How exactly are they reasonable calculations? Because Mr. Economist said so? If you can explain why they’re actually reasonable and not absurd as the providers have all said they are, then Id take it more seriously. Even if you don’t have actual data, all I see are assumptions with no reasoning. I actually don’t think his numbers are impossible to achieve but I think the probability of achieving those numbers are low. The avg career based full time provider is comfortably in the middle class income bracket for Ottawa.
I’ve never tried to shut this thread or claim it’s no one’s business. I’m not at all concerned about people discussing rates either. I see flaws in methods that don’t work, I point them out.
Lets go back to fall's 4 statements.
1) Agency girl can easily have 4 hours of clients in 8 hour shift getting paid $160 per hour net (no expenses)
2) Full time is 5 days a week with generous 8 weeks a year vacation/holiday (i.e., 48 total work weeks)
3) (1) & (2) gives $153,600 net a year
4) If indi cannot make $150,000 net (after all expenses) per year, why they work as indi and not for an agency? If they chose to worlas indi, it means one or more of (a) they do not work ful time (b) indi work is less demanding than agency girl work or (c) their business is not run efficiently or (d) The indi model of business is not efficient as a class
For 1) let's assume it's her Second year with consistently great service working for a agency where she'll likely draw the most viewers/customers.
Lets say she gets 3 clients per day working 5 days a week on average. Fall said 4, but we'll make it 3 since it's her second year. We can only assume she'll keep increasing her business as the year goes by, a fair assessment.
3×160×5×48=115200 cash
Even if she gets 2 clients a day, she's making 40/h. Without a degree, that's very impressive to attain in Ottawa. Let's not include tax as her expense because we don't know how much she'll claim since it is not traceable. Whatever her miscellaneous expenses are is up to her and we can only make assumptions on what a average person consumes on a given year and deduct it from that. No point in doing so here. This is a good enough reasoning for her to make working as a agency girl. It is very possible that she can make this much money and I don't see why fall wouldn't think so. And again, because this line of work falls under the shady side of escorting, the actual numbers we may never attain. So again, we'll have to assume reasonably. Which is why most of us are doing here.
2) Can you agree that full time is 5 days a week? It's what most of us, especially government workers are getting. So this is all based on her working 5 days a week to get as many repeat business as she can.
3) For 3 clients a day is 3 hours of work a day. The rest of her time she must stay in the premise. Agreed? Reasonable?
4) I disputed some of his claims on SP vs MAs but bottom line is agency girls make much more then SPs when working 5 days a week with significantly more customer base and with increase business over given years of work.
The probability of attaining these numbers rely on the escort herself but with decent attitude, service and looks, it isn't far fetched. I hate looking at the fake escorts on Leolist and wander why they never disappeared! There must be enough clients to see her as a fake in order for her to make profit. And that's on the lowest end of the market spectrum. We're talking about the highest possible earners - agency girls.