Wondering how much surrogates get paid in Philadelphia? You are in the right place. This is the full picture: what you earn, what the complete package includes, when each payment arrives, and how your money is protected from day one.
Base pregnancy compensation at the Surrogacy Center of Philadelphia starts at $50,000 for first-time surrogates. Experienced surrogates, women who have completed at least one prior journey, receive $55,000 or more.
With allowances and benefits added, total packages typically reach $65,000 or more.
You receive your base pay in equal monthly installments from confirmed pregnancy through delivery. At $50,000 over roughly seven months of confirmed pregnancy plus other included allowances, that works out to about $7,100 per month, which escrow deposits straight into your account. That is the starting point for a first-time surrogate, not the ceiling.
Yes, your compensation arrives on a regular monthly schedule, with some payments landing at specific points in the journey.
You are never left waiting on someone to cut a check.
Base pregnancy pay is only part of what you receive. Your complete package covers:
Your legal contract spells out every item before any medical treatment begins.
Before you take a single medication, the intended parents fund an escrow account that covers your full projected compensation. We use SeedTrust Escrow, an independent, licensed, and insured escrow company, so a neutral third party holds your money from the very start.
SeedTrust releases each payment on the schedule in your contract, on specific dates tied to specific milestones. Neither the agency nor the intended parents can change that schedule. Your pay does not depend on anyone’s finances staying stable mid-journey. The money is already there, and it arrives when you agreed it would.
What if a transfer does not take or you miscarry? You earn pay for the work your body has done up to that point. You and the intended parents then decide together whether to continue.
You will see large national agencies, many of them out of state, advertising base numbers well above ours: $70,000, $80,000, sometimes more. It is worth understanding what those numbers really are. Inflated base compensation is a recruiting tool, and the cost passes straight to intended parents, which prices many local families out of surrogacy entirely.
We take a different approach. We pay fairly and explain every number honestly, and we keep surrogacy reachable for the families in our community. You are working with a local agency that knows you by name, not a huge national agency.
Our program focuses on surrogates across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, with most of our families right here in the Greater Philadelphia area. Your circumstances can shift the numbers slightly, including whether you have surrogacy-friendly health insurance and whether you have carried as a surrogate before. We will walk you through your specific numbers before anything is signed.
If you would like your own compensation estimate, start your application or reach out to Kaci Moore, our Recruitment and Intake Manager and a four-time surrogate herself.
