where can i write an article and get paid

For Novella submissions, they offer an advance against royalties. The size of it will depend on factors such as the length of the story and how commercial it can be.

For non-fiction work, they’ll send you an invoice with details.

As of Jan-7-2017, they stopped accepting original short fictions.

17.Clarkesworld – $500 to $1,380 per post

Update : They do not accept submission any longer!

Clarkesworld is a multiple award-winning (with 3 Hugo Awards among them) science fiction magazine.

They have a 1000 to 16000 word limit for each article.

You are paid 10¢ per word for the first 5000 words, and 8¢ for each word over 5000.

18. Harper’s Magazine – Pay unknown

Harper is a made in America monthly publication that publishes content about everything under the sun.

There is no information on how much they pay on the site.

19. The New Yorker – Pay unknown

This is arguably the most commercially successful magazine with a large international fan base.

You can submit short stories to take advantage of the amazingly huge readership over here.

They don’t mention the pay, but they do say it can take up to 6 months to hear back. So if you’re looking for quick cash, this won’t be the best option.

But it’s a great platform for getting your work and name out.

20. Asimov’s Science Fiction – up to $1,600 per story

Asimov’s name is universally associated with science fiction and they are much acclaimed by the international community.

The pay is $0.08 for every word, up to $1,600 per story.

Sites That Pay You to Write About Politics, News & Entertainment

21. the christian science monitor – $200 to $225 per post.

The Christian Science Monitor writes about everything contemporary, and they tend to have a slight national focus.

Their basic rate starts at $250. But it can go higher depending on the subject and the actual work.

22. High Country News – $0.50 to $1.50 per word

High Country News focuses its circulation on the American West.

The rate is $.50 to $1.50 a word (which is impressive considering that they are a not-for-profit organization), with a cap on 2,400 words.

23. The Sun Magazine – up to $2000 per post

The Sun Magazine is an elegant magazine with a huge slant on literary stuff.

A typical non-fiction article can fetch between $300-$2000.

24. The Nation – $150 to $500 per post

The Nation is a left-leaning publication.

Here are the kind of content they look for:

Comments and analyses of news developments (approximately 750 words.)
Articles that use reporting and analysis to create in-depth content about issues (typically 1500-2500 words.)
They also accept poems.

25. Salon – Pay unknown

Salon covers entertainment news mostly.

Sites That Pay You to Write Jokes

26. cracked – $50 to $200 per post.

Cracked a massive and quickly growing humor site that is always looking for new content.

They pay $50 for four really short funny stories.

For feature-length articles, the rate increase to about $100.

27. Reader’s Digest – $100 per post

One of my favorite magazines. Reader’s Digest is actually kind of famous for its reader stories.

So it’s not a supersize that they’re always looking for new stories and content.

They pay $100 per article regardless of the length.

Sites That Pay You to Write About Education

28. teaching tolerance – $1 per word.

This is a magazine geared towards teachers.

Their audience is a national audience of PreK-12 educators interested.

The kind of content they look for include:

Multiculturalism
Anti-bias and social justice

They pay up to $1 per word.

29. American Educator – up to $300 per post

American Educator is a quarterly magazine funded by the American Federation of Teachers.

It covers all aspects of teaching from the perspective of policy formulation, labor, trends, etc…

You are paid up to $300 per accepted article.

Sites That Pay You to Write About Religion

30. devozine – $25 to $100 per post.

Devozine’s goal is to provide guidelines to young adults in order to strengthen their faith in Christianity.

You earn$25 for meditations-related articles and $100 for feature-length articles.

31. The Quiet Hour – up to $115 per post

The quarterly issued Quiet Hour features anecdotal stories, and each one is to be closed with a prayer or quotation.

First-time contracts have a pay of up to $115.

32. Sports Spectrum – $315-$420 per post

Sports Spectrum tends to focus on how Christianity can inspire sporting success.

You can expect to fetch $315-$420 for an article length of 1,500-2,000 words.

Sites That Pay You to Write About Special Topics

33. pentimento – $250 per post.

Pentimento is focused on the disabled community, and making the public more aware of their needs.

They like well-balanced and engaging stories about the disabled community in general or real stories about specific disabled individuals and their lives.

They pay$250 per piece.

34. Drum! Magazine – $50 to $300 per post

As the name implies, it is all about drums.

If you have interesting stuff to say about drumming, you get paid $50-$300 for every feature article.

35. LightHouse – $100 per essay

This is a magazine/site focused on the blind and visually impaired community.

And they are looking for blind and visually impaired writers to submit content.

The underlying theme is not so much on the sufferings, but about conquering adversities in life.

