$850 — My Highest Earning Month on Medium

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In October 2019, the most I’d ever been paid from Medium (back when it was still engagement-based) was $140 and change.

I was actually pretty happy with that number, knowing that according to Medium’s newsletters, only about 6% of writers earn over $100 per month, and the fact that I do not rely on Medium for my salary. I love blogging and have been an avid online blogger since the Myspace and Livejournal days (and journal writer prior to that) in 2001-ish.

Writing, for me, is a passion, a love, a vocation, and also my career.

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But blogging through Medium is not my salary. I make my money through working with clients, whether that is editing books, blogging for companies, or copywriting. In fact, October 2019 was my best month yet in my business, and I had my first $10,000 month as a freelancer!

In November 2019, I wrote my first big “how I made $xxxxx through writing” post. And it went viral. I am not a big fan of all the “how made x dollars on Medium” posts because there seem to be new ones every single day that all say the same…