How Big is Your Piece of the $2 Million Medium Pie?

And how much revenue does Medium.com earn?

J.J. Pryor
Feedium
Published in
5 min readAug 29, 2020

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A pie representing the money making on Medium.com
Photo by Valeria Boltneva from Pexels

Ever since I joined Medium.com, I’ve always wondered how much money they make as a company.

When I started writing and trying to earn money on the platform, I began to wonder a more important question — how much are they paying writers on Medium?

Fortunately for my curiosity, there were several ways to see glimpses of this.

The Medium team itself sends out a monthly statistics update:

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They used to give more details but I can’t seem to find that information anymore. Either way, they still send out stats like the above by email once a month.

You can check out their account (Medium Writers) to see more stuff like this!

There are also many Medium sleuths who helped keep track of earnings trends.

If you haven’t heard of Casey Botticello’s monthly Medium earnings survey, you should check it out. Although its a subset of writers, it’s still interesting to see what people report every month.

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J.J. Pryor
Feedium

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