I have no idea how that would work. This is only ancillary to discussion, but it's worth knowing how sex workers in legal brothels have been dealing with this. The thing about sex work is that it isn't just sex - it's companionship and that is something that is essential in its own right. It highlights the fact that what is deemed essential and what is not deemed essential is not based on what people actually need as much as what is needed to support the infrastructure. Otherwise, my line of work wouldn't be essential in California (as it is not in other places). Solely on the metric that sex workers can claim to be essential and that their line of work entails a level of close contact that would mandate protections that exceed what any worker besides one in the medical profession might entail, then they would certainly need hazard pay .