Quantifying My 4 Years of Writing on Medium
Is earning from writing on Medium sustainable?
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7 min readMay 3, 2020
Just like any other Medium writer, I wonder how my writing on Medium has fared over the years. How do I measure it? Anything I need to change to improve? And most importantly, is what I’m doing sustainable?
On the web, there is not much to use as a reference point. Medium does publish some statistics through their monthly emails. Below is the data for April 2020.
- 64% of writers or publications who wrote at least one story for members earned money.
- 6.9% of active writers earned over $100.
- $17,126.40 was the most earned by a writer, and $5,099.90 was the most earned for a single story.
So I know I’m in the 6.9% category. But I want to know more.
Medium is kind enough to provide us with Medium Writer stats and the Medium Partner Program dashboard to let us know how we are doing.
I did a little work and extracted the data to put into an Excel file, and then processed it. Here I’m sharing with you my findings. Hopefully, they will help as a reference point for you.
