Medium Earnings
Medium Earnings Survey —May
How much money did you make writing for the Medium Partner Program in May 2020?
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 April earnings survey. We had 180 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.
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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, 43.5% 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, 47.2% 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.
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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 following his Medium publication, Blogging Guide.
