The Complete Step-by-Step DIY Medium Base Pay for the Rest of Us
It’s not much harder than the NewsBreak deal, except you get to write the way you want
Instead of crying in your beer about the end of NewsBreak base pay or whining about not being included in the mysterious Medium fellowship program last month, how about, we do what working writers have always done and create our own base pay?
It’s not really that complicated, but it will take hard work and some math. I hear you on the math part — it’s not really my forte either, but I can manage the basics with my trusty desk calculator.
As for the work part, I know you’re capable. If you played the NewsBreak game you know you can crank out enough content to meet a target, right? We just need to find the targets.
So let’s get to this!
Set your own base pay
In the Medium fellowship base pay plan you apparently aren’t part of, the minimum pay offered was $200. Some people were offered $500 or even $1,000. I’ve got do-it-yourself plans for each of those amounts laid out below, so start thinking about your preferred base now.
How much do you really want to earn here? Keep in mind that popular stories will always come along that…
