How Much Do Humor Sites Really Pay?

And how can you make more money from your humor writing?

Let’s talk about cash money, baby.

The questions du jour: How much do humor sites pay? 

And how can you earn more money by writing humor pieces for publications? 

Also, how do you make money on Medium.com with your humor writing? (As an editor of a Medium publication, this is a topic I know a lot about.)

And finally, what’s the right attitude toward money, for a humorist?

I want to tackle all of those questions today.

I’m glad I have Comedy Bizarre for these questions because I wouldn’t normally write publicly about writer pay. Especially not on Medium. Medium is replete with “how to make money on Medium” articles, and these stories are a plague of tackiness and clickbait about 97% of the time.

But, I don’t think it’s intrinsically bad to talk about making money with your writing. In fact, we should talk about it. Money is good. You can do cool things with money, like buy avocados. Also, you should want to be paid for your writing because getting paid is a real world test that you’re writing stuff that some people want to read.

(Side note: Because this will be a long feature article on money, I’ll focus here this week, and I’ll be back next week with our regular reader Q+A, a new Short Specific Comedy tip, etc.)

(Second side note: This post has a bunch of screenshots of my Medium earnings. This makes the post too big to display in Gmail. So if you’re reading this in email, you’ll either need to click “View entire message” or you’ll need to hop on over to Substack and read the full post there.)

So, here we go: I shall now unearth all that I know about making money by publishing your humor pieces.

1. What humor sites and publications pay