Perfectionsoup

That's an astounding amount of money. I was paid $4000 for my eggs. What you were paid might not have even been strictly legal. It's illegal in the US to sell human body parts (even eggs) so they can't actually pay you for the eggs. They write it off as compensating you for the time and discomfort (which is not insignificant - lots of clinic visits and shots like you mentioned). It would be really hard to justify your time being worth $30,000!

I would do it again for $4000. Obviously it would be nicer to be paid $30,000 but that's not particularly likely.

The biggest inconvenience to me was going nearly daily for about 3 weeks for office visits. Lots of transvaginal ultrasounds, so you'll soon know what that experience is like when ignorant congresspeople want to make it mandatory before abortions! To me it was mildly uncomfortable but not painful.

When I donated my eggs the phsyician told me that I had one of the best donor profiles he had ever seen, and a recipient chose mine about a week after I had submitted it, and I still received the standard payment. Not trying to brag or anything, just saying that to point out that payments from agencies are pretty standardized. I asked and it was not a negotiable amount, because once again it was not for the eggs themselves but for the time/suffering. I was also told that there was a national fertility organization of some sort that set a recommended cap on payments (sorry I don't remember the details). Probably the only way you would be able to get anything over $5-10k max is by doing it as a private contract such as the OP seems to have done. Then it would be much the same as a pregnancy surrogate - negotiate a fee amongst yourself and as long both parties are happy it's fine.

One point to remember is that people trying to get pregnant this way are already spending an extraordinary amount of money. My friend who waited for me during my extraction chatted with multiple people in the waiting room who had spent in excess of $70k for one child. While I definitely "donated" my eggs for the money, I would feel pretty guilty price gouging people in that situation.