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The website content discusses the results of the Medium Earnings Survey for July 2020, highlighting the earnings of writers in the Medium Partner Program and providing insights and resources to help writers understand and potentially increase their earnings.

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The Medium Earnings Survey for July 2020, conducted by Casey Botticello, reveals that a significant portion of Blogging Guide respondents are more successful than the average Medium writer, with 51.2% earning over $100 per month compared to the typical 7%-9% of active writers. The survey, which is completely anonymous, aims to provide a more realistic picture of Partner Program earnings and offers valuable insights for writers. It includes data from 125 responses and suggests that Blogging Guide readers are highly engaged and proactive in enhancing their earnings. The website also provides links to articles that analyze Medium's earnings calculation methods, individual article earnings, and read time calculations, as well as a call to action for writers to participate in the ongoing survey to contribute to the collective understanding of earnings on Medium.

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  • The author, Casey Botticello, believes that the survey results are indicative of the success of Blogging Guide readers, who are portrayed as a group of highly engaged and earnings-focused writers.
  • The article implies that official Medium earnings results may not be fully representative of the average writer's experience, as they tend to focus on outliers.
  • Regular participation in the survey is encouraged as it is seen as a valuable tool for writers to gain insights and benchmark their earnings against peers.
  • The author expresses that the survey data, while not exhaustive, is a significant data point that complements the limited official information provided by Medium.
  • There is an underlying opinion that writers should actively seek to understand and improve their earnings, and the resources provided are meant to aid in this endeavor.

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Medium Earnings Survey —July

How much money did you make writing for the Medium Partner Program in July 2020?

Source: Blogging Guide

Every month, there are lots of posts asking about earnings on Facebook and other Medium chat groups, so I regularly post this Google survey.

I encourage everyone to submit their data!

The survey is completely anonymous and there are many interesting insights for authors based on the data.

Without surveys like this, writers have a limited understanding of the realistic Partner Program earnings.

Below are the results from the June earnings survey. We had 125 responses! Thank you to everyone who participated!

Overall, the earnings chart above suggests that readers of Blogging Guide are more successful than the general writing population.

Some useful articles for writers looking to better understand their Partner Program earnings:

In the general Medium writer population, typically 7%-9% of all active writers earn more than $100 in any given month. Among the Blogging Guide respondents surveyed last month, 51.2% earned over $100 per month!

In the general Medium writer population, typically 7%-9% of all active writers earn more than $100 in any given month. Among the Blogging Guide respondents, 51.2 % earned over $100 per month!

I am not surprised by these results, since Medium Blogging Guide readers tend to represent a group of highly engaged writers, who actively look to boost their earnings.

While this survey can only tell us so much, it is one of the few data points tracked other than the official earnings results from Medium, which focus on extreme outliers (highest earning author and highest earning article each month). While these stats are fun to look at for inspiration, they fail to report earnings information for the vast majority of writers (with the exception of the over $100 per month, metric).

Please consider filling out the survey below. It is immensely helpful to other writers and only takes a few seconds.

The total survey group results are viewable after you submit your own. Your answers are completely anonymous. I’ll keep this open for the next week or so.

Please let me know if you like this/find it useful, and I’ll be sure to do it again!

Medium Earnings Survey

After submitting your own results, click the “see previous responses” button to view all the earnings data.

— Casey Botticello

Thanks for reading this article! Leave a comment below if you have any questions. Be sure to sign up for the Blogging Guide newsletter, to get the latest tips, tricks, and news about writing on Medium and to join our Facebook group, Medium Writing, to share your latest Medium posts and connect with other writers.

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Casey Botticello is a partner at Black Edge Consulting. Black Edge Consulting is a strategic communications firm, specializing in online reputation management, digital marketing, and crisis management. Prior to founding Black Edge Consulting, he worked for BGR Group, a bipartisan lobbying and strategic communications firm.

Casey is the founder of the Cryptocurrency Alliance, a Super PAC dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain advocacy. He is a graduate of The University of Pennsylvania, where he received his B.A. in Urban Studies.

You can connect with him on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, or by visiting his website, Blogging Guide.

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