$1500 for 1000 Words on Medium

Here’s a Reddit post and YouTube video by some German dude 🇩🇪…

(Update: he removed the post and the video, sorry!)

He’s been blogging on the Medium platform for the past six months and reports earning more than $5k overall, including $1500 for this 1000-word article.

As he explains on Reddit, Medium pays according to the amount of time people spend reading your articles.

For a deeper dive on Medium and how to earn money on there, see this article by Casey Botticello.

Casey writes…

I would say that a writer that can consistently produce marketable content could earn $500-$1,500 per month without being featured on Medium’s home page or in major publications.

If you can manage to be featured in Medium’s own publications repeatedly, develop a large following, and can produce multiple articles per day that are curated, you have the potential to earn $2,000–$25,000+ per month.

Also…

Here are some other stats Medium included on their Partner Program as of September 2020:

$16,685.50 — the highest amount earned for a single story
$49,705.40 — the highest amount earned by a single author
6.4% — the percentage of active writers who earned over $100