Do prostitutes have low incomes? Demystify the gold-sucking abilities of ancient high-ranking prostitutes! 】
There is an immutable "law of two and eight" in every industry, and 20% of people's income accounts for 80% of the total income of the entire industry, and the ancient industry of prostitutes is no exception. High-class prostitutes are always more competitive than ordinary prostitutes, so they are more attractive and can always attract male customers who are willing to spend money on them. According to a reader's letter in the 19th-century "Declaration", someone once spent 10,000 taels of silver for Wu Yue, a high-ranking prostitute at that time, and redeemed another high-ranking prostitute, Xiao Guizhu, with 8,000 taels.
It is conceivable that there is no shortage of high-class prostitutes who are willing to spend money for them, and what is their income?
First of all, we must make it clear that the status of high-ranking prostitutes is higher than that of ordinary prostitutes, they are not slaves to their mothers, they have an employment relationship with their mothers, and the brothels pay them wages every quarter. Generally speaking, novices (i.e., high-level prostitutes who have not lost their virginity, mostly before the age of 15) can get a salary of 100 yuan per quarter, while other high-level prostitutes can get a salary of three or four hundred yuan.
In contrast, other maids, servants, etc., are only paid three or four yuan per month.
Secondly, high-level prostitutes also have a KPI task, to complete a certain number of flowers every quarter, that is, how many male customers to recruit, in general, the brothel will set a high-level prostitute to recruit 100 to 200 customers per quarter. The income from these flowers is divided between the brothel and the high-ranking prostitute, which is generally 65:35 or 70:30, of course, some of the more famous high-ranking prostitutes can negotiate to change the proportion. If a high-ranking prostitute fails to meet such targets, she also has to pay for the shortage of money to supply the brothel herself.
The way to attract customers is like setting up a banquet, setting up a gambling table, etc., but the price of each table banquet is 14 yuan, the high-level prostitute has to return 10 yuan to the brothel, and the remaining 4 yuan is shared by the prostitute herself and the servant, and finally the high-level prostitute can only get 1 yuan; for the gambling game, the brothel does not charge money, each gambling game income is about 12 yuan, 7 yuan is the high-level prostitute's own, the rest is distributed to the servants, if the high-level prostitute has no customers to play, High-level prostitutes have to pay a total of $12 for 6 gambling games like brothel operators.
Finally, in fact, the main income of high-level prostitutes is to go on business trips, which is equivalent to going out to accompany customers. However, because the time of each trip is very short, high-level prostitutes only stop by the male customers for a few minutes and then leave, and because the places of communication are in one area, some high-level prostitutes can have fifty or sixty times a night, with an average difference of 2 to 3 yuan per hall, or even higher. In the 20th century, an average of 1,000 yuan per quarter for a well-known high-ranking prostitute could earn between 200 yuan and 600 yuan.
Do you think the high-class prostitutes of the time had high incomes?
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