What Do the Top Bloggers Earn? It’s a Lot More Than $5 per Post!

Read/Write Web posted some interesting statistics about some top tier bloggers and their earnings. The results were surprising to many. No, they’re not earning $5 a post or $100 a month plus traffic bonuses, many bloggers are bringing in pay ranging from $25 a post to $75, 000 a year plus bennies.

Surprising? It shouldn’t be. Even though most network bloggers start out low, the job boards tell us there is life beyond the networks. Blog posts paying upwards of $20 a post are becoming more common place and many of us have stopped freelancing to earn a much higher salary doing what we love.

While the Read/Write web article states gigs like these are difficult to find, I’m not so sure I agree. We look at several different job boards a day and there are always a couple of choice, high paying gigs on at least one of the boards on a given day. Moreover, by browsing certain sites one can also find full time opportunities for bloggers, Community Managers, Social Networkers and more. Like all good things, you have to to be patient to find these jobs but they’re there, I promise. Granted, the competition for these is no doubt fierce, but that’s just more incentive to be the best blogger possible.

I wonder, if earnings like this DO become commonplace, will bloggers leave networks for greener pastures or will networks begin raising their rates? It’ll be interesting to watch for sure.