Editor’s Picks — Top 10: How Much Money 1000 Views Earn You on Medium
Let’s read the stories of our top 10 writers today
How much money can you make if you get 1000 views of your story on Medium? Most of the new writers are curious to know — just as I wanted to know when I started writing on Medium.
Maybe you are not writing for money, but most of the writers want to know the answer. I would be lying if I told you I didn’t look at my stats after every hour.
Money is a strong motivation. For me, it is an ongoing experiment to know what is the worth of my words when people don’t know me and when they do know me.
When I hit the publish button, I want my story to go viral and bring me $1000 in the morning. Until now, I have not seen this happening. But it hasn’t stopped me from hoping.
The most successful writers make more than $33,000 a month. But many writers — in hundreds — earn more than $1000. Since Medium has 170 million readers and 50,000 writers, you can guess that writers are few as compared with the total number of readers.
On the other side, the total number of writers earning more than $100 is somewhere between 4000 to 7000. But most of these $100 writers do not spend more than two hours writing on Medium.
