Ken Marcus Studios wrote:
Taxes are taken out of the Playmates fees.
It is not paid in one lump sum, but rather in many small payments.

Also . . . don't forget the contract that Playmates have to sign stating that they can't have their own websites or model for anyone without PB's permission for at least 2 years after the date of publication . . . . not a very good deal if you ask me . . . . . and I shot centerfolds for them for 11 years.

KM

Ken -

Just wanted to say I have admired your work for a long time (probably 20 years or so.)

TheNormGallerys wrote:

Passed payments received from PB Inc.

Centerfold = $14,000.00 + personal appearance contract moneys.
Special Edition publications = $650.00 to $1500.00 per publication.
PB Inc. CyberClub web-sites = $650.00 to $750.00 per publication.

wrong.

yourphotographer wrote:

Maxim doesn't pay the model, but does pay 500 dollars to the photographer if the do print the picture. They offer a quarter page for the right picture. Very difficult to get accepted.

Celebrities that do shoot for Playboy are paid in the million dollar figure and not the 6 figure.

The guy who got me started was a contributing photographer about 20 years ago.  He said one girl he shot for Playboy got paid 64,000 then.  But I don't know if it was a centerfold gig.

pamela mars wrote:

wrong.

Someone may make more on their web site selling pictures of their bewbies.

yourphotographer wrote:

You can call Corporate in Chicago. Playmates get paid 25 thousand. Playmate of the Year gets paid 250 thousand.

Special Editions pays 250 dollars to the model and the freelance photographer is paid 400 dollars. If the model does make it as a Playmate, there is potential for a photographer to receive a finders fee, but Playboy does not promise this.

Special Editions is a good way to enter into Playboy. If selected, a model will be reviewed by other Editors for potential use. Playboy has many ventures including modeling their line of clothing.

Before any model starts to hop aboard the train for submissions to Special Editions, take a look at who they accept.

we are paid more than $250

Greg Cobb Photography wrote:

The guy who got me started was a contributing photographer about 20 years ago.  He said one girl he shot for Playboy got paid 64,000 then.  But I don't know if it was a centerfold gig.

The numbers are set for Playmates and Playmate of the year.

TXPhotog wrote:
Typically $500 for a day shoot, although for some special applications and video use I have seen fees as high as $1,500.  The centerfold and celebrities get a lot more, of course.

thats not alot...

pamela mars wrote:

we are paid more than $250

Were you on the web or in the magazine? The information is no older than 1 year so the pay must not have increased that much.

TXPhotog wrote:
Alan from Avian Productions books with them quite a bit.  I'm sure he has more current information than I do.  Perhaps he will answer the question.

OK, I have been drafted to answer.

Playboy pays different rates that run all over the board.

For the flats, (special editions), it is typically $500 a day, with a one day shoot.  If they use you on the cover, they will up it to $750.  Normally they will use you in three different books from a single shoot.

Playmate pays $26,000 but it isn't paid all at once.  They normally pay you part at your test, part at your shoot, part when your centerfold is shot and the balance after you are assigned a month.  You can be dissed at any point along the way (i.e. just shooting doesn't guarantee that you will be used), but you can be sure your pictures will be published if you aren't a centerfold.  Most of the Cyber-Girls are models who didn't make it a Playmates.

Special features in the magazine pay from as little as a thousand to several thousands of dollars.  Typical if you are in a special feature in the magazine, you will have to agree not to do nudes for others for at least a year, but they don't always require it.  If you don't have that type of agreement (and that never happens in the flats, the website or TV), you are free to shoot for anybody. Playmates have to agree not to do nudes for anyone, including other divisions of Playboy, for two years from the date that they are published (not the date that they sign).

They normally pay about $125 if you make it into the Grapevine in the back of the main magazine with no strings attached.

If you are on the website, you will typically get paid $150-$250.  You will get a check directly from Playboy even if the photographer has already paid you.  They do that for the release.

Playboy TV has it's own rates and it varies all across the board.  I have seen them pay as little as $150 a day to as much as $1000 a day, but $500 a day is typical.

Playboy does other things such as promotions, parties, painted girls, etc but I don't have time to go into everything.

Please feel free to e-mail me if you want other specific information or if you are a model trying to get in.  Tx is right.  I have  alot of experience with them. I will be happy to help you out.

Nick Zantop wrote:
did you sit on a thumbtack?

total of 2 sentences in profile:  "I'm a professional photographer who specializes in photographing models from anywhere in the United States and Canada. If travel is required I pay all travel and lodging expenses."

nevertherless, a only 6 pix in his port.

is photographing models from anywhere from the Rio Grande to the Arctic Circle a 'specialty'?

if his expense account allows for travel expenses from anywhere within a ~7 million square mile area, who are his clients?

registered 3 weeks, and second post is one that no woman could fail to be offended by.

i say "troll."

Alan from Aavian Prod wrote:

OK, I have been drafted to answer.

