How much do swamp people get paid for their alligators?

Typically 60K to 100K per year, however, like any job that solely relies on nature's cooperation and human effort, the variables are too rangy for an exact answer.

Since the History Channel's Swamp People show has introduced this profession on a national level, the relatively small cost to get in the business has attracted pipe dreamers to the swamps in pursuit of the 'no more boss' work environment.

Of those, so very few were prepared for the hard, hot long days, and mostly, they didn't understand the territorial risk of existing generations not taking too kindly to the intrusion. In some cases, the locals of the swamps are much more threatening than the alligators.