35 Bloggers Making $1,000 to $300,000 Per Month

I like to study blogging income reports to see how I can improve my own site. I’ve been making between $1,500 to $2,500 for a few months now and want to get to the next level.

Blogging Income Reports

Below are 35 recent blogging income reports and a brief description of how each site makes money. It’s interesting to see the difference between bloggers who make a few hundred dollars, six figure bloggers, and then millionaire bloggers.

Can you see any patterns? Let’s do a quick summary first.

Blogging Income Average

The bloggers on this list make an average of $35,724 per month.

Although, the median blogging income is $8,095.

Blogging Income Streams

I was surprised to find diversity in blogging income streams in this list.

Bloggers get a lot of crap for taking part in “pyramid schemes” where they make money by convincing other bloggers to blog but in reality, bloggers are making money from a myriad of sources.

You’ll see below that bloggers are profiting from niches including golf practice, gaming, health and fitness, and even job finding services for felons.

Here are the recent blogging income reports from 35 bloggers, organized by income.

Bloggers Making Greater than $1,000 per Month

Affiliate income and advertising are dominant at the $1,000+ level.

Adsense, Mediavine, and AdThrive seem to be the popular advertising networks.

Mediavine and AdThrive have steep minimum page views (I believe 25k and 100k per month respectively), so most of the bloggers below meet that bar.

Sponsored content is also a common theme in this group and the sources of that content vary.

Gen Y Girl – $1,108

Majority from sponsored work through Social Fabric and Clever Girls networks.

Finance Superhero – $1,070

Income split between Google Adsense advertising and sponsored posts.

This Fairy Tale Life – $1,316

Most of this income came from advertising through Mediavine.

Ask Nick Foy – $1,788

Mostly from sales of niche ebooks and practice plans for golfers.

Recipe This – $2,830

Sponsored content drives the income on this food blog.

Millennial Boss – $2,851

Heavily weighted towards affiliate income. (This is my site!)

Ali Adventures – $2,894

Income made up of Amazon affiliate commission and AdThrive advertising.

The Endless Meal – $2,903

Majority came from advertising through AdThrive.

The Bewitchin Kitchen – $3,734

Split between sponsored posts and advertising through AdThrive.

Easy Baby Life – $4,310

Majority came from advertising through Mediavine.

Eden Fried – $4,939

Mostly from monthly client work including SEO, social media management, and website development.

Bloggers Making Greater than $5,000 per Month

High traffic and niche sites seem to be big themes in this group of blogging income reports.

The increased traffic drives a much higher return on advertising than the $1,000+ group.

I’ve been reading the Pinteresting Strategies ebook to increase my traffic. It’s written by a blogger who gets over 400,000 page views per month from Pinterest.

I highly recommend it. The ebook is over 90 pages of meat (and at $32 it’s not too expensive either).

Mommy to Max – $5,251

Affiliate marketing drives revenue on this site. A good chunk comes from Amazon Associates.

The Intentional Mom – $5,481

Affiliate income and advertising.

The Practical Saver – $6,655

Income split between advertising, survey company signups, and sponsored work.

Tara Tierney – $6,712

Earns majority of income from a Uber driver referral code site that gives new drivers a signup bonus. **Tara has since removed this post

Principles of Increase – $7,175

Split between freelance writing and affiliate income.

Pulling Curls – $8,000

Relatively even split between affiliate income, sponsored posts, ad income, and self-launched course.

True Valhalla – $8,095

This game developer made $6,000 from HTML5 games in Feb and March.

One Hour Professor – $8,542

Makes money off of advertising on various domains including a job finding site for felons.

Chasing Foxes – $14,844

Makes money off of advertising from Pinterest traffic.

Bloggers Making Greater than $25,000 per Month

Now we’re getting into the big leagues.

These are the bloggers making six figures on their blogs per year and more.

You’ll start to see more bloggers offering their own consulting services at the $25,000+ per month level.

Income sources are still very diverse at this level.

All of these bloggers have growing email lists. Many are using ConvertKit which I also use for my mailing list and highly recommend.

The ROI on sending email is crazy high. ConvertKit makes it super easy to design forms, collect subscribers, and tag subscribers by interest.

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Bloggers Making Six Figures – $100,000+ Per Year

Millennial Money Man– $20,507

Made over $10,000 offering digital marketing services such as Facebook ad management.

Market Your Creativity – $20,998

Makes money from membership dues to an online membership program for entrepreneurs.

Millennial Money – $23,130

Income sources include affiliate marketing, SEO consulting, and 1×1 coaching.

Niche Pursuits – $29,474

Makes majority of money selling physical products on Amazon.

Shout Me Loud – $34,390

Mostly from affiliate marketing. Great organic search traffic.

Authority Website Income – $49,617

Super diverse income streams. Buys websites, sells on Amazon, started various online businesses, etc.

Matthew Woodward – $27,371

Makes over $10k in affiliate income. Brought in $19k with a private project that was not disclosed.

Create And Go – $36,949

Launched their own course based on their successful health website and youtube channel. Also sell supplements.

Show Me the Yummy – $46,367

Makes money through advertising, sponsored work, and own course.

Believe in a Budget – $47,442

Most of the income comes from launch of her own courses as well as affiliate marketing.

Update from me, Millennial Boss, on January 2020: So this is kind of crazy but I actually am now making over $100,000 per year blogging! Never thought that would be the case when I first wrote this post. You can follow me on Instagram to learn more about my blogging journey and life.

Bloggers Making Greater than $100,000 per Month

These are the bloggers making six figures per month, which means they’re pulling in millions per year!

It seems like courses, information products, and outsourcing are necessary to really scale and get to the $100,000+ per month level. That makes sense given that a person only has so much time in the day to pump out content.

Most of these sites also have custom web development. I’ve been really happy with my Studiopress theme but maybe it’s something to look into down the road.

You know, when I’m making millions. 😉

Bloggers Making Millions

So Over This – $100,094

Buys websites and makes money through advertising sales.

Smart Passive Income – $102,915

Majority of the income from affiliate marketing.

Making Sense of Cents – $131,448

Made over $50,000 selling her online course (which I’ve personally taken and highly recommend). Check out the course here, Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing Course.

EOFire – $195,482

Sell information products, physical products (journals), as well as do affiliate marketing.

Melyssa Griffin – $283,680

Mostly from online course sales but also from affiliate marketing.

Blogging Income Potential

Blogging income potential seems unlimited when you can scale like many of the bloggers on this list.

After reading these 35 income reports, I definitely have renewed motivation and inspiration to blog.

If you’re not making any money on your blog right now, don’t be discouraged.

Check out my post to learn some hard truths about your blog and why it’s not making any money.

You’ll be on this list in no time.

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Julie paid off nearly $100k of debt and is on her way to financial independence. She hosts a Podcast and is obsessed with tracking her money saved via the free app Personal Capital (although she won't tell you what it is). She loves her dog and drinks iced coffee year round. She also is the creator of The Side Hustle Course where she teaches people how to sell printables on Etsy and blog.