Playboy pays different rates that run all over the board.

For the flats, (special editions), it is typically $500 a day, with a one day shoot.  If they use you on the cover, they will up it to $750.  Normally they will use you in three different books from a single shoot.

Playmate pays $26,000 but it isn't paid all at once.  They normally pay you part at your test, part at your shoot, part when your centerfold is shot and the balance after you are assigned a month.  You can be dissed at any point along the way (i.e. just shooting doesn't guarantee that you will be used), but you can be sure your pictures will be published if you aren't a centerfold.  Most of the Cyber-Girls are models who didn't make it a Playmates.

Special features in the magazine pay from as little as a thousand to several thousands of dollars.  Typical if you are in a special feature in the magazine, you will have to agree not to do nudes for others for at least a year, but they don't always require it.  If you don't have that type of agreement (and that never happens in the flats, the website or TV), you are free to shoot for anybody. Playmates have to agree not to do nudes for anyone, including other divisions of Playboy, for two years from the date that they are published (not the date that they sign).

They normally pay about $125 if you make it into the Grapevine in the back of the main magazine with no strings attached.

If you are on the website, you will typically get paid $150-$250.  You will get a check directly from Playboy even if the photographer has already paid you.  They do that for the release.

Playboy TV has it's own rates and it varies all across the board.  I have seen them pay as little as $150 a day to as much as $1000 a day, but $500 a day is typical.

Playboy does other things such as promotions, parties, painted girls, etc but I don't have time to go into everything.

Please feel free to e-mail me if you want other specific information or if you are a model trying to get in.  Tx is right.  I have  alot of experience with them. I will be happy to help you out.

They moved up their rate by a thousand dollars for a Playmate. The Specials for web were paying 200 dollars last year so they must have gone up too.

Get current information. Maybe some of the girls will contact you. You may suggest a few things to the ones interested.

yourphotographer wrote:
They moved up their rate by a thousand dollars for a Playmate. The Specials for web were paying 200 dollars last year so they must have gone up too.

Get current information. Maybe some of the girls will contact you. You may suggest a few things to the ones interested.

I work with Playboy all the time, my information is current.  I've had 75 girls in Playboy.  Glenn, who posted after I did also works with them frequently.  Actually, he and I are pretty good friends.  You will notice that are rates are the same.

There is some variation in rates and I think I made that pretty clear.

TXPhotog wrote:

Understand, "be in Playboy" means two very different things.  One is to be in it in a non-featured way, such as one girl with one photo.  Examples would be the grapevine section or the "Girls Of . . ." features.  That doesn't pay much.  Being in a multipage spread can pay a lot more, but that's very  hard to get.

The other meaning models have is to be hired for a publication that carries the Playboy name, such as the Newsstand Specials.  Those also don't pay much, but the model ever after gets to (and inevitably does, as long as she stays in the glamour business) call herself "a Playboy model".

dont forget the cyber girl of the month and web-site work.

Alan from Aavian Prod wrote:

Playboy pays different rates that run all over the board.


Playmate pays $26,000 but it isn't paid all at once.  They normally pay you part at your test, part at your shoot, part when your centerfold is shot and the balance after you are assigned a month.  You can be dissed at any point along the way (i.e. just shooting doesn't guarantee that you will be used), but you can be sure your pictures will be published if you aren't a centerfold.  Most of the Cyber-Girls are models who didn't make it a Playmates.

and some playmates make centerfold after cybergirl of the month but at times are rare
and only to the ones that grow or (mature) into the centerfold.

ThisYearsModel wrote:
it's $500 a day for anything but a centerfold or some special pictorial like 'Girls of 7-11'.

why bag on Playboy though when there are hundreds of girls on here and OMP who have done or dream of being in Maxim and FHM and receive no payment at all.  Of course there's the exposure - which along with a dollar will buy a can of Pepsi. "weeeeeeeeee - look at meeeeeeeeeeeee- I'm a li'l slut hot date in FHM! I'm so much better and classier than those nude hoebags."

Idiots.

Weeeeeeeeeee... look at meeeeeeeeeeeeee... I can get teenage girls to kiss on camera!!!!!!!!!   

The Don Mon wrote:
and some playmates make centerfold after cybergirl of the month but at times are rare
and only to the ones that grow or (mature) into the centerfold.

It actually isn't uncommon for Playboy to test a model a second or even a third time.  So you are correct.  Most of the time they don't make it the second time around, but sometimes it does happen.  So you have raised a good point.

KoolGirlieStuff wrote:
Hustler pays better and treats their people a whole lot better, I know two gals who have shot and worked for them and they pay alot better too

Playboy`s just a name, their glamour and good $$$ died with them in the 1970`s it`s all just about the bunny now.......

I do not doubt Hustler pays more and have no reason to doubt that they treat the models well.

