You Can Earn Your Own Damn $500 Base Pay Writing on Medium with Just 13 Stories

Here’s my analysis of the kind of story you need

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So you missed out on the somewhat-secretive Medium base pay plan, huh?

No worries. I did some math, (it was painful) and have your solution. You only need 13 high-quality stories, each earning $1.25 per day on average. That comes to $37 for each story in any given 30-day period, for a total of $481. Add in your earnings still trickling in from previous stories and fillers, and Bingo! You join the $500 club.

Wait, don’t go. You can do this. I have done this. I’ve got a full analysis of several $37 stories and examples to get you started. First things first. I am never going to talk about views, reads, or member read time. People who claim you need x number of hours of member read time to generate x dollars are stupid. Stop reading that crap.

Nobody knows the formula because every topic is different. Every damn story is different. Def look at those numbers, but don’t waste precious writing time trying to make sense of them. The main things that matter on your stats page are earnings, external referral percentage, and average read time.

Here’s the brief picture of why those three things matter