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$15 would be pretty low for a major blog, I think. When I was writing for one of the larger tech blogs, I was making about $2000/month for 3 stories per day.

Then your rate must have been about $22/post, which seems in the same ballpark.

Not quite. You're assuming I worked 30 days a month - but I only worked on weekdays. So the pay per post was actually just above $30.

That's about right. There usually are bonuses based on traffic for instance, so you have an incentive to write something popular.

Generally speaking, writing is not a big money machine (unless you own the blog and sell it - it happens to one blog every other year, so don't count on it).

When I used to write (for print magazines), it paid 10 cents per character. But unlike a blog, you can only write a handful of articles per month, not per day.

Oh, not bad. That will make the blogger about $3000 per month, right? (at 6 posts per day)

Anyway, thanks for the info anderzole!