Depends on the promoter, the couple I know as acquaintances looking for guys to promote their promotion (small shows, nothing big) almost to the point of it being a ring kissing ritual; Basically scouting for teams who are willing to ..."play ball".
Honestly, any career is better than the fight game as a career. The guys who make it big have it through sponsorships, and marketing, they're the exception not the rule. Pros at my old gym when they started out were making $300 to show, $600 if they win. Some smaller orgs don't even float the travel or hotel bill so that came out of them. Plus it gets harder when you're not local, some desperados have no standards that they're willing to fight to win for $300, whereas you're more expensive because you need to be flown out, so they take the local guy.
If you manage to make $1000+ then you've kinda hit the lottery as a new pro. Then you gotta pay 10% to your coach, another 10 to the promoter, manager, etc. Some folks cheap out and have their coach as their manager and its usually a fiasco. And its a whole other topic on having the right team behind you, and not some greedy chump looking to squeeze you out and move on to a younger, hungrier prospect down the line.
So yeah the pay's usually garbage, you can prob make $18/hr as a general labourer which is way more than what you get fighting in the early days of your career.
