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The Economics of Escorting in NYC

 By OrientalNY When Maria first started working as an escort four years ago, she thought the hardest part would be the actual appointments. She was wrong. The hardest part, she discovered, was learning to think of herself as a business. "Nobody teaches you this stuff," she said when we met at a wine bar in the West Village. "You just figure it out as you go, and you make expensive mistakes along the way." The money in escorting can be staggering, especially in a city like New York where wealthy clients are abundant and willing to pay premium rates. Maria charges eight hundred dollars for an hour, fifteen hundred for two hours, and three thousand for an overnight. On paper, if she saw just three clients a week, she'd be making over three hundred thousand dollars a year. But the reality, as Maria explained while we shared a plate of olives, is far more complicated than simple multiplication. "People see those rates and think we're all rich," she said...