They pay $100 for essays published on their blog. However, they do mention that for long or ambitious pieces, you can talk to the editors for a bigger payout.

36. Porthole Cruise Magazine – Pay unknown

This magazine sets out to collate and consolidates all things pertaining to cruises.

They do not mention the pay rate. Only that the payment is issued after publication.

37. DRAFT – $0.80 per word

As the name suggests, this is a beer-related site, thus naturally they look for content related to the industry.

They pay $0.80 per word.

38. Rapid Media Magazine – Pay unknown

Rapid Media publishes four magazines, Canoeroots, Rapid, Adventure Kayak and Kayak Angler.

Each of these magazines has their own guidelines and pay rate.

39. Maine Boat, Homes & Harbors – $250-$500 per article

A magazine dedicated to covering boating in Main!

They like short articles of between 500 to 1500 words.

You can expect between $250 to $500 per article.

40. Country Magazine – $250 per post

As the name suggest, this is a magazine dedicated to the country lifestyle.

You can submit content about anything that relates to this lifestyle.

You’ll be paid a one-time fee of $100 per accepted submission.

Sites That Pay You to Write About Business & Money

41. ecommerce insiders – $125 per post.

They look for content focused on the online retail industry.

Here is how they pay:

$75 for articles between 400 to 600 words
$125 for articles that are 600 words long
$150 for articles longer than 600 words

42. iWorkWell – $200 per article

iWorkWell is fully dedicated to human resource practices.

If you are in the HR business, you can make $200 per article here.

Sites That Pay You to Write Fiction

43. fantasy and science fiction – up to $3000 per article.

As the name suggests, this one is geared towards fantasy and science fiction.

The payout is 7-12 cents for every word, but the payment is capped at 25,000 words, which means that you can potentially make up to $3,000 per article.

Sites That Pay You to Write About Parenting

44. a fine parent – $100 per post.

They look for useful parenting tips.

The accepted article will be paid $75.

45. Scary Mommy – $100 per post

Update: They no longer pay. Although they still accept submissions.

Scary Mommy gives parenting a unique twist – practical tips presented in a humorous way.

If you can produce lighthearted yet useful parenting tips, you will be paid $100 for your article.

46. Babble – $150 per post

Disney is the parent company of Babble.

You can write about anything that’s relevant to parenting.

You are paid $150 for every 1200 words.

47. Youth Today – $150-$2000 per article

Youth Today is intended for the caregivers and policymakers of the youth.

The kind of stories they like include:

Best practices
Survey pieces
Follow the Money
Professional Development
Debunking Myths
A Sense of Place

They don’t mention the pay, but I’ve heard anywhere from $150 to $2000 per article.

Sites That Pay You to Write About Lifestyle

48. girls life – $300 per post.

This magazine gives useful updates and advice on boys-girls relationship, celebrity gossip, grooming, etc…

Payment can go up to $300 per article.

49. NY Times’ Modern Love Column – Pay unknown

This is the column piece found in the New York Times.

They encourage personal stories in relation to parenting, marriage, relationship and dating.

50. L.A. Affairs – $300 per article

This is another column in another famous.

They tell of the hot and not-so-hot aspects of the dating scene surrounding Southern California.

They pay $300 per accepted article.

51. Heroes and Heartbreakers – $1000 + 25% royalty

Popular publisher MacMillan runs this Heroes and Heartbreakers magazine.

They generally take in articles of 15k-30k words.

They pay $1,000 per story against a 25% royalty.

52. Italian America – $350 per post

True to its name, the magazine is always looking for Italian related stories and content.

They look for articles between 800 to 11000 words long.

You can expect $350 per piece.

Sites That Pay You to Write About Local Stuff

53. boulevard – $225 per post.

The Canadian-based magazine that tends to focus on the art scene in Vancouver Island.

They encourage short articles (around 850 words.)

The rate is 25 to 30 cents per word.

54. Big Grey Horse – $125-$200 per article

Big Grey Horse is a lifestyle blog from Texas.

They like blog posts written in first person POV ranging from 600 to 1,000 words.

You are paid $125 to $200 per post.

55. AMC Outdoors – $150 to $700 per article

AMC Outdoors’ main focus is on recreational activities around the Northern Appalachian.

For short submissions, you get $150 to $400.

For feature-length pieces the pay is $500 to $700.

56. Vermont Life – $600 to $800 per post

Needless to say, this one is about all things Vermont!

According to their guidelines, the standard department rate is $600, feature rate $800.

57. 1859 Oregon’s Magazine – $150 to $250 per article

1859 Oregon’s Magazine celebrates the history and lifestyle of the region.

Payment varies from $0.30/word to $0.50/word.

