However, jobs in the porn industry are not as lucrative as people might expect, even for performers at the top of their game. This pay could go up or down by 10-20 per cent depending on who the actor is and whether they are well known, he added. He told The Independent a female actress could expect to earn $1300 for a scene with a man, and $895 for a scene with another woman. That’s according to founder of LA Direct Models, Derek Hay, a man who represents many top adult performers and used to work as an actor himself. It’s a multibillion-dollar industry, and while its top stars have the potential to rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, many new performers could be paid as little as $390 per movie, The Sun reports.Īnd those behind the scenes aren’t paid nearly as well as their Hollywood counterparts, despite the industry’s multi-billion pound price tag. AT ANY given second, there are thought to be 28,000 people watching internet porn around the world.
