I had a production deal with Hustler in the 2003-2005 I was on the east coast in NYC at the time. We paid male talent $200-300. Female talent $500 but sweetened the deal by shooting 2 scenes with a chick and she walked with $1000. We was where the West coast chicks came to shoot when their west coast deals dried up.Male performers weren't getting 900 a scene. Those dudes were getting a couple hundred. Hell some hoes barely got 900 a scene.
Pumper should've had a little bread since he was producing his own shit but all those producers went broke too like Lex Steele
You got to pay the hoes, camera men, rent the sets, pay for the tests, etc.
If the shit doesn't sell well they were taking losses
And the internet made them dudes take serious Ls
Hell as soon as their scenes dropped it was on the net to be downloaded.
We got that production deal because it was cheaper to shoot out east than out west. We got peanuts compared to what west coast black budgets were. Let’s not talk about what the white producers were getting. Those fancy houses you see in those pornos also cost a grip to rent, talent agency fees, make up artists, production assistants, drivers and equipment rental. Male talent could make or break your budget, if your male talent can’t perform all those fees start to go up aswell. As a producer you needed dependable male talent in your back pocket, $900 was not breaking any Westcoast companies.