They pay after publication.

58. Colorado Life Magazine – $75 to $975 per story

Colorado Life Magazine is dedicated to the entire Colorado state and the magazine uses clever and colorful storytelling to illustrate the many attractions in the state.

The rate ranges from $75 to $125 for short stories and $130-$975 if they are feature-length articles.

59. Alaska Magazine – $1500 per post

Alaska Magazine is well-known for its narrative style used to describe Alaska life in general.

Payment can go up to $1,500 subject to the article length and accompanying photo(s).

60. South Carolina Living – $200 – $450 per post

This is a lifestyle magazine published for the member-owners of South Carolina’s not-for-profit electric cooperatives.

Here are the kind of content they want:

Features: Pocketbook energy issues and travel/lifestyle/general-interest topics.

Length: 1,500 to 3,000 words.

Departments SC Stories : These are one-page mini-profiles.

Length: 350 words

SC Travels : Two-page stories on interesting places to visit in South Carolina.

Length: 500-750 words

Chef’s Choice : Profiles of interesting restaurants and the people behind them.

Length: 500-700 words

61. Douglas – $0.40 per word

Douglas is a business magazine that caters to the Southern Vancouver Island’s community.

They are often interested in feature-length articles (around 1,200 to 3,00 words.)

Pay is $0.40/word.

62. New Mexico Magazine – $250 per article

This is the brainchild of the New Mexico Tourism Department.

They like “ story ideas about New Mexico experiences, with opinionated storytelling and a first-person point of view when appropriate. ”

For short articles, the pay rate is ¢35 to ¢40 per word.

Longer ones (e.g. above 600 words) can fetch up to $250 per article.

Sites That Pay You to Write for Kids & Teens

63. cicada magazine – up to $2250 per article.

Here the target market makes up largely of teenagers and young adults.

The rate is $0.25 per word, with a 9000 words cap, so the most you make is $2,250 for one single article.

64. Cricket Magazine – $0.25 per word

Cricket Magazine is a magazine for young readers.

The rate here is $0.25 for every word and they usually restrict to less than 2000 words.

Sites That Pay You to Write About Sports & Outdoor

65. canoeroots – $0.20 per word.

Canoeroots have just three publications every year, but they touch on all aspects of canoeing.

There is a limit of 2000 words on feature-length articles.

They pay $0.20 for every word.

66. Sporting Classics – $300-$700 per post

A magazine about fishing and hunting.

You will make $300-$700 for every accepted piece.

67. Blade Magazine – $150-$300 per article

As the name suggests, this one is all about knives.

Naturally, your content needs to be relevant.

You can earn between 4150 to $300 per article.

68. BirdWatching Daily – $400 per post

A magazine all about birds and bird watching.

For each accepted bird related article or photo-essay, you are paid $400.

69. Sport Fishing Magazine – $250 to $750 per post

Sport Fishing magazine offers a good rate for freelance writers.

It pays $250 for short articles and $750 for longer, feature-length articles.

70. Canoe & Kayak – $100 to $800 per article

They have been around since 1973, providing content for paddlers of every style and ability level.

They don’t mention the pay, but according to WritingCareer.com , they pay anywhere from $100 to $800 per article.

71. Hoof Beats Magazine – $100 to $500 per post

This is a magazine by The United States Trotting Association.

Obviously, this is a very niche subject so you have to know what you are talking about to get published.

Depending on the length, the pay varies from $100 to $500.

72. USDF Connection – $40 to $400 per post

This is published by the United States Dressage Federation.

They look for:

health articles
personality profiles
how-to training articles
and first-person accounts of life in the dressage world

You can expect to be paid $40 to $400 based on the length and depth of your submission.

73. Wooden Boat – $250 to $300 per post

A bi-monthly magazine for wooden boat owners, builders, and designers.

They pay $250 to $300 for pieces containing around a 1000 word.

74. KungFuMagazine – Pay unknown

They look for Martial Arts related content – training, techniques, history, weapons, philosophy, well-known martial artists, etc.

They don’t mention the pay on their site.

75. Black Belt Magazine – $150 to $300 per post

According to the magazine, Black Belt Magazine is the oldest martial arts magazine in the U.S.

They pay $150 to $300 per article.

76. Boys’ Quest – $0.05 per word

This is an educational magazine for young boys that only publishes six issues each year.

They look for “lively writing” that explains things from a 10-year-old boy’s point of view.

They like short articles between 500 to 750 words long.

You are paid ¢5 per word.

