Who runs your account, and what we don't do
Your inbox is handled by a remote team in Latin America, coordinated from Mexico City. No chatter touches an account before signing an NDA, and nobody outside the team named in your contract can log in. Your real identity and personal data stay protected by contract indefinitely, even after we stop working together.
Three things we would rather make clear up front:
- We don't find you jobs. We don't book modeling gigs, appearances, shoots or brand deals with third parties. Empire is not a talent or booking agency; we run your OnlyFans operation.
- We don't hold your money. Under the OnlyFans Terms of Service, the platform's fee is 20% of each fan payment, fan payments and creator earnings are transacted in USD, and you withdraw to the payout option you registered (such as a bank account) once your balance meets the minimum payout. Those earnings go to your own account, which only you own; Empire never receives or holds them. You pay our commission by bank transfer after you receive the report.
- We only work with women creators. If that is not you, we would rather say so now than waste your time.
We work with creators from the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela and Italy.
Your fans don't keep New York hours
New York runs on Eastern Time and moves its clocks twice a year: in 2026, daylight saving time runs from March 8 to November 1, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Europe changes on other dates: the last Sunday of March and the last Sunday of October under EU Directive 2000/84/EC, a calendar the UK also follows (in 2026, March 29 and October 25, according to GOV.UK). Mexico City, where our team is coordinated, no longer changes its clocks at all under Mexico's Time Zones Law (Ley de los Husos Horarios, 2022).
The result: for a few weeks each year your European fans are one hour closer to you than usual, and the gap between you and our coordination in Mexico City moves between one and two hours.
When it's 2:00 p.m. in New York… (calculated with the IANA time zone database, tzdata 2026b)
| Period | Mexico City (our coordination) | U.S. West Coast | London | Madrid / Rome |
| Jan 1 – Mar 7, 2026 | 1:00 p.m. | 11:00 a.m. | 7:00 p.m. | 8:00 p.m. |
| Mar 8 – Mar 28, 2026 | 12:00 p.m. | 11:00 a.m. | 6:00 p.m. | 7:00 p.m. |
| Mar 29 – Oct 24, 2026 | 12:00 p.m. | 11:00 a.m. | 7:00 p.m. | 8:00 p.m. |
| Oct 25 – Oct 31, 2026 | 12:00 p.m. | 11:00 a.m. | 6:00 p.m. | 7:00 p.m. |
| Nov 1, 2026 – Mar 13, 2027 | 1:00 p.m. | 11:00 a.m. | 7:00 p.m. | 8:00 p.m. |
In practice: a mass message sent at 2:00 p.m. in New York reaches fans in London at 7:00 p.m. most of the year, but at 6:00 p.m. during those two short gaps. The U.S. West Coast stays three hours behind you all year, so a 10:00 p.m. post in New York lands at 7:00 p.m. on the West Coast. When the clocks change, it is worth reviewing the timing of your posts and scheduled messages.
Privacy in a city where you're never fully anonymous
New York feels big enough to disappear in, and it is still small enough, block by block, for one subscriber to recognize a corner, a building or a view. Here privacy is worked on three fronts:
- Location blocking. OnlyFans has settings to block access by location. Whether it lets you select New York State or only whole countries is something we check with you in your own settings, without promising it in advance. Blocking an area also cuts off your subscribers there, and no block stops someone using a VPN.
- What a video gives away. A subway station sign, a street sign, a bodega awning, the skyline from your window or the lobby of your building can place you within a few blocks. It is worth checking for those details before a clip goes out, especially on the social profiles that send traffic to your page.
- Leaks. Our team searches for your leaked material and requests its removal with DMCA notices, by hand. The notice-and-takedown system comes from section 512 of the U.S. Copyright Act, which the U.S. Copyright Office explains here.
New York law also has two tools aimed at intimate images shared without consent. Penal Law § 245.15 makes unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image a class A misdemeanor, and its current text also covers images "created or altered by digitization." Civil Rights Law § 52-b lets the person depicted sue for an injunction, damages and attorney's fees, and ask a court to order websites to permanently remove the image; the deadline is three years from the publication or one year from when you discovered it, whichever is later. Both texts also leave out "images involving voluntary exposure in a public or commercial setting," so it is far from settled that they reach paid content someone reposted; for that kind of leak our tool is the DMCA notice. Whether either law fits your situation is a question for a New York lawyer. We don't give legal advice.
