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Speaker 1: Now, it turns out being an influencer is not quite

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Speaker 1: the dream career we all may have thought. According to IID,

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Speaker 1: only about sixty people in the country are working as

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Speaker 1: influencers full time and the average income is only about

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Speaker 1: forty six thousand dollars a year and our context for context,

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Speaker 1: the minimum wage full time can earn forty eight thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars a year. Melanie Spencer is co founder and CEO

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Speaker 1: of marketing agency Thompson Spencer and with us. Hey Melanie, Hello, Heather,

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Speaker 1: how are you. I'm very well, Thank you? Does it

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Speaker 1: surprise you? Did you already know that these people weren't

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Speaker 1: really on the big dollars?

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Speaker 2: This information surprises me, to be honest, because we know

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Speaker 2: of influencers earning a lot more than that, and often

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Speaker 2: they supplement their salary for influencer content. So I'm just

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Speaker 2: not sure about the accuracy of this information.

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Speaker 1: Are they well? This raises the question, are the influencer

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Speaker 1: you're aware of paying their taxes?

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Speaker 2: They are? They are?

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Speaker 1: How much is the So give me the top dollar

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Speaker 1: that you're aware of an influencer earning.

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Speaker 2: Oh, look, we have influencers earning well over ten thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars per piece of content, and that kind of equates.

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Speaker 2: We've got an influencer that's earned already forty two thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars this year, and that's you know, we're only halfway through,

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Speaker 2: so you know they are earning a lot more for sure.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but again, if we're sort of like we're coming

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Speaker 1: up three quarters the way through the year, they've earned

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Speaker 1: forty two thousand, and then we're looking at them maybe

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Speaker 1: earning seventy to eighty thousand. Right, Still not Kardashian all stuff,

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Speaker 1: is it?

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Speaker 2: It's still not Kardashian levels. But there are some some

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Speaker 2: influences that we know of that are earning in the hundreds.

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Speaker 1: For Are we counting all the free stuff they get

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Speaker 1: as well, like the swimming pools and all that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff.

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Speaker 2: Probably not, probably not, but they do. They do have

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Speaker 2: to state when when they get free stuff, and it

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Speaker 2: is it is one hundred percent rule when they put

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Speaker 2: content up whether they've been gifted something interesting.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Melanie, thank you appreciate it. Melanie Spencer, co founder

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Speaker 1: and CEO of Tom Suspencer. For more from Heather Duplessy,

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