77. The Chronicle of the Horse – $150 to $250 per news story

This is a magazine founded in 1973 geared towards dressage, hunters and jumpers, eventing, foxhunting, and steeplechase racing.

They accept the following submissions:

News stories

Length: 1500 words
Pay: $165-$220

Feature Articles

Length: 1500-2500 words
Pay: $150-$400.
They also accept photographs which they pay $30 to $50 for each.

78. Kitplanes – $250 to $1,000 per post

This one calls itself “the leading independent voice of kit and amateur-built aircraft construction.”

They don’t have any restrictions on article length, but a typical article contains around 200 words.

They do pay generously, though – $250 to $1,000 per accepted piece.

79. Backpacker – up to $1 per word

As the name implies, this one focuses on hiking/backpacking related activities.

The payout can be as much as one dollar for every word subject to the complexity of the topic and your credential as a writer in this particular field.

80. Gray’s Sporting Journal – $100 to $1250 per feature article, $600 for yarns, and $100 per poem

Grays Sporting Journal revolves around the great outdoor, like hiking, fishing, hunting, etc.

The pay scale varies depending on the type of content. And according to the site, they pay based on quality, not length.

Here are the numbers according to the site:

Feature articles: $600-$1250,
Yarns: $600
Poems: $100
Expeditions pieces: $850 to $1,000 plus $75 per picture published.

For the photographers among you, they also pay for pictures – anywhere from $50 to $300 per photo.

All payment is made upon publication.

81. Horse & Rider – $25 to $400 per post

As you’ve probably figured it out already, this is a magazine for fans of horse riding, and as such, they want content related to horses and riders.

Their payment scale ranges from $25 to $400, depending on article length, department, and research.

Sites That Pay You to Write About DIY & Home Improvement

82. popular woodworking – $250 per post.

If you know a lot about woodworking or like to write about it, this one is for you.

They pay up to $250 for a 600-word-long article.

Sites That Pay You to Write About Art

83. beat&button – $400 per post.

This is an online publication by Kalmbach Publishing Co.

It acts as a resource for everything jewelry-making. From projects and how-to guides to inspirations, tips, and interviews with big designers.

You can earn up to $400 for feature-length article.

84. Howlround – $150 per post

Howlround is a site for theater lovers.

They make it very easy to pitch your content using their online form.

By filling out the form you give ’em a summary of what you want to write about, what section of the magazine it is for, and a little background about yourself.

You are paid up to $150 per published piece.

85. SpinOff – $50 per page

SpinOff is the magazine to go to when it comes to hand spinning yarns and fibers.

They pay per page and one page pays $50.

You can submit a maximum of 6 pages (or use 2,700 words as a guideline).

86. HOW – $250 to $800 per post

HOW is all about graphics design – from tutorials and guides, to inspirations, show cases and more.

They pay based on a set fee instead of per word.

Columns in HOW typically run around 1,200 words, while features are 1,500–2,000 words.

You can expect between $250 to $800, subject to stories covered and also the credential of writers.

87. The Artist’s Magazine – $400 to $600 per post

With a circulation of 60,000, The Artist’s Magazine is one of the biggest publications focus on art exclusively.

They like practical lessons, engaging interviews, lively discussions of timely issues and news of exhibitions and events.

Expect anywhere between $400 to $600 per piece.

88. Pastel Journal – up to $600 per post

According to the site, Pastel Journal is “the only national magazine devoted to the pastel medium.”

It’s a bi-monthly publication with interviews, how-to demonstrations, and more.

According to their guidelines (found in this PDF,) they pay up to $600 for feature articles that can range anywhere from approximately 500 to 2,000 words.

89. Ceramics Monthly – $0.10 per word

This one is all about making things out of clay.

And if you can write about this craft, you can earn ¢10 per word.

90. The Earth Island Journal – $0.25 per word

The Earth Island Journal looks for “ compelling and distinctive stories that anticipate environmental concerns before they become pressing problems, stories that scan the horizon for the next big issue. ”

¢25 cents per word for print stories.
$750-$1000 for an in-depth feature story (about 4,000 words.)
$50-$100 for online reports.

91. Western Art & Architecture – $400 to $600 per article

This is a magazine for “ art collectors and architecture aficionados across the United States. ”

They have a few different columns and their pay varies based on which column you write for.

The columns include:

Artist profiles
Home features
Illuminations
In the Studio
Perspective
Western Landmark
Collector’s Eye

The pay ranges from $400 to $600 per piece.

92. Writers Digest – $300 for a 600-word article

Writer’s Digest calls itself “ the No. 1 magazine for writers. ”

It is published eight times a year and its main focus is to help writers write better and get published.

