How Much Does an Escort Cost? All Factors Considered
A professional escort has a harder job than many expect, leaving many surprised at the amount they need to budget to hire a high-priced escort. However, escort agencies and independent escorts have overhead expenses, and the worker you hire to show you a night out in the city does a lot of unseen work to ensure you have a great time.
The best escorts are not only beautiful but cultured, intelligent, and well-informed on several topics of pop culture, current events, and specialized knowledge. Your escort should be able to fall into a conversation with you and your friends about anything and impress you all with her knowledge.
What Factors Affect How Much an Escort Charges?
The average price escorts charge their clients depend on several factors. Agencies do most of the marketing for their workers, but independent escorts must pay for their own advertising, photos, and phone services.
Escorting isn’t like most jobs that pay by the hour. Instead, an escort or the agency she works for must set prices to plan for additional labor and costs outside of her bookings.
A worker will have to consider the cost of working as an escort. For example, she must maintain her beauty with skincare, manicures, pedicures, hair styling, exercise, and a healthy diet. She also must pay taxes, have a business phone, and live near the city; if you use escorts through an agency, the agencies often take most of the booking fees for their overhead.
Because of the fees many escorts incur by marketing their services to attract new clients, you should also expect to tip them for going above and beyond your expectations, as well as covering all associated costs for your date. If you take her to a concert, a bar, or dancing at a club, you need to manage the costs of her tickets, drinks, and meals.
So how do workers in the escort industry determine what price to charge their clients to meet their needs?
A Worker May not Have a 40-Hour Week of Escorting
Not every hour of work for escorts is a paid hour. Clients may suspect that it’s a high price to pay escorts because they provide a higher level of service, but escorts also spend much of their time ensuring they can meet the needs of every client.
Unpaid work for an escort can include maintaining a fitness routine, reading the latest works of popular authors, staying up-to-date with films, popular culture, and politics, knowing the current hot spots in the area, and familiarizing herself with the best cuisine and bars in the city.
Escorts offer more than just companionship. They are local experts who can show a person visiting the area the best spots for entertainment, dining, drinking, hiking, surfing, or other activities.
Escorts Often Include Work for Emotional Labor in Their Prices
An escort may offer more for a client than just someone to bring on a date or physical contact such as a massage or cuddling. Instead, an escort often becomes a listening ear and open heart for her clients.
Prices often reflect common obstacles that workers must endure while providing comfort and companionship. The price a customer ends up paying better reflects all of the labor that workers perform as escorts.
Women Working as Escorts Still Have All the Job Responsibilities of Other Workers
Workers and business owners still must file taxes, maintain a life outside of work, pay bills, and manage their expenses to own or rent a home. Whether she works for an agency or is independently employed, an escort has these same expenses and responsibilities.
Additionally, she may have similar expenses to a person who owns their own company, such as paying for a website and domain, managing her ad spend, regularly updating her photos and bio on her different online platforms, and getting new professional pictures taken in different locations and settings.
There Is a Negative Stigma Around a Girl Earning Her Income as an Escort
While a client may contact an agency to find a travel companion or a date for an event in town, most of the country still holds a negative idea about the type of work that escorts perform and the type of clients that escorts attract.
You may want to call an escort for any number of reasons. Whether you need a date for a specific event, want to practice dating with a girl you’ve hired, or if you’ve been dating for a while and don’t seem to click with anyone, you can rely on escorts to offer you any number of experiences.
An escort can be your companion for traveling, a local expert to take you to all the most popular and interesting spots in the area, or you can splurge for the girlfriend experience and get a real, human connection with your escort.
If You Want Attractive Girls, It Takes Hours of Unpaid Labor
Despite what movies and television show us, most girls don’t just wake up beautiful. Appearing attractive at all times requires a host of beauty products and services that most workers must have in order to appeal to customers interested in paying more for a high-priced, high-value escort. Some of these products and services can include:
- Waxing or laser hair removal
- Permanent makeup tattooing
- Moisturizing and skin-brightening treatments
- Hair coloring and styling
- Eyebrow waxing or threading
- Sunless tanning
- Manicures and pedicures
- Fitness classes and gym memberships
- Healthy meal prep or meal kit delivery
Additionally, even with a stunning body and beautiful face, an escort must have the appropriate look throughout your time together. For a single date of dancing, dinner, and drinks, one outfit will do. However, if you want her to accompany you for a whole weekend or longer of travel, outdoor activities, and visiting local landmarks or cultural centers, she might need to rotate several expensive jewelry, shoe, and clothing options.
Escorting Isn’t Always a Safe Line of Work
Because of the nature of the business, an escort isn’t always safe at work. She’s going to meet a stranger to provide him with company for a date. While her clients often defer to her experience around the area to choose restaurants or to recommend a hotel room if they’re from out of town, others may lead her to a less familiar location with fewer escape routes.
While most clients are nothing except gentlemen toward their escort, meeting with strange men while working can be dangerous in any industry, especially in professional dating. Many escorts charge higher prices to deter clients from harassing them while working.
This is one benefit of using agencies to find escorts. Agencies can screen clients and provide an additional layer of safety for their escorts, making them more comfortable with new clients from the beginning.
What Is the Average Cost that an Escort Gets Paid for Their Services?
Escorts tend to earn different rates depending on the class of clients that they serve and their service niche. On average, the price for a female escort tends to be around $300 hourly and between $1,500 and $2,000 for the entire evening. By contrast, male escorts tend to earn around $250 per hour but often make more per evening at approximately $3,000.
You may also be able to save on your costs by reserving a block of time. For example, escorts who normally charge $300 per hour may offer four hours for $1,000 for a savings of $200.
These are estimates based on survey responses by some escorts and agencies. Some escorts may charge more or less than these estimates, and not every escort or agency price their service options the same.
Is It Legal to Hire an Escort?
Escorts are legal in California, although they must be licensed and may not perform certain services for their clients. Implying or promising such services once “off the clock” is also illegal. Instead, you can hire an escort to accompany you as a date to an event or to help you practice dating if you haven’t been on a date in a while.
The Difference Between Using Agencies and Independent Escorts
There is a higher risk using an independent escort over an agency. An independent escort manages her own business on top of serving her clients. She may struggle to answer the phone or respond to messages in a timely manner, and she might cost more to cover her overhead.
Agencies have several escorts and manage their operations for them. An agency escort only has to manage her own costs for her appearance and can rely on the agency to manage her marketing, vetting, and calls. Because an agency is a network, fees from every job booked help to maintain the agency’s costs.
How to Find a Reputable Escort Service
Reputable escort services advertise discretion. They also use real photos of their escorts. Be sure to reverse-search the photos you’ve seen of potential escorts to determine if they’re real.
There are also websites you can use to run an agency’s name through to determine if it’s legitimate. You can also look for business licenses for the agency on your state’s business license directory.
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