How to Make Money Writing on Medium.com in 2023? (2024)

Absolutely! Medium.com is one of the few blogging platforms on the internet where you can quickly sign up, post your great content, and get paid after a month.

In my own opinion, after trying over 5 different writing sites in a few years, Medium is the best blogging platform of them all.

You don’t need a niche, you don’t need to do affiliate marketing (although you can if you want to) and you don’t need pesky ads to earn money.

When I first joined Medium back in June of 2019, I did so out of the advice of a few friends as a hobby to pursue while I was traveling around Asia. I loved the platform and the idea that you could make a few bucks while doing something you enjoy!

I wrote a couple of articles in the content management system dashboard and drew a few digital portraits as my first posts, made around $10 and didn’t look back for a while as life got in the way.

Since October 2019, I’ve been going at Medium like a burning bat out of a pest-control facility, and have had an amazing time on the platform!

But I made a few mistakes that could’ve easily been avoided in the beginning, and that’s why I’m writing this article.

To help you — the new writer to Medium — earn money faster and easier than I did.

Just in case you haven’t become a Medium member yet, I’d love you eternally if you signed up using my referral link! I’ll get a small commission at no cost to you and you’ll get eternal love — win-win!

For those unfamiliar with the website, Medium.com is basically the Youtube of writing.

Much like Youtube, if you join Medium, write amazing articles of your choosing, then you can earn money when paying members read your stories.

Also like Youtube, Medium now uses “member reading time” as the main metric for earning money on the platform.