Sharing My Medium Stats Here
They are no longer allowed on Medium
Thank you, Medium, for these great earnings for January 2025: $17.45. 😀
At least it covered my monthly FOM payment of $15. But not if we count the taxes and stripe payments. It is another matter that I have already paid for a year’s subscription to FOM, with a discount of $10. That is, I have already subscribed to FOM till September 2025, having paid $150. 😟
I was earning more on Medium before. My highest earnings on Medium was in October 2024, with $180. ☺️I was as happy as a child. It was not much by the standards of other high-earning writers, but these are the first earnings from following my heart. So, obviously, I was over the moon with happiness!
In January, I earned only about 10 per cent of my October earnings. The remaining 90 per cent has been tweaked away!🤔
What can I do?🥹
Medium is a private company. It can do whatever it likes… but it sure is funny to spend hours each day working on my writing to get a net profit of $2 per month (excluding taxes and stripe fees, which, if added, means I am incurring a loss of $3 per month). 🤭
Some stories are not earning even cents:
I am happy at least that the number of clappers exceeded the number of reads by just 3. A great achievement, indeed! Where have all my former clappers gone?
And regarding the non-earnings despite spending hours there, I have to console myself with the grand words: “I am here, at Medium, for the Love of writing! 💜” 😃
And for the community of people whose work I have learned to love, there!❤️ 😊..
Thank you…🌸🌸🌸
This is the modified version of a story I had published earlier on Medium.
If you like my work and wish to support me a little (as Stripe is not supported here on Substack for India), please buy me a ☕️ of coffee here. Thank you💞
Nice to find you here Sophia! Remember me from M? 😊
I believe Medium heydays are over. Maybe Substack will bring us some little rewards in the future?