Most female pornstars make any where from $500-2,500 a shoot, depending on how new they are to the buisness, their looks, the quality of the company they are shooting for, budget of production, etc. The girl making $500 is probably a crack ***** whose shooting for the first time on some really ****ty low budget online porn site, the girl making $2,000 will probably be well known (jenna haze) and be shooting for a big budget company like Vivid. Girls definitely get paid more to do super hardcore scenes like ass to mouth, gangbangs, etc. So depending on a girls' reputation and how many videos she shoots, a female pornstar can plausibly make any where from $75,000-$200,000 a year. That's not insane big money, but considering that most of these women are incredibly stupid, shallow, and psychologically/emotionally ****ed up, and have no other life skills, they are getting paid good money compared to working as a waitress, or in retail, or whatever they **** they would otherwise do. A great deal of women pornstars also work as expensive escorts on the side, so are basically just straight up prostitutes.
I hate to say it, but most of these girls have severe problems, are addicted to drugs, have serious issues from being raped/molested, and have psychological problems like borderline personality disorder. The more cynical side of me would say they are just ****ed up people, dirty filthy *****s that are getting paid to do what they would be anyways, and have no real value to contribute to the world other than sucking **** and getting ****ed in the ass.
Men in porn on the other hand don't get paid **** compared to the women, pretty much 1/3-1/2 of what the women are getting paid. An article I read that most guys in porn that get "work" regularly are making $30,000-40,000 a year. Guys don't get into porn for the money, they're in it for the sex, which is obvious. I think it's kinda weak in a way, but considering that a lot of these guys are ****ing the **** out of hot ass 9's and 10's and getting paid for it, while a lot of guy's are paying for that "privledge", it's understandable. Also, I've heard that a lot of guys who do straight porn, are bi-sexual and do gay porn on the side because it pays way better.