Promoting trust in the fetish community since 2001. Figures, sources, dates.
You wear one set of clothes a day. Each item needs one to three days of wear. So you get 10 to 30 items a month — one person can only wear so much. More buyers do not change that. Working longer does not change that. The only thing you can still change is the price.
Wear time × one body. A physical limit, not a market estimate. Checked
The question
What pays best for the hours I put in? That is not the same question as what sells. The two have different answers.
What is left per sale after the site keeps 15 %, at a $35 and a $75 price. The big number assumes you sell 30 items every single month, at the price only a seller with a name gets. Assumes full capacity
What that limit means for you
The limit is the point here, not the amount. Selling worn underwear cannot pay a full-time wage, no matter how well it goes — and that is already true before one single buyer says no.
Our maths: items per month × what is left per sale × 12. Assumes full capacity
One question sorts them: can you make more of it without spending more of your own time?
The three groups
Group 1 · limited by your body
Your own wearing time is the bottleneck. Every item costs you a day of wear. So this whole group stays under the limit of 10 to 30 items a month. Here you only grow by raising the price. You never grow by selling more.
Group 2 · not tied to your body
Buyers pay for the size, the brand, the fit, or for exactly what they asked for. They do not pay for how long you wore it. That cuts the link to your wearing time, and it is still a real thing you post. Bras are also the one item of this kind that the big sites allow.
Group 3 · sell it as often as you like
A file. You make it once and you can sell the same file to any number of buyers. You are paid for the work once, and every sale after that costs you nothing.
Groups per the category axis “does it scale”. Checked
The boxes above make the point. This table gives you the detail. It is built to be read one column at a time, so on a phone you swipe it sideways inside its own box. The page itself never slides sideways.
| What you sell | Group | Your time | Cost to you per extra sale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Panties | Your body limits it | Medium | $16.93 |
| Socks | Your body limits it | Low | $16.93 |
| Tights | Your body limits it | Low | $16.93 |
| Shoes | Your body limits it | High | $16.93 or more |
| Sportswear | Your body limits it | Low | $16.93 |
| Bras | Not tied to your body | Low | $16.93 |
| Photos made to order | Not tied to your body | High | Nothing, but made to order |
| Photos of your feet | Sell it any number of times | Low | Nothing |
| Photo sets | Sell it any number of times | Medium | Nothing |
| Video | Sell it any number of times | High | Nothing |
| Voice recordings / ASMR | Sell it any number of times | Medium | Nothing |
| Fart audio | Sell it any number of times | Low | Nothing |
| Rating dick pics | Sell it any number of times | Very low | Nothing |
| Voice messages | Sell it any number of times | Low | Nothing |
| Chat / sexting | Paid by the hour | High | Your time, every single sale |
| Findom | Paid by the hour | Medium | Your time, every single sale |
| Domination | Paid by the hour | Medium | Your time, every single sale |
| Girlfriend experience | Paid by the hour | Very high | Your time, every single sale |
| Live cam | Paid by the hour | High | Your time, every single sale |
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Every sale costs you $16.93: $6.93 to post it, plus about $10 for the item itself. The $6.93 is the price you pay through Click-N-Ship, not at the post office counter — USPS Notice 123, Commercial, under 1 lb. Checked
The thing that pays best per hour is nobody’s dream job. The thing with the biggest audience pays the least.
Nobody waits for you. You answer when you feel like it, it takes minutes, and you may reuse the same wording. No appointment, no face, no address. It is the cheapest thing on this page and still the best pay per hour — because nothing about it is scheduled.
$5–25 written, ~$30 for a video reaction. Named as the best-scaling category on the scaling axis. Checked
More people watch this than anything else on the list. And the pay is 99 cents an hour — half of everyone doing it earns less than that. A big audience and good pay are two different things, and here they point in opposite directions.
Every single person on the platform was counted: 123,674 performers, 956,662 streams. Full citation in the reference list, no. 1. Checked
The study only counted the time on camera. Getting ready, chatting and promoting yourself are not in it. Say two unpaid hours for every hour on camera: then it drops to 33 cents an hour. The lowest legal wage in the US is $7.25 an hour.
The 99 cents an hour is measured. The 33 cents is our own sum, at two unpaid hours per paid hour. Nobody measured that ratio. We assume it, and we say so. Checked Modelled
The number somebody measured
Every single person on the platform was counted. This was not a survey and not a small sample. We show the number once, here, and only as something to compare against — live cam is not what this page is about.
Jokubauskaitė & Peeters — every performer on the platform counted. Checked
The same number, once you count the unpaid hours
This assumes two unpaid hours for every paid hour. With one unpaid hour it is $0.49. With three it is $0.25. We show you the assumption, because the assumption is what moves the number.
$0.99 ÷ (1 + 2). Our own sum. Nobody has measured how many unpaid hours it really takes. Modelled
Not “they earn a bit”. The site only pays out once you have earned $50. Most never get that far, so the money never reaches them.
