How Much Do You Get For Donating Sperm

How Much Do You Get For Donating Sperm

 

So how much could you get paid for donating sperm?
Maybe you heard one of your female friends talk about how much she got paid
for donating her eggs, and you thought, well, hey, you know, I got good material.
I'm made of good stuff.
Let me donate my sperm and see about getting paid, too.
Well, you'll get paid something and not what your friend got.
Let's talk about it.
What's up?
I'm Carlendos Scott, and I am an assisted reproduction attorney in Los Angeles.
And I've dedicated my practice to helping people grow their family through assisted
reproductive technologies like sperm donation.
And in this episode,
we're going to talk about just that sperm donation and getting paid.
We'll talk about how much sperm donors get per donation.
We'll discuss how many times a donor can
donate, and we'll also talk about some nonmonetary benefits of donating sperm.
Let's jump in.
All right, here's the skinny.
Sperm banks are, like, 711s.
They're all over the place.
To be honest, it's a pretty huge market.
And it may sound like easy money, right?
Well, I'll blow you away even more.
Check this out.
Let's say you start donating at around age 18.
Well, in the lifespan or the career,
you could say, of a sperm donor, you could make as much as $264,000.
Wait, a cool quarter million for donating sperm?
Sure. But let's break that down.
You heard that, right?
If you start at 18 and you donate, let's say, several times each month,
it's possible to earn over a quarter million dollars.
That's by the numbers at least.
So we're saying we're looking at 18 to 40.
But most clinics only accept sperm donors between 18 and 35.
But, hey, just for the sake of our math
for you, let's stick to 40, and let's see how far we can get.
Starting at 18, you make around $1,000 a month.
If you donate maybe five to seven times

per month, or roughly that equates to 12,000 per year.
12,000 times 22 years.
Assuming you're able to regularly donate
from 18 to 40 years old, you got to stay fit.
That's $264,000, give or take.
All right, let's bring it back down to earth.
I hate to break it to you guys,
but the odds of getting into Harvard or Stanford are probably higher than your
chances of being accepted as a continual ongoing sperm donor at major paying sperm
banks like the California Cryobank or Fairfax Cryo Bank,
which still doesn't guarantee you get paid any higher than any other bank.
But let's just say you're the casual sperm donor.
Maybe a one off sperm donation could buy
you a Big Gulp insulated cup for your next house party.
Maybe a couple bags of chips.
Maybe a quarter keg of Miller Light or a half a keg of Butt Light.
I don't know.
It's not really the best route for beer money, let me tell you that.
But what should you do with this newfound wealth from your oneoff donation?
I don't know, maybe buy yourself a beard
grooming kit or an ice maker or a food processor.
I don't know.
Maybe grab some Adidas slides or a pair of wireless earbuds.

But that's about as far as you're going to get off of the money from one donation.
I know you're thinking,
but my female friend who donated her eggs, she was rich after she donated.
Well, we'll talk about that in a minute.

But it's never really about the money when we donate sperm.
Come on, guys.
We're altruistic, too, right?
So you have to think about the other reasons around sperm donations.
So let's get the elephant out of the room right now.
It's not about the money. To be honest.
Men either don't get paid, or they get paid so little
that the process itself won't even make the money or be worth the time
and inconvenience that it took you to go make a donation.
So why do men still do it?
I truly believe it's out of altruism.
We're inherently altruistic.
People like that.
Maybe I'm saying this because it's guy code, but I think it's fair.
But seriously,

let's look at the altruistic or the other benefits outside of monetary compensation.

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Okay, let's look at the other benefits. All right?
And I'm going to give you these benefits with a straight face.
And I don't want you laughing either, because I'm very serious about this.
I'm not a doctor, but I learned this from one.
Okay, men donating your sperm.
Let's look at some of those benefits.
It strengthens your pelvic floor muscles,
which helps prevent erectile dysfunction or male incontinence.
It increases your level of cortisol, which helps raise your immune system.
Also, it's perhaps the best known source of stress relief.
When stress adds up over time, it can contribute long term health issues.
So you have options.
Also, you get compensated while getting these health benefits.
So while the money alone is not exactly
what you're in it for, it's a great thing to offset.
You're helping yourself, and you're helping others.
Now, let's be honest.
You want to know the dollar amount.
So let me just tell you.

It could potentially be around $65 a donation.
So that goes to show you it just may not
be worth your while if all you're in it for is the money.
Another benefit is you get free medical and psychological screenings.
Trust me, those things are expensive.
And that's an additional benefit that you get just from donating your sperm.
You get tested for HIV, the antibodies.
You get tested for chlamydia, tasax, gunnerea, and even syphilis.


So you're getting some free screenings.
There another benefit.
You get the chance to review your family
medical history, which allows you to understand what
potential risks you or any future children of yours may have to face.

And last but not least,
you get to help someone or a couple create or grow their family.
Like I said, it's never about the money.
And okay, back to that friend of yours who donated her eggs and what the deal is
and why she gets so much money and why you don't.
Well, what makes men different from women
when we're talking about donating genetic material is very simple.
They get paid so much money because it's
the process and risk that they put themselves through to retrieve or harvest
their eggs versus how men donate their sperm.
Let's face it.


Women go through intensive and long medical procedures in order to donate.
We get a cup.
So you do the math.
If you're watching this and you're
thinking about being a sperm donor, one of the things you better have in place
is a tight legal contract, a tight sperm donor contract,
because what you don't want to do is become a fossil inadvertently.
So what I'll do is put an email below so that you can reach out to me.
If this is you and you're thinking about
being a donor, you can reach out, and we can figure out if you need or what
you need to do legally to protect yourself while doing your sperm donation.
See you in the next episode.