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All The Medium Articles That Earned Me $200 or More

Including the $1,000+ ones

Karen Banes
6 min readDec 3, 2024
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I’ve been digging into my stats to find out what works for me and what doesn’t. Having been on Medium since 2017 I have a fair bit of data.

If you want to do something similar it’s simple. Just go to your stats page, scroll down to ‘Lifetime’ and there you can sort every story you’ve ever published by ‘Highest Earnings’, ‘Most Viewed’, or ‘Most Read’.

You’d expect them to be similar but I was surprised to be honest. While my top three earning articles look like this:

My top three most viewed are different:

And my top three most read are slightly different again (although the top story is the same across all three metrics):

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Karen Banes
Karen Banes

Written by Karen Banes

Freelance writer sharing thoughts on life, society, creativity, and productivity. https://changetheworldwithwords.substack.com

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