However, a BIG however, there are many girls, particularly college girls, who are fine with Playboy style nudity, but would never do the Hustler shoot because it involves much more open leg shots and obvious sexual connotation. Playboy is about the hint of sexuality to come, Hustler is pretty overt.

Most PB models could show their parents the Playboy shots, but many would not feel comfortable showing Mom and Dad their Hustler spread.

Nothing wrong with either, but Tom, you and I both know some gals just won't do the Hustler stuff. To those that are comfortable with it, go for it.

Viktoria wrote:

Thats all?  A crappy catalog job pays better. I thought those girls made like 10 k a shoot...

A crappy Catalog is not going to give you the exposure Playboy will - something to think about!!

TXPhotog wrote:
Typically $500 for a day shoot, although for some special applications and video use I have seen fees as high as $1,500.  The centerfold and celebrities get a lot more, of course.

Oddly enough Playboy UK pays more than that, it's one of the few good paying glamour gigs in the UK - although they're not technically anything to do with Playboy US, they just lease the name. The photography's very good, though.

I'm not going to put up the rates though, as I don't think it's my place to do so.

MurphyMurphy Studios wrote:
Just for fun, how much does a full editorial spread in a major fashion mag pay a fashion model?  I don't think that it pays well at all, does it?

It does not.

DannyBourne wrote:

Oddly enough Playboy UK pays more than that, it's one of the few good paying glamour gigs in the UK - although they're not technically anything to do with Playboy US, they just lease the name. The photography's very good, though.

I'm not going to put up the rates though, as I don't think it's my place to do so.

Come on, it's your place. I'm sure we will all agree that we will not have a problem with you releasing the price pay.

yourphotographer wrote:
Maxim doesn't pay the model, but does pay 500 dollars to the photographer if the do print the picture. They offer a quarter page for the right picture. Very difficult to get accepted.

I have placed 22 models in Maxim.  Each and every one of them got paid by Maxim.  The minimum was $150, the most any of them got was $1,000.

pamela mars wrote:
the pay could be way better-but honestly-for how much posing for them has helped me with my career, i would've done it unpaid.

Which's probably why (and no offense mean to you Pamela) they can pay so low.

TheNormGallerys wrote:

Passed payments received from PB Inc.

Centerfold = $14,000.00 + personal appearance contract moneys.
Special Edition publications = $650.00 to $1500.00 per publication.
PB Inc. CyberClub web-sites = $650.00 to $750.00 per publication.

Porn pays more than Playboy. And PB uses the naughty bits shots not in the home videos and throws those up on their Spice channels now. So PB does porn with the ladies and alot of them never notice it playing on the porn channels.

yourphotographer wrote:
They moved up their rate by a thousand dollars for a Playmate. The Specials for web were paying 200 dollars last year so they must have gone up too.

Get current information. Maybe some of the girls will contact you. You may suggest a few things to the ones interested.

Alan from Aavian Prod wrote:
I work with Playboy all the time, my information is current.  I've had 75 girls in Playboy.  Glenn, who posted after I did also works with them frequently.  Actually, he and I are pretty good friends.  You will notice that are rates are the same.

There is some variation in rates and I think I made that pretty clear.

Alan -

If you havn't noticed before, this guy is all over the Forums acting like he knows everything about the business. Over the summer, he posted on his portfolio that he was new to shooting models, but he still likes to try to impress everyone.

yourphotographer wrote:
Maxim doesn't pay the model, but does pay 500 dollars to the photographer if the do print the picture. They offer a quarter page for the right picture. Very difficult to get accepted.

TXPhotog wrote:
I have placed 22 models in Maxim.  Each and every one of them got paid by Maxim.  The minimum was $150, the most any of them got was $1,000.

See my above reply to Alan.

Greg Kolack wrote:
See my above reply to Alan.

I know.  But I still needed to contradict the false information he put into the thread.

glenn my name today wrote:
Alan, funny part is you and I and Ken all either do stuff with the PB organization or have done it, and despite what we say, there will still millions of outlandish rumors and stories out there.

I was thinking the exact same thing.  I am amazed at the number of experts who have never done a thing but have such intimate knowledge.

BTW I just referred a model to you.  Maybe she'll get in touch.  She is on your side of the country.

Greg Kolack wrote:
Alan -

If you havn't noticed before, this guy is all over the Forums acting like he knows everything about the business. Over the summer, he posted on his portfolio that he was new to shooting models, but he still likes to try to impress everyone.

No, I hadn't noticed, thanks!

Photos Etc wrote:
Just curious for the models that have shot for playboy...How much did you make from the photo shoot or calendar or any prints that playboy uses?  Just curious on what they are paying...

$500. and they have 100% rights. That goes for Special Editions as well as Employee of the month. Playmte pays considerably higher...but good luck with that!

Viktoria wrote:

i just think its amazing so many people WANT to be in playboy and they are so poorly paid.  perhaps its like being in vogue, it pays like crap but then opens you job to major campaigns which certainly pay much better....

bingo.