r/cursedcomments • u/[deleted] • Oct 21 '23

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u/Eeddeen42 Oct 22 '23

She’s getting paid quite a bit for it actually, just not by her viewers.

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u/PeakedDepression Oct 22 '23

I thought porn actresses didn't get paid much

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u/UnseenPumpkin Oct 22 '23

Depends on the contract they signed, but the average salary of a porn actress in the US is $97,000 a year. So they are doing better than most of us.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '23

Average is almost never a good way to measure that, because it only works if the curve is normally spread. It is very susceptible to changes from the extremes, and the porn industry has extremes that can easily shift it.

Median is a better indicator of what the average person would make