There was a time when body builders were short of cash. That time is part of body building history. Today, body builders are making a killing at the end of each month, receiving checks that other professionals could easily flinch from. In the contemporary society, someone with muscles can never run out of demand in the job market if his or her attitude and ethics are in order. From acting to bouncers, body builders are finding it easy to cruise in the world of big bucks in a liquid ease.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the legend, is a classic example of a successful body builder who has scaled the heights of professional bodybuilding, to the monied talons of showbiz and finally to political affluence, just for being popular. Years in the gym are being paid very fat checks nowadays, if we could only put it mildly. Even at the local scenes, small time body builders are finding relatively easy to pay the bills, and their only claim to fame is a well-built torso.

Some body builders double up as security agents for influential personalities, blaring their intimidating masculine physiques as maximum-security pillars alongside their clients at public appearances and even day-to-day routines. It pays to have muscles, even for cowards, for when hostiles glance at the size of your biceps, the measure of your shoulders or the bulge of your chest, they recoil in second thought.

A related field open to body builders is that of club bouncers. Most top clubs and up-market joints even in your neighborhood employ villainous looking bouncers to man the entry and exit points. These individuals are paid top dollar for events or hourly sessions, just because their masculine physiques intimidate patrons and instill fear in would-be troublemakers. For a few hours, a successful body builder will man the door of a nightclub and take home a package that the manager in the same joint earns for the same number of hours, if not less.

Another popular front on which body builders are making a killing is showbiz, and this is where the real money is. The pay is insane. For a stunt in a movie, a part in a production, an act in a show or a featured role in a film, a muscled, physically agile body builder will take home a check that looks every inch immoral. John Sina, The Rock, Steve Austin, Brock Lesner and the like, are classic examples who know the feel and look of torrents in colored paper. They make more in a few months than most of us would think possible within decades.

Body building magazines and health journals among other periodicals have mushroomed in their thousands both in print and online. More often than not, it is successful body builders who write columns for these magazines, giving advice, personal accounts and responding to reader questions based on their experience. A successful body builder is a wealth of knowledge for the millions of the rest of us who are trying to achieve as much.

Finally, advertisements are more often featuring body builders than ever before. Ranging from supplements, health products, foods and drug industries, body builders are receiving insane amounts of money just for being featured on a product. Most corporations actually sponsor a body builder to train at star programs under elite tutorship and then pay him or her millions, to market a particular product or product line.