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They can definitely earn the money...with scenes averaging out at about $1,000 a pop (sometimes more if more is required or the girl has a higher rate, like an Amy Ried), working 4 days a week and taking 3 off, that's a little over $200,000 per annum. More if they work more/do more.



At that rate, how long until they are shot-out and the phone stops ringing? How many would even reach a full year to make that $200k?



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2) can they manage their career with an eye on longevity, i.e., holding off on certain acts so that they have a fall back option if work in other niches/genres dry up?



Now, bearing in mind FLoP #1, I believe Aria AKA Marie Silva told Luke Ford she was making somewhere around that amount a year whilst she was in porn (of course, she didn't save or invest any of it, but that's not the point). If I'm being charitable, I wouldn't say she was anything particularly special to look at and was never one of the 'hot' gonzo girls of her day, but she obviously worked fairly steadily...as the saying goes, the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

By the way, surely Peter North must be comfortably in the seven-figures-plus range by now?