Sperm and egg donor pay
18 sperm banks and 11 known-donor agencies, plus 127 egg clinics, banks, and agencies. Site-published monthly figures are checked against the program's own site. Email-only sperm pay is labeled on the bank card and left off the monthly list.
Sperm
18 banks and 11 known-donor agencies. Verified September–October 2026.
Monthly max
Eggs
127 clinics, banks, and agencies. Verified September 30–October 3, 2026.
First cycle
Published monthly ceilings run from $500–600 at Fertility Center of California to $2,400 at California Cryobank. Per-donation amounts are on each bank card. Headline ceilings assume frequent attendance, and several banks defer part of each donation until samples clear the FDA quarantine. California Cryobank's walk-out label is Biweekly check.
Read: How sperm bank pay actually works →Age, height, and education are each bank's published label. Seattle Sperm Bank has no published height rule. Fairfax Cryobank has a 5'8" minimum. Midwest Sperm Bank has a 5'10" minimum; the Oct 1 2026 email did not restate that height floor. The main bottleneck is sperm surviving the freeze/thaw process.
Read: Sperm donor requirements, compared →At traditional FDA-registered banks, anonymous donation follows the tissue rule for men who have sex with men. That rule is not the blood-donation rule. The Seed Scout and MySpermBank both explicitly welcome gay and bisexual donors, and known or directed donation is the general path.
Read: Which banks accept gay men as donors →CryoGam still does not publish donor pay. Cryobio's per-donation label is $85. Per collection · up to $115 with baby + adult photo release. Midwest Sperm Bank's per-donation label is $100. Per frozen sample · $50 at freeze, remainder at release. Those figures are email-only. They stay off the monthly chart, and a monthly total is not derived from them.
Read: Highest paying vs. easiest to join →Commitment length is on each bank's profile. Several banks also wait until release testing after the last sample. That wait is not a guarantee you stay active the whole time: banks retire donors once they've banked enough vials or hit a family limit. The Seed Scout's profile describes a shorter, per-family arrangement.
Read: How sperm bank pay actually works →Treat it as yes. Banks that discuss tax forms say they issue a 1099 and withhold nothing. The reporting threshold is the one that bank states. Confirm the specifics with a CPA — we don't give tax advice.
There is no single US rate, and DonorIndex does not publish an average. A program states pay as a flat amount per completed cycle, a range, a floor, or a ceiling. In the directory, the highest first-cycle ceiling is $50,000, at Asian Egg Bank and Lotus Donor Bank. Idaho Center for Reproductive Medicine's first-cycle label is $5,000 per cycle and its repeat label is $8,000 per cycle; that profile is a staff response, and the donor page does not publish the stipend.
Read: How egg donor pay works
Egg donor pay, comparedThe egg directory lists 127 clinics, banks, and agencies, each linked to that program’s own donor page. A program with no published first-cycle figure is labeled Not published.
Egg donor programsIn the egg directory, the highest first-cycle ceiling is $50,000: Asian Egg Bank ($10,000–$50,000 per cycle) and Lotus Donor Bank ($10,000–$50,000 per cycle). Programs that are not in the directory are not ranked on this page.
There is no single rulebook. Age, BMI, and prior-pregnancy rules are the fields on each program's profile. The requirements guide reads those fields.
Read: Egg donor requirements
The LGBTQ guide reads each donor page's own wording on orientation and gender identity. A page that publishes an inclusive statement says so. A page that says nothing is not a published yes and not a published ban. A line that says “women” or “female” is not a published policy on trans donors.
An agency or clinic recruits donors and handles compensation, insurance, and the contract. A known donor is someone the intended parents already know, usually a friend or relative. ASRM says directed oocyte donors must have the same screening as nondirected donors. Fertility Centers of Illinois says separate legal representation cannot be waived. Known donors are often unpaid, though that varies by program. The site’s known-donor page is an editorial orientation, not an egg price list.
Read: Egg program vs known donor
Known donorThe US Tax Court in Perez v. Commissioner (2015) held that egg donation payments were taxable compensation for services, not excludable physical-injury damages. Programs that mention a form mostly say they issue “a 1099” and do not say whether it is a 1099-MISC or a 1099-NEC. Not receiving a form does not by itself make the money nontaxable. This is not tax advice.