The pay structure

They pay ¢30 to ¢50 per word for manuscripts, for one-time print use and perpetual electronic use.

However, if they decide to reprint any of the content they purchased from you, you get %25 of the original purchase price per use.

So if your original piece was bought from you for $300 and they decide to reprint it, you get paid 25% of $300 which is $75.

And that’s per use. So if they use it 5 times, you earn a total of $375.

Sites That Pay You to Write About Science

93. analog – $0.08 to $0.10 per word.

This is an established market for science fiction stories.

Here is the pay structure:

Short Fictions (up to 20,000 words): ¢8 to ¢10 per word
Serials (40,000-80,000 words): ¢6 per word
Fact Articles : ¢9 per word
Poetry : $1 per line

Sites That Pay You to Write About Farm & Gardening

94. the american gardener – $150 to $600 per post.

The American Gardener is the official publication of the American Horticultural Society.

It is a 64-page bimonthly magazine with nearly 20,000 members.

Topics include anything and everything about gardening.

For shorter articles, they pay $150 to $200.

Feature-length articles will fetch $300-$600.

95. Hobby Farms – $300 per post

As the name suggests, Hobby Farms is a magazine for hobbyist farmers.

They don’t publish their rates so expect to do some negotiation, but they are known to pay up to $300 for feature-length articles.

Sites That Pay You to Write About Web & Technology

96. a list apart – up to $200 per post.

A List Apart is a site dedicated to “ people who make websites. ”

They publish three types of content:

Features (between 1500 to 2500 words): Pays $200
Articles (between 600 to 1500 words): Pays $100
Mini-articles (between 500 to 600 words): Pays $50

97. iPhone Life Magazine – $50 to $100 per post

iPhone Life Magazine has a large audience of avid iOS users.

So if you can write about the iOS platform and anything related, this is a good choice.

Expect anywhere from $50 to $100 per piece.

98. The Layout – $50 to $100 per post

The Layout is all about the world’s best and most used CMS (Content Management System), WordPress (Yes, MoneyPantry runs on WordPress!)

They accept anything WordPress-related.

They like articles between 700 to 1200 words long.

Expect between $50 to $150 per accepted piece.

99. PhotoshopTutorials.ws – $25 to $300 per tutorial

Similar to the Layout, PhotoshopTutorials.ws also features great instructional stuff, but its focus is on Photoshop.

Articles : $25-$50
Quick tips : $50
Full tutorials : $150-$300

100. DigitalOcean – $100 to $200 per tutorial

DigitlaOcean is an awesome cloud hosting service with tons of features.

They also serve as a kind of library for tutorials and step-by-step guides about Linux and FreeBSD cloud hosting.

A full tutorial will earn you $200 while shorter guides can earn you around $100.

101. Polygon – $0.25 per word

Polygon targets computer/video games.

They encourage short stories (approx 500 words.)

Expect ¢25 per word.

New additions

103. unemploymentville – $50 to $100 per post.

This is a site for “ anyone who has felt the sting of being out of work. ”

It’s a rather new site suggested by one of our readers.

Articles should be at least 350 words.

They pay $50 to $100 per article.

Final Words

There you have it, over 100 online magazines and publications that will pay you to write on a variety of subjects.

If you know of any other source, please share it by leaving a comment below.

Please be sure to bookmark and share this post on your social media accounts and check back often for updated versions with more sites.

And remember, this list by no means is a complete list. I’ll be adding to this list as I find other online magazines and websites that pay you to blog.

A great Article. I would like to see more sources around sport and around Geography but, thanks for the great resources.

I wish to write an article of sports and geographic with sources.

Hello Mr. potter. I would like to write an article about Geography with related sources as recommended and also with their favorable references. Thanks

I would submit a article to you and where should I submit it

Thank you for excellent collection of writer’s markets!

I just wanted to let you know that the first link listed under

“Special Interest”

33. Pentimento – $250 per post

is incorrect (the url listed <> takes readers to a Japanese website titled Professional Coin)

As a professional freelance writer with a genuine interest in submitting to this publication, I did search and find the correct URL –

Thanks again

Hi Christie,

Thank you for letting us know. The URL somehow got mixed up when I was publishing the post. I updated the post with the correct URL.

Thanks for your great contribution.

If you have any list of Guest post Website paid or unpaid who accept the post .

Please, let me know .

Sam, I’ve listed all that I know of in this post. Thanks!

There is something wrong with the Sites That Pay You to Write About Farm & Gardening. When I click the link for # 94. The American Gardener – $150 to $600 per post it takes me to an AdventHealth page. Please fix it. And of course, thanks a lot for the article.

Thanks for the heads up, the link is fixed now!

