The cost to donate eggs is around $5,000.00 to $15,000.00 depending on the location, experience and specific physical traits.
First time egg donors often get paid $5,000.00 to $10,000, and experienced egg donors could even get paid as much as $6,000.00 to over $10,000.00 and sometimes even more.
In exceptional cases of egg donors, like egg donors that have rare traits, they could even earn up to $15,000.00 and some egg donor agencies offer repeat bonus for multiple cycles of egg donors.
A woman can donate her eggs as part of in vitro fertilization also known as IVF treatments.
Egg donation through IVF treatments is a process that involves a healthy woman, "the donor" providing eggs to another woman who cannot produce viable eggs of her own.
The eggs are then fertilized in a lab with some sperm, and the resulting embryo is then transferred to the recipient woman's uterus.
Women may require donor eggs from an egg donor to get pregnant due to various reasons like premature ovarian failure, diminished ovarian reserve, poor egg quality and even advanced egg.
Egg donation can be an option for some women to avoid passing on a genetic condition to the child.
And women that have undergone chemotherapy or even radiation therapy may also require donor eggs to get pregnant and women that have had their ovaries surgically removed may also require donor eggs to get pregnant.
The process of egg donation includes undergoing a thorough screening process, including medical evaluations, psychological evaluations and even genetic valuations.
And egg donors are also given medications to stimulate their ovaries to produce multiple eggs.
Once the donor eggs mature, they are then retrieved through a minor surgical procedure and the retrieved donor eggs are fertilized with sperm and the resulting embryos are transferred to the recipient's uterus.