How much money do cosplayers make?

And a lot of income comes from merchandise sales. McCaskill estimates that “top tier” cosplayers might make around $70-125,000 a year. Breaking this down, if a cosplayer attends 26 conventions a year and sells 100 prints (a low number) per weekend for $20, thats $52,000 a year.

Is Cosplaying a career?

If you dont know it by now, cosplay is extremely popular. This trend was first picked up by students in Japan and the USA when anime and manga were introduced to the shops and television for the first time during the late 1970s.