she could be looking at 100-200K in the bank at age 21. Swings and roundabouts.
The scenario you've just described has never happened.
Two things stand out from your post - "Head screwed on". Any girl that had her head screwed on would probably not consider porn as a vocation. "400k less taxes" - To the best of my knowledge porn girls don't pay taxes unless they are forcibly witheld from their checks. I receive notices and letters almost daily from the IRS notifying me of girls I've shot who owe thousands in back taxes.
I fear that my sarcasm and cynicism may have derailed this thread.
Back on topic - top pooners make a lot of dough :)
[/quote] True enough . . . . but she's also taking back about 400K less tax and 2 years living expenses to wherever she came from. Assuming she has her head screwed on she could be looking at 100-200K in the bank at age 21. Swings and roundabouts. [/quote]
You're forgetting about the LA fastlane, that almost all of the girls fall into, nowadays. Alcohol, drugs & Rock 'n Roll. Going out to clubs is a 7-day-a-week thing, and Rockers & Rocker Wannabes seem to have direct access to all the girls, either thru the talent agencies or the production companies. [Example: Tommy Lee and Stefani Morgan! Ugh!]
You name the performer (mostly freelancers, but more and more the contract girls, too..until they get fired), and chances are there's strong evidence that she's on drugs or is falling-down drunk every night. I spend enough time in LA to see this first-hand.
Many porn babes spend the money as fast as they earn it, and when the biz is through with them have little to show for their two/three years--except for diseases that won't ever go away, and an asshole that won't close.
True enough . . . . but she's also taking back about 400K less tax and 2 years living expenses to wherever she came from. Assuming she has her head screwed on she could be looking at 100-200K in the bank at age 21. Swings and roundabouts.
Click to expand
You're forgetting about the LA fastlane, that almost all of the girls fall into, nowadays. Alcohol, drugs & Rock 'n Roll. Going out to clubs is a 7-day-a-week thing, and Rockers & Rocker Wannabes seem to have direct access to all the girls, either thru the talent agencies or the production companies. [Example: Tommy Lee and Stefani Morgan! Ugh!]
You name the performer (mostly freelancers, but more and more the contract girls, too..until they get fired), and chances are there's strong evidence that she's on drugs or is falling-down drunk every night. I spend enough time in LA to see this first-hand.
Many porn babes spend the money as fast as they earn it, and when the biz is through with them have little to show for their two/three years--except for diseases that won't ever go away, and an asshole that won't close.
Click to expand
Hey, I was just exploring the other side of Mike Quasars 'Simple Math' scenario, not presenting it as a valid lifestyle choice !!
I have paid taxes since I got in the biz (I bitch about it but I do it) I also bought a house. When this is all over I will still own property. There are a lot of idiots but we are not all idiots. And you know cause rock throwing is fun I see an assload of directors and company owners blowing all their money on privates and coke and trying as hard as possible to make it look like they have money when all they have is debt.
I read about owners whose checks bounce or who do not pay talent as agreed. (Didn't Rob Black do this?) The saddest thing was Annabel Chong who did the 251 guy gangbang (70 men) to set a world record-she was promised $12,000 and did not get paid. The last 2 hours she was bleeding from the guys uncut fingernails and they had to put ice on her. I think Ron Jeremy was the last guy.
ya, i was in a porn shop last night and there was a title on the shelf that I still havent been paid for! and Pittsburgh doesn't get porn the day it comes out!
Good news! Your heart is intact. Sunny does hang out and about, but doesn't seem to be out of control on drugs/booze like many of the porn girls. Which means, she doesn't make an ass of herself in public. And, she doesn't seem to be falling all over one of the non-talent, rocker wannabes that invest LA.
[Link]
Ordell Deactivated User
1042 Posts 6/05
Posted - Mar 14 2006 : 3:27AM
heh good to know, although she seems to have a good head on her shoulders. Not like I have any allusions about her, even if by some miracle I met her here in L.A. Hell she's half my age. Although if I ever find out she's escorting, I may have to liquidate the 401k. :)
hm..i wouldn't go saying that girls are out all the time getting wasted and on drugs. sure we all like to have our fun, but there is a lot more to life than drinking with people who think they are "cool" cause they are in the "scene".
[Link]
Eric381 Deactivated User
What are you looking at? It 2452 Posts 3/05
Posted - Jul 14 2006 : 2:12AM
Tellin' it like it is...yet with such wit & humor even I had to laugh at the "circumference of a frisbee" line.
I still think the industry should simply create a system where a certain amount of each performer's paycheck goes into an investment fund--that cannot be touched, but pays them dividends, annually, depending upon the amount of money the individual puts in. This would provide every performer a source of outside income, from day one--and prepare them for their non-porn "after life."
Our course the industry has such an I'm-A-Rebel mentality, and believes that any kind of "assistance" (heatlh, financial, vocational training for the post-porn years) infringes upon the individual's God-given right to fuck-up their life. So, they'll never do anything like this...and we'll continue to hear stories of once famous porn stars escorting or broke or living at home with Mom & Dad.