What is the average salary for bloggers? This simple question has an easy answer: It depends. There’s a variety of factors that affect your income as a blogger. These include your location, experience level, niche, and traffic sources.
In order to determine the salary for a blogger, it is important to first define what a blogger is. A blogger is someone who writes content for blogs, usually on a website or social media page, that they own.
The salary range for a blogger will depend on the company they work for, as well as their experience level and area of expertise.
The average salary for a blogger is $25,000 per year. This is the median salary, meaning that half of all bloggers make more than $25,000 and half make less.
The range between high and low earners is wide. It’s not uncommon to see bloggers making over $50,000 or as little as $10,000 per year.
Salary for bloggers
How Much Money Can You Make Blogging?
Some bloggers make nothing at all. Others make $500,000 or more every year.
And some start with a blog and end up building an entire business empire. (We’re going to look at some examples of very successful bloggers, in various niches, later on.)
So how much could you make from your blog? That’s going to vary based on your skills and the niche you’ve chosen.
But it’s certainly realistic to expect to make a good, full-time salary from blogging: think $100,000/year or more, once your blog is well-established.
Of course, with blogging, there’s really no ceiling. You can keep growing your blog — or you can start additional blogs.
That doesn’t mean working 80-hour weeks, either. You could take on a virtual assistant or even a team of freelance writers and work just 10 – 20 hours per week.
So how much do beginner bloggers make? Well, most experienced bloggers agree you’re unlikely to make much during your first year of blogging.
In your first few months, you might make nothing at all. But you’ll quickly find your income grows, year by year, after your first year of blogging.
How much money can you make blogging in the longer term? If you’re blogging in a popular and profitable niche, you could be looking at:
- $30,000 – $50,000 in your first year of blogging. That’s around the average income in the USA. Note that the majority of your income is likely to come in the second half of the year, once your blog is well underway and you’ve grown your email list.
- $100,000 in your second year of blogging. By this point, you’ll likely be blogging full-time (though not necessarily working as much as 40 hours per week). You’ll need plenty of traffic to your blog during this year.
- $200,000 in your third year of blogging. At this stage, you’ll have experimented extensively with different monetization methods and figured out what works best for you, your topic, and your audience.
- $400,000 or more in your fourth year of blogging. By doubling down on what’s working, hiring more help, and increasingly growing your audience, you should be able to make more and more money from your blog.
Now, it might not happen as quickly as that for you, depending on your life circumstances.
Obviously, if you have a lot of personal commitments, then you may not be able to devote much time to your blog. But you should see a steady increase in your income as the months and years go by.