Shooting content on New York streets
If the city is your backdrop for social media, the Film Office of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment summarizes when a permit is required, based on sections 9-01 and 9-02 of its film permit rules:
- No permit: a hand-held camera or a camera on a tripod, with hand-held props and equipment, as long as you don't assert exclusive use of City property, don't use prop weapons, prop vehicles, stunts or actors in police uniform, and don't request parking privileges for production vehicles. Standing on a City sidewalk or in a City park with a hand-held camera does not require one.
- Permit required: equipment packages, production vehicles requesting parking privileges, exclusive use of City property, prop weapons or vehicles, stunts, police uniforms, or anything that needs NYPD or FDNY assistance.
- Fee: $500, non-refundable, for each consecutive 14-day period or part of one. If the fee is an unreasonable hardship, the Film Office reviews waiver requests case by case.
Two caveats. Those rules cover the logistics of filming in public space, not what you can lawfully show there: anything explicit stays off the street. And private places such as rooftops, restaurants or a friend's building need the owner's permission. If a shoot is anything more than a phone and a tripod, check with the Film Office first.
Taxes in New York City: one more layer (data, not advice)
The federal part (Schedule C, self-employment tax, 1099 forms and quarterly dates) is the same across the country, and we cover it on our OnlyFans agency page for the US. Living in the five boroughs adds city-level items worth raising with your CPA:
- New York City resident income tax. Full-year NYC residents compute it on their New York State return (Form IT-201). In the 2025 IT-201 instructions, the city rate schedule runs from 3.078% to 3.876% of NYC taxable income, on top of state and federal tax.
- Unincorporated Business Tax (UBT). According to the NYC Department of Finance, it is a 4% tax on taxable income allocated to the city, and unincorporated businesses include trades, professions and certain occupations of an individual. A liability of $3,400 or less gets a credit for the full amount, and one between $3,401 and $5,400 a partial credit. New York State does not administer it: the IT-201 instructions say self-employed people who carry on a business in NYC may also have to file Form NYC-202 or NYC-202S directly with the city.
OnlyFans' own terms leave tax affairs to each creator, and whether and how any of this applies to you depends on your situation, so ask your CPA. We are not tax preparers and we don't file anything for you. What your CPA does get from us is a clear record: the commission report you receive within 5 business days of every monthly cut-off.
The math, in New York terms
Rent is the number every New Yorker knows. In the city's 2023 Housing and Vacancy Survey, the net rental vacancy rate fell to 1.4%, the lowest since 1968, and the median rent was $1,650, according to the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (initial findings released February 8, 2024). With fixed costs like that, the percentage an agency keeps matters.
Our commission is public and depends on what you keep in the month after OnlyFans' 20%:
- 30% if your net earnings for the month are under $1,000.
- 25% from $1,000 up to just under $3,000.
- 20% from $3,000 exactly.
The rate of the tier you reach applies to the whole month. Three examples:
| Fans pay in the month | You keep after OnlyFans' 20% | Empire's commission | You keep |
| $1,000 | $800 | 30% = $240 | $560 |
| $2,500 | $2,000 | 25% = $500 | $1,500 |
| $3,750 | $3,000 | 20% = $600 | $2,400 |
For comparison, on the same $2,000 net, an agency taking 50% of net would leave you $1,000 instead of $1,500. That $500 a month is about 30% of the 2023 median rent.
These are calculation examples, not an earnings promise. Commission only applies to earnings OnlyFans has already made available to you; money the platform is still holding is counted in whichever cut-off it is released in.
Bilingual New York, and why it matters in your inbox
After English, Spanish is the language most spoken at home in New York. The NYC Department of City Planning's table of top languages spoken at home (2018 American Community Survey) counts 1,879,960 residents aged 5 and over who speak Spanish at home, out of 7,863,680 in that age group; in all, 48.6% of them speak a language other than English at home.
For a creator, that shows up in the inbox: fans who write in Spanish, in English, or in both within one message. Our team chats in English and Spanish and handles other languages too, and the rule is the same in every one of them: the tools suggest, a person reviews and sends. Nothing goes out on its own.
AI, your face and your voice
Our rule is short: we only replicate your image or voice with AI if you give us signed authorization. New York has its own rule on this. General Obligations Law § 5-302, in force since January 1, 2025 for contracts signed or modified from that date, can make void a clause in a personal-services contract that allows a digital replica of your voice or likeness to be used in place of work you would have done in person when, among other conditions, the clause doesn't describe the intended use in a reasonably specific way and you were not represented by a lawyer or a union in negotiating it. New York's Civil Rights Law § 52-c adds a rule for digitally created sexual material: consent only counts if it is a written agreement in plain language with a general description of the material and of the work where it will appear. Before you sign any AI authorization, ours included, have a lawyer read it.