How Much Money Do Hypnotists Earn?

How Much Money Do Hypnotists Earn?

A True Story:

In 1972 I was sitting in a Thursday night Business Education 424 class taught by Dr. E. Edward Harris at Northern Illinois University, in DeKalb, Illinois.

My friend Chuck Miller was sitting next to me. Since we would both be receiving our degrees in Business Education soon, I asked Chuck if he had any idea of how much High School business education teachers earn.

Chuck said he had no idea. A few months later when Dr. Harris offered Chuck a high school teaching position at Chuck’s Alma Mater, Dundee Community High School, did Chuck find out what he was working toward the last four years of college.

During his senior year, Chuck worked weekends at a real estate company in Dundee, Illinois.

When Chuck compared his earning for the year with the potential earnings from teaching he faced a dilemma

Chuck’s earnings from his weekend job were exactly 3 times a teacher’s annual salary.
After all the work, the blood, sweat and tears of obtaining a degree and dedication toward his goal, Chuck’s dream was dashed with the reality of what real jobs pay.

Chuck decided to not go into the teaching field and built a successful real-estate business.

Many of us wonder, “How much can I earn as a hypnotist? I see those guys in Vegas or I see them on television. “They must earn a ton of money.”

Hypnotist’s earnings are all over the place. Since the field is so small of working stage hypnotists and even clinical hypnotherapists, I can only speak from the hypnotists who have shared that information with me over the years and my own personal income. I have been hypnotizing audiences since 1977 and have hypnotized people to overcome problems and achieve goals.

Most Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists make absolutely nothing.

This is usually because once they go to classes and come home. Once home, they do not feel like they are any different from before they left for Certification classes.

They lose their confidence and their ambition to succeed in hypnosis.

My estimate is that over 95% of trained hypnotists and hypnotherapists never go beyond hypnotizing their spouses or immediate friends.

Therefore, most hypnotists make absolutely nothing.

Now for the good news

For the small percentage of hypnosis students who decide to brave the big bad world, rewards can be fantastic.

I know some hypnotists who earn less than $40,000 per year, and I know hypnotists who earn over $500,000 a year.

Most, but not all of the hypnotists earning over $500,000 a year perform on stage. They also sell books, tapes, CDs and other products that contribute to their total income.

Hypnotherapists or professional hypnotists

Hypnotherapists, (most do not have Masters Degrees from Regionally Accredited Universities) so they legally cannot call themselves “therapists.” Most practicing hypnotherapists today are Baby Boomers who may have been political science or business majors in college.

You can call yourself a Professional Hypnotist, however, regardless of your educational background.

Many very successful hypnotherapists have never attended a single day of college but most have a year or two.

Two of the most successful professional hypnotists in history, Dave Elman and Ormond McGill, were only high school graduates. Ormond spent 78 years in the field of hypnosis and worked up until he died at 92 years of age.

Both trained thousands of professional hypnotists, psychologists, and medical doctors the fine art of hypnotism.

Life experiences and desire to help other people are more important than college courses.

How do I Earn the Big Money as A Hypnotist?

Regardless of where you find yourself in total earnings, it will always be a function of marketing your services. You need to learn how to market in order to be successful. I have only known one professional stage hypnotist who earns more than $500,000 a year and has a single agent working for him.

I have never used an agent for booking stage shows as I want to be a part of all of the negotiations, however I do work with agents for the corporate market as the budgets are much larger than the high schools and college markets I serve.

In my Professional Hypnotist Training course, that I present on-one-one, I spend considerable time, walking you through the steps of how to market yourself as a hypnotist, how to get clients or bookings, and how to accomplish your mission with minimal marketing costs.

I show you how to begin part time. In fact, I only work part time because speaking fees are quite large, especially in the University and Corporate Markets.

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Summary:

Always find out how much money you can earn, before you invest in a new career. My friend Chuck spent four years studying in college, had a straight “A” average in his field, and just before graduating decided that his part-time job, offered him a better living then his desired field of study.

If you desire to enter the field of hypnosis, you need someone to take your hand and lead you through every step in developing your client base or teaching you how to book your own hypnosis shows.

It is hard work, but you can make your own schedule and earn many times what you will earn in traditional jobs. And you may be able to contribute to the wellbeing of society well up into your 90’s.

“My mission in life is to help you achieve your mission in life.”

Wayne F. Perkins

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