Would you mind sharing your social media handles. I have some further questions for you.

Bonjour , Donnez nous ce lien correcte svp. merci

This is a great resource for writers! We’re looking for writers as well at 29times.com feel free to pitch us your ideas and we’ll pay you for your posts.

Guess you don’t write in English as the site is in Mandarin language or so.

Please consider adding the following to this list. Unemploymentville.com, a place for anyone who has felt the sting of being out of work, is looking for reader contributions to the blog and we’re willing to pay for them ($50 – $100).

Thanks, Anne

Added to the list. Thanks, Anne.

Hello Anne,

How does this reading contribution work? How does one get paid? Hoping for your warm response.

That’s a great list of websites for writers. Thank you for all the research and hard work you put into it.

I’ve already gotten a few paid gigs out of these. Thanks.

You are welcome Peter. I am happy for your success.

Which sites did you submit to for such a swift payment? I’ve submitted to a few of these but the review time is very long.

Your article is poorly written (and it’s about writing!) Also misleading. The chances for acceptance by many of these publications is very low for the average freelancer. Writers have enough struggles and don’t need false hopes and misinformation.

Sorry for the “poorly written” article. I don’t claim to be a professional writer. And this post isn’t a “how to be a better write” kind of post. Just a list of places that pay freelance writers. That’s all.

As for it being misleading, I don’t see that at all. At no point in this article have I suggested that this is walk in the park and that everyone is going to get their submissions accepted. I’d think if you are a freelance writer, you’d already know that not every single article you submit is going to get accepted.

Scary Mommy no longer pays.

Thanks so much to taking the time to let us know, Maureen. I really appreciate it.

This will definitely take some time to research properly, thanks for such an informative article. There are many writing jobs and opportunities online. I also use sites like Freelancer, Upwork and Guru. The key is to provide relevant and useful content regardless of the site you choose. Content is the king of sales.

A Great article. As usual Moneypantry have something useful to share. Thank you for the useful write-up , Satrap. As for some of the above comments-of course , there is no guarantee, when submit an article it will be automatically approved. In fact there are many cases when one publisher will refuse to post your text, while another will be happy to do it

Natalie, Thanks for the feedback, I’m glad you find the site useful!

Hi! I would like to ask some questions:

Are they taking in articles during the quarantine? And how long until they can pay us after submitting an article for them? Also, I would like to hear some people earning from these gigs, share your experience to me who is interested in entering this kind of online gig.

Thanks a lot!

Hi Jenny, as far as what they are accepting and their payment terms, you’d need to contact to the sites that you’re interested in writing for directly. Thanks for reading, and keep us updated on your progress!

Thanks for the time you take to share such useful information. This is what I needed a long time ago. May God bless you.

The flexibility and sheer amount of opportunity that comes along with freelance writing makes it a fantastic side hustle for anyone who enjoys to write. It can be worked into any college student’s schedule and can be a great side income for everyone looking to accelerate student loan pay-off.

This seems like a pretty legit website from my perspective, and it as well pays quite alot of money then a lot of jobs, and no eduction required.

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how to submit a article

Sambosa, each site has a different option. You can find out how and where to send your article by visiting the pages we linked to.

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No, you don’t need a business or website. Just contact the site and take it from there.

This is a great way to make some possibly quick money.

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I love writing and sharing thought

Im just newbie here …i want to explore even more on this cites to know more..

Your work is very nice. Nowadays this is great to share on the internet. keep it up thanks for sharing with us such nice content.

Writing has always been my hobby and one way of pouring myself out invade am too happy or sad. am so happy for these sites because they help some of us to put our brains at work

I am a newbie here. I just want to explore since I am newbie here

I love to write article and post them in web by sharing my thoughts. I love writing!!!!!!!!

@ Peter, Pls I need your help to give me a guide on how to post/submit the article (gig)

Hey! Great info! I got the idea to come to your list here from a YT video sometime back. Unfortunately it took me a while to really get serious about doing this, so I am just now actually trying to begin submitting articles. However, a year ago there seemed to be some mags where I could submit self-help. But after going through your list, I’m very sorry to see that their seems to be nothing for that genre? And I am really surprised actually. I thought vibrant life lets you submit self-help but now I see it’s only from a Christian perspective. The only mags I also see here that offer for articles on spirituality/meditation are also ONLY Christian perspective pieces accepted it seems. I know you have listed here all you know. Just hoping maybe you’ll keep an eye for self-help? OR someone who reads this comment may hopefully have a suggestion. BTW: Idk what ole “Bivitus'” problem is in one of the previously written comments. But he comes off like a real ungrateful jerk quite frankly! So sorry someone has the uncouthness to say something not only THAT RUDE, but also just plain inaccurate! Thank you so much for posting these helpful resources. Yes, most of your readers have enough common sense to know we actually have to do some real work AND have some real talent to get published! Apparently “Bivitus” doesn’t make that cut, and is taking HIS inadequacies out on you! Again so sorry about that! You don’t deserve it!

