Local providers, please know your self. Do not think you are good/beautiful enough to charge what ever you feel is right. You must ask yourself, do you turn heads in public? Do you stop traffics? Do you get 9-10 in your reviews? If you yes, by all means charge high. Many of us are willing and able to stop traffic and say "hi" to you. If you look average, charge average. If you look below average, charge below average. If you look below average or just average, make up for your lost in the service department. This will help your business. Remember happy costumer come back.

Now the question is, what is below average, average, and high? In my humble opinion in Minneapolis, below average=150, average=250, high=300. Since traveling ladies with looks of 8-10 and performances of 8-10 only charge 300-400. I did a search for looks and performances of 8-10 in the Twin Cities board and found very, very few locals and yet most if not all locals charge 300+. Off course, there are few very bad travelers also. No reputations or review. Those are con-artists, switch and bait.

From my experience, although there are very few great local providers, most are less than favorable when compare to traveling providers. I have too many bad experiences with locals and too much good experience with travelers. This is not the case where the grass is greener on the other side. However, this MAY be the case where we local hobbyists are exposed to the very best that other cities have to offer and we like it. This may be the reason why more and more traveling ladies are coming back and more often because they got your business.

Local Providers, please know your selves. Although, I like to support my local talents as much as I can, my math is not so good at this. Look less than 6 performance less than 5 charging 300 does not add up in my book. I'm sorry. I must be a happy customer--see traverling ladies.
My 2 cents.