hey what's up guys its your boy fresh pepper today I wanted to give you guys an
insight into how much models actually make okay so obviously not everyone's
going to be super model and you're not going to live a glamorous luxurious life
traveling around the world making millions of dollars so I'm here to give
you a realistic expectation of what you should make as a model alright so as I
said before I've been modeling for over 15 years and during my 15 years if I was
to guess how much I've actually made as a model I would say it's probably
somewhere around fifty to seventy-five thousand dollars so when you do the math
that's actually so when you do the math that's actually five thousand dollars a
year now five thousand dollars a year obviously it's not enough to make a
living so I've been doing modeling and acting part-time for over 15 years what
I do other stuff okay so let's talk about runway so typically when you do
runway shows the average that I've seen runway models get paid it's usually
around $400 per day and keep in mind per day could be anywhere from two hours in
a day or it could be as long as even twelve hours in a day
I've been part of a show where to call time was at 6:00 a.m. and we didn't wrap
till about 11:00 p.m. and I only got paid about $600 so it all depends on on
the client and how your agent negotiates that contract but the most I've gotten
paid for runway show was actually $800 and this was the show that I did for top
man in Chicago I got paid $800 and that's the most that I've gotten paid
for runway show and it was relatively short I was only on the set for about
two hours it was a quick and easy day for me okay so an e-commerce shoot an
e-commerce shoot is when you model and you shoot for specific clothing
companies that are sold online what I've seen is a flat rate usually I've gotten
paid anywhere from $2,000 to as high as $3,000 for e-commerce shoes and it's a
full day of shooting and trying different clothes and shooting
everything that's in the collection and then there's a web usage fee that is
associate with that so it's up to your agent to negotiate the web usage fee and
if there's any kind of renewal options after a year or two years and for
typical print shoots I've also seen it anywhere from 2,500 and up and that's
what you usually get as a flat rate and typically those don't usually have
renewal options because it's just a flat print shoot however if you were doing a
commercial print shoot I've seen it anywhere from eight thousand dollars and
above now commercial print shoots for example like if McDonald's wanted to do
an ad where they have a model eating a hamburger and put that in billboards or
magazines or other other means of printed ads they will do a buyouts
for a year or two year contract and usually your agents would negotiate
something like that where you get a flat rate and then you get a renewal option
after a year or two years and for every newel fee that renewal fee could be
anywhere from five hundred to two thousand dollars it all depends on your
agents and what they negotiate okay so TV commercials now TV commercials is the
bread and butter for anyone who's a model and actor because not only do you
get paid a flat race you also get residual payments which are paid out
every 13 weeks so typically if your aside after a union challenge there's a
flat rate for 1500 for commercials if it's local original use only you get
paid a thousand five hundred straight up and then you get paid 13 you get paid
every 13 weeks depending on how frequently the commercial is running if
it was a national commercial however guess what you've hit the bank because
you get paid a flat rate of $50,000 straight up and then you get residual
payments every 13 weeks which could be $2,000 or whatever depending on where
the commercial is running how often is run in and what's in the contract
all right so finally you could also get paid as a fit model when you're a fit
model what you do is that you go and visit designers and they sew their
garments according to your size so they've booked you for a specific reason
because you fit the size that they're building their collection for so it's a
lot of standing around and being still while designers are working around your
body and pushing pins through you which could be pretty painful
but so yeah so the fit model you can get paid as much as $350 to $400 a day I've
done fit modeling and it wasn't fun because it takes a lot of energy to just
stand still for hours and hours so it's definitely something for you to try out
if you just starting out your career because it's a good way for you to meet
designers and make a few bucks all right guys so I hope I answered your question
as always hit me up in the comments below and I'll try to get back to you as
soon as I can see you next time guys