Hi! I’m looking for a site to publish something I wrote following my return home after being wrecked by a drunk woman driver. It is a first person writing about what it was like in the days afterward. Can you suggest a place to publish this?

Thank you very much for the useful information

You are very welcome, Michael. Thank you for being a loyal visitor and reader of MoneyPantry.

I like reading articles

I am glad you like our posts, Alice. Is there any topic you would like us to cover?

Great article. I have written for many websites but I need more outlet as I have great passion for writing about making money, small businesses and startups. I can be reached on chinaza.favouribe @ gmaildotcom

Thanks for this article. The Alaska Airlines link doesn’t work.

We’ve updated the link, thank you!

Hello there! Thank you for this article. But I can find a link to apply for a job in most I mean all of the sites that are listed with the link.

Apparently, the link directs me to a page where I don’t see anywhere to apply

Please help me

Sorry about that. Which site/link specifically doesn’t work for you?

Wonderful website. …I like reading articles

Thanks for the kind words, Laura.

I’m from the Caribbean, more specifically Trinidad. Are non Americans eligible to apply for these websites?

Some do and some don’t You have to check with each site. I think as long as you are good writer, most of these sites don’t care where you live and are from. If your content is good, they’ll pay for it.

If you are unsure, you can easily contact them via their contact page.

I’m interested in learning something new!!!!

Wonderful article, and wide information for writers to share their talents. I’ll try my own.Thanks a lot for sharing the very useful article. God blees

I’m interested in learning something new and love writing

what about the site food pays for food and nutrition

Thanks for all sites.

Could you please let me know where to publish a mechanical article ?

Thanks in advance

Dr. Anil, I know Popular Mechanics accepts submission. I don’t know how much they pay per article, but you can find out more about their submission guidelines here .

Hi, I would like to write some articles on various topics but as I am in the U.K. would this be an issue as all payments are in American currency. You don’t see many adverts for U.K. based sites for starting a new career option.

I don’t think it will be a problem if you are in the U.K. Most pay by PayPal and PayPal automatically converts U.S. Dollar to GBP.

Hi Do they pay us when they approve your article? Or without approval? How do they pay? Do they pay us $ 1,000 or more?

Each site has different rules. Usually they pay once they approved your article.

Hallo I hope that you add the categorie stories for children.

i love the idea of wrtting i would like to give it a try

Writing is one of the things that piqued my interest. I hope to look forward to this opportunity and would be a pleasure to give it a try.

I love the idea of expressing my experience and ideas and getting paid

You could add listverse to this list.

Hello, Thanks for all those links. I was find this service by hasard it was amazing for how wants to earn money. A lot of love❤❤.

Hi I would like to write about health ,religion ,sports & arts

Hi, which ones pay faster please?

Alex, it depends. If you read the post, you’ll see we have included all the details including how fast each one of these paid writing sites sends payments.

Buenas noches, se puede hacer articulos en idioma español o solo en ingles?

Hola Anderson, Desafortunadamente, la mayoría de ellos solo aceptan artículos en inglés.

wow it’s a big upportunity to make money,

Estoy desempleado ojala sea verdad.

Alex, I am sorry you are having a hard time finding a job. But yes, these sites are legit and do pay. But you do need to be able to write in English.

THIS PLATFORM APPLIES TO PANAMA ??

As long as you can write in English, it doesn’t really matter where you live.

what must i write about

Each site has a list of topics they need content for. Just visit the ones you like and see the topics you can write about.

how i upload my story tell me

Kavish, just visit any of the site’s we linked to above, then use their contact page to send them your article.

Hi where are the Table of Contents so you can look at the different topics?

Ceran, please look for “What will I learn?”. It’s right before the first heading in the post.

where is submit article

Muhammad, Click the link to whichever site you are interested in and you will find the submission page and other related info on that page.

Where can I found the page to submit my article?

Romanus, click the link to whichever site you are interested in and you will find the submission page and other related info on that page.

Please remove the listing for The American Gardener (#94) from your site. We don’t have a blog and DO NOT pay for posts of any kind. Also, we DO NOT cover farming or agriculture, as your listing indicates.

Thanks for the update David. When we originally published the post, we found the info on your site. In fact, on your writer guidelines page it still shows pay for feature articles ranging between $300-$600. Nonetheless, I will remove the link as per your request.

