OFM salary and earnings: what is public

Search for OFM salary and you get confident numbers from sites that have no data. This chapter gives what is actually published, says what each figure is worth, and then lists plainly what nobody publishes at all.

7.1Four different questions, one phrase

OFM salary is asked by four people who want four answers: someone applying for a chatter job, someone considering an account manager role at an agency, someone thinking of starting an agency, and a creator wondering what is normal. The evidence base is different in each case, and only the last one has audited figures behind it.

7.2Chatter pay: documented, but as offers, not averages

This is the most documented layer, because the jobs are advertised in public. The full table is in chapter 4. The short version: live listings read on 14 September 2026 offered between 1 and 3.50 dollars an hour with commission, 450 dollars a month plus 5 percent, and commission only deals between 10 and 20 percent of what the chatter sells^[10]. Journalism puts the floor lower: the BBC reported in March 2026 a worker "earning under $2 per hour and working an 8hr shift five days a week"^[4], and Fortune reported 3 dollars an hour with shifts of up to 12 hours, six days a week, in 2024^[5].

None of that is an average. It is a set of offers, in different countries, at different dates, in a job with no standard definition. Read it as a range of what is being offered, not as what the job pays.

7.3Agency and manager income: almost nothing is public

For what an agency earns, there is exactly one independent source we could find, and it documents contracts rather than income: journalists reviewing OnlyFans management agency contracts reported commissions "commonly around 50%, with some rising as high as 70%" of creator earnings^[3]. From that you can compute what an agency takes on a given account, which is chapter 2, but not what it keeps after wages, traffic and tax, which nobody reports.

For salaried roles inside an agency, account manager, setter, team lead, we found no fetchable, credible published figure at all. Everything that looked like data turned out to be an agency recruitment page or a tool vendor's blog. This handbook does not reprint those.

7.4Creator earnings: the only audited numbers in the chain

Because OnlyFans is operated by a UK company that must file accounts, the top of the funnel is genuinely documented. The figures below are from the filed report for the year ended 30 November 2024.

Figure	FY2024	FY2023
Gross payments processed	$7.2 bn	$6.6 bn
Group revenue	$1.413 bn	$1.307 bn
Profit before tax	$0.684 bn	$0.658 bn
Creator accounts	4,634,000	4,118,000
Fan accounts	377,456,000	305,066,000

Source: Fenix International Limited, Annual Report and Consolidated Financial Statements for the year ended 30 November 2024, filed at Companies House on 27 August 2025^[1]. The accounts print this caveat immediately above the account numbers: "Total account numbers refer to the accounts created on OnlyFans that have not been deleted by the user or deactivated by the platform to date." These are cumulative registered accounts, not active users.

Two derived figures, and we label them derived because they are our arithmetic on published numbers, not lines in the accounts. Gross payments minus group revenue gives roughly 5.8 billion dollars flowing to creators in the year. Dividing that by 4,634,000 creator accounts gives about 1,250 dollars per account per year, or about 105 dollars a month.

Why that average is misleading

It is a mean across every account ever created and not deleted, most of which almost certainly earned nothing at all in the year. Earnings on a platform like this are heavily concentrated, so a mean tells you about the total, not about a typical creator. The median is the number that would answer the question people are asking, and it is not published by anyone. We show the arithmetic because the inputs are public and the calculation is frequently done badly elsewhere, not because the result describes anyone's income.

One thing to watch: the next set of accounts, for the year ended 30 November 2025, had not been filed when we read the register on 14 September 2026, and the company was flagged as accounts overdue^[2]. Figures for that year circulating online cannot currently be sourced to a filing.

7.5Why salary aggregators fail on this job

The usual reflex is to check a salary site. For this occupation the results are not weak, they are empty, and the sites do not say so loudly enough.

Talent.com publishes 31,800 dollars a year for OnlyFans chatter in the United States. The sample size printed on the page is one salary^[7].
The same site, for the plain title chatter in the United States, publishes zero, based on zero salaries^[8].
Its French page for OnlyFans manager gives an average of 26,000 euros a year^[9], attributed to a generic sample of 10,000 salaries, which for a job title this specific almost certainly means the engine matched ordinary manager roles.
Glassdoor and ZipRecruiter salary pages for these titles could not be read at all, so nothing from them appears here.

The reason is structural. There is no occupational code for this job in the French, British or American classifications, so no statistics office collects it, and aggregators build on job titles that employers avoid writing plainly.

7.6The list of what is not public

Stated plainly, because the absence is the finding and because a site that cannot say "unknown" will eventually invent something.

No government dataset. No statistics office publishes a wage series or occupational category for chatters or OFM managers.
No trade body. There is no association of OFM agencies publishing rate cards, salary surveys or benchmarks.
No agency accounts. Almost no agency in this sector publishes financial statements; the ones that exist as companies file the minimum their jurisdiction requires.
No median creator earnings. The platform publishes totals and account counts, never a distribution.
No turnover figure for chatters. Widely discussed, never documented.
No independent comparison of chatting models. Human, hybrid and automated: no controlled study, see chapter 6.

7.7What to do instead of looking up a salary

If you are considering a chatter job, the useful numbers are in the posting itself: the base, the commission percentage, what it is a percentage of, the shift length and the payment schedule. A posting that gives a monthly range without naming the commission base is not telling you what you will earn.

If you are pricing an agency, work from your own account data and the published platform rates in chapter 2, and from the cost of coverage in chapter 4. There is no benchmark to compare yourself against, so build the arithmetic rather than search for a number. And if you see a tidy table of typical OFM salaries anywhere, look for the source line underneath it. In every case we checked, there was not one.