Pay to play or Pay Allowance?

What is the going rate for a Childs allowance nowadays? Do Parents still pay for a child doing chores?
I wasn’t one of the kids who got an allowance growing up. It was just expected that if you lived in the family house you helped with the family chores no compensation needed.

My Husband however was one of the lucky ones who got an allowance. He got enough money to buy one Star wars figure a week. If you think about that and the current costs of an action figure now (6.99 +) that means I’d be paying each of my kids 28.00 bucks a month adding a bill of 56.00 to our monthly budget! That’s 3 months of World of Warcraft! Or whatever pay to play you are playing.

We don’t pay any allowance in our house. What we do is if you have pulled your weight around the house doing family chores we will pay for your pay to play game account for 1 month. Yes, there has been months that the kids haven’t played but it’s completely up to them. We don’t have a chore list (Well “They” don’t I do lol) If I ask someone to do something twice I don’t ask again I’ll ask the other kid and if neither do it 1. My husband or myself will do it or 2. I remind them that they wont be playing games and that normally fixes their attitudes real quick. Really we don’t get too much attitude when it comes to helping out. Our Daughter likes the inside chores like Loading the dishwasher, gathering the dirty clothes and Our Son likes the Outside Chores like Mowing the Grass or taking out the trash can that kind of stuff.
I think they are getting a really good deal. What do you think?