11 thoughts on “Pimping Profits”

  1. Am I reading this graphic correct: the mean yearly salary for an Atlanta pimp is $1.7 million? I find that hard to believe.

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  2. It isn’t salary – it is revenue (I went to the Justice Policy Center site), but it still seems awfully high. I didn’t see anything about median (given pretty cursory scan), which is odd. It seems that if we take the interviews seriously (they don’t seem to have lots of working girls) then there should be a serious skew, so median should be more informative. I’m not going to invest time in trying to figure it out.

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  3. Actually – at an average of 5 working girls, required to make $1000 a night, you hit that number for revenue. That requires the women hit the number every night of the year – no days off at all. But I also saw references to women required to earn $500-$1000, so it may still be high.

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    1. The average is going to drop. Thanks to Obamacare, pimps are keeping prostitutes under 30 hours a week.

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  4. And you have EXPENSES. Gotta buy a coyote fur coat, and keep the Caddy shined. Bribes to get the women out of trouble. The right brand of cognac. It adds up!

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    2. Even if they were taking home just 10% of their revenue they’d still be making around $175k which is more than my dual earner professional household brings in. If pimping was that good of a business, there would be way more people doing it.

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      1. Oh, I agree, it isn’t very believable. But they are claiming an average of 5 women/pimp required to bring in $1000/day for Atlanta. Somewhere else had an average of 9 women/pimp but lower weekly earnings. I don’t necessarily think pimps are the most…honest…respondents.

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      2. And this is my annoyance with places like CNN, Slate, the Atlantic. None of them bothered to multiply it out and ask about it. Almost $2M a year? Really? The report doesn’t seem to discusses yearly income either. Did they really not think about it? No one at the institute thought ‘wow, that seems really high’ or ‘wow I’m in the wrong line of work’? Where I work, we would be expected to at least have a footnote saying this implies a yearly income of almost $2m and we tried to verify that against the following other sources and here are the results of our verification attempts. I didn’t see that in my (admittedly cursory) read and brief search attempts in the doc.

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  5. An Atlanta pimp can buy a Tesla. A New Jersey pimp won’t be able to thanks to free-market champion Christie and his government-mandated middle-man for automotive sales.

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  6. Kind of like the Atlantic article on SAT testing, in which the author asks why there isn’t a “100 percentile”? I’m looking forward to whether just getting the numbers right (or in the ballpark) will have any impact on anyone other than math junkies (ala Nate Silver).

    The report seems reasonable, if I were to actually read it, but the reporting on the topic is awful. I noted the same thing about the Lanza interview, where the long interview is collapsed into “I wish he’d never been born” and “He would have killed me in an instant”.

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