They earn money and the site records it. It just never reaches their bank account, because the site only pays out from $50 up. That is how the payment rule is built. It is not about being bad at it, and no clever way of writing your ads changes it.
Every performer counted: 123,674; the site pays out from $50. Checked
That is the number the recruiting posts show you as normal. In truth only about 2 people in every 100 get there. Everyone was counted, so this is not a guess.
Same count of everyone. Half of them earn less than $11.45 a week. Checked
Where the tips go · the longer the bar, the bigger the share
Every performer counted: 123,674. The best paid tenth take more than 69 % of all tips. The lower half, all of them together, get under 1 %. Checked
We show you three kinds of seller instead of one average. An average is true and useless, because nobody is average.
Three kinds of seller
Type 1 · Doing it on the side · about half of all sellers
They start with things you can sell over and over — rating dick pics, photo sets — because there is no address to give out, no postage to pay and no post office rule about smell to worry about. Nothing physical leaves the house, so nothing physical can go wrong.
Live cam, this group: half earn less than $1.73 an hour on camera, or $0.58 once you count two unpaid hours per paid hour. Live-cam data
Type 2 · Weekends · about a quarter
They pick one thing that needs their own wearing time, sell as many as their body allows, and charge more than $28.22 so the sale is not a loss. Then they add one thing that is not tied to their body — bras, photos made to order — where buyers pay for the fit or for exactly what they asked for. These are the sellers the sums further down are written for.
Live cam, this group: half earn less than $4.49 an hour on camera, or $1.50 with the unpaid hours counted — still under the $7.25 lowest legal wage. Live-cam data
Type 3 · Doing it full time · roughly the best paid tenth
They build up a shelf of files they can sell again and again, so the work is paid for once and sold many times. And they get the buyers they already have to come back, instead of hunting for new ones. The growth comes from the person who has already bought.
Live cam, this group: half earn less than $14.03 an hour on camera. The very best 1 in 100 reach $57.61. Live-cam data
How many people are in each group, and the hourly pay, come from counting everyone. Which things each group sells is our own reasoning from the three groups and the price you need to break even. Checked Structure transferred, amounts not
Two numbers that get passed around wrongly, and the sums behind our advice.
What people say
FeetFinder has 8 million users
What is true
About 800,000 visits a month, measured
Measured visits, against what the company says about itself. Ten times smaller. So the hard part here is getting seen, not making the stuff. Checked
What people say
Files only pay off once you sell lots of them
Files are ahead on the very first sale
Our maths: every physical sale costs you $16.93 before you earn a cent. A file costs you nothing. Selling more only widens a lead that is already there on sale number one. Our maths
What you must charge to come out even, if the site keeps 0, 15 or 40 % of the price. Most beginners ask $25–35 for one day of wear. If the site keeps 40 %, the bottom third of those prices loses you money. Checked
How much of the price you actually keep
With a file you keep the same share at every price, because a file costs you nothing to send. With a real item the share depends on the price. That is why selling cheap physical items is the worst deal on the market.
What is left after the site’s cut, the postage, the item itself and 35 % for tax. The 35 % comes from the Vice calculation. Nobody has checked it. Assumes 35 % tax
If what you sell needs your own wearing time, extra hours buy you nothing. The items simply do not exist: one body, one set of clothes a day. So what stops you is the calendar, not how hard you try. The only thing left to change is the price per item.
That is why we send you two ways: charge more, and move sideways into the things you can sell over and over, where you do the work once and sell it many times.
There is a US law that makes you keep records and give an address if you sell explicit material. It only applies to pictures showing the genitals, the anus or the pubic area, or sex and masturbation. Breasts do not count. Feet do not count. Clothed does not count.
So the things that pay best per hour on this page — photos of your feet, rating dick pics, clothed photo sets, voice recordings — fall outside that law completely. No copies of your ID to keep, nobody named as record keeper, no address on file. That is a real reason they are the easiest way in, and it is written in law, not our opinion.
Fewer people search for this every year. Searches for “feet pics” are down 18.3 % in a year, “used panties” down 5.2 %. So the easy way in is closing from both sides: fewer buyers looking, and more sellers competing for them.
That is not a reason to stay out. It is a reason not to count on more buyers arriving. Pick the things that still have value later: a shelf of files you own keeps earning, a worn item is sold once and gone.
Rating dick pics: strangers send you naked pictures you did not ask for. If one of them turns out to be under 18, it is you, the person who received it, who can be charged. The best-paying thing on this page comes with that attached, and no amount of good pay removes it.
Voice recordings — fart audio, ASMR, voice messages — are easy to sell again and again, but they give away something you can never change: your voice identifies you like a fingerprint. That is what the next page is about, and it is why good pay is not the only thing to weigh up. → Who can find you
This page answers one question. Four more decide whether that answer still holds once a real buyer turns up.