Hello, Cricket Magazine is not about sports; it is a magazine for children ages 9-14. Ladybug and Spider are other magazines by the same publisher. Best wishes!

Thank you Sandy. I updated the post.

Please update #60 url it is invalis

Done! Thank you!

i have submitted an article and can i get its details from here

how to give them completed article and get paid

Jujhar, you can send them the article via email or upload them directly to their site. They have instruction on their site (that we linked to).

hello please I would like to know how to submit a request please thank you

Adam, each site has its own process. Go to their submission page (links in the post) and follow their guidelines.

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Ever been in an emergency and said to yourself I need money now? If so, there are so many ways to get money fast. But have you ever thought that you can write and get paid instantly from the comfort of your home? If you haven’t, I have good news for you. You can get paid instantly through PayPal writing articles.

Can writing replace your full-time job? While at the beginning it might not, it can replace your full-time job once you get into it and learn the ropes. In the beginning, it can be challenging to find jobs but things get easier as you learn how to wow clients and keep them forever. However, writing is not a make money quick scheme and it’s not for the faint-hearted.

If you are gifted in writing, you can turn your skill into a money-making machine. Whether you need instant cash or just need a long-term side hustle, writing can help you pay your bills. In this article, I’m going to share the easy ways to write and get paid instantly while working around your existing schedule.

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Before I share the ways you can use to write and earn money, I want to share some of the things you need to get started as a freelance writer. While some opt to start without having at some of the things I mention below, it’s important to check this list.

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Things you need to start your freelance writing

Since you are new, you will need a few things to get paid instantly to write.

Know yourself

Before anything, identify what you are good at. For example, if you are good at writing fiction you will have to focus on that. If you are good at writing blog posts, that is what you will focus on. Knowing who you are, helps you to know what to do and where to find clients. In simple terms, I’m saying, know your passion, your area of interest or expertise. As I said earlier, this makes it easy to find jobs when you know what you are interested in or passionate about.

For instance, if you are a doctor, you could become a freelance writer focusing on topics in the medical or health niche. This can be easy for you because you understand that field more than anything else. Well, what are some of the skills that you have in the present job that you can use to write articles and get paid instantly today? Start finding yourself now.

Even if you are gifted in writing, you need to know how writing for websites works . There are online terminologies that clients may use and you might not be aware of them. Spend some days learning about these things. Most freelance writing courses are not expensive and you can spend only a few days learning. You don’t need an entire month to learn these writing skills. Getting training will help you know the article writing formats that you can use, where to find clients, and the different types of articles available. Check this freelance writing course here and this is what is known as investing in yourself.

A laptop in good condition

You need a laptop with the current operating software and a good text editor such as Microsoft Word or Write! . This can help you write and save your content before submitting it. You don’t need $1000 to find a good laptop. Even with as low as $500, you can find the best laptops for writers on a budget . If you are new to text editors, you need to learn this as well. If you can’t find a good laptop, consider working from a library or cyber. But this only depends on your working times and can be a good option if you work during the day.

Write articles and get paid instantly

Now that you know the key things that you need when starting out your freelance writing career, here are some of the sites where you can write articles and earn money instantly. You can write and get paid instantly in the UK or Africa.

Write for Best Pickist

This is a website that focuses on user guides and buying guides on different products. If you are a product review writer or can write ultimate guides or the best 10 kind of articles, this is your chance to get paid instantly. In their instructions , the website directs that you must target long-tail keywords. Also, if you are a lifestyle writer, you can get paid to write for this website. Make sure your article is not less than 1000 words .

The good thing with Best Pickist is that you set your rates. You can also apply as a guest writer or paid writer. If you don’t want to be paid to write for this website???, you can apply as a guest writer. Apply here to start writing and make sure you follow all their instructions.

Get paid to share your true story with RD

Do you have a true-life story that you think could interest someone to read? If you said yes, Reader’s Digest will pay you $100 to send them or share your true story in 100 words or less. So, this means you have to be creative to impress someone in just 100 words. If you think you are up for the game, see their guidelines here and get paid $100 for 100 words.

Get Paid $100 by Listverse

Listverse will pay you 100 dollars to write for them if you are from the following countries; South Africa, the US, Ireland, the UK, Canada, NZ, and Australia. If you have good English, love interesting or unusual things, and have a good sense of humor, this website will pay you to write for them. All they need is for you to write a list of ten items and talk about them in two paragraphs and send it to them. If they like your content, they will pay you $100 . Ready to make $100 ? Check their guidelines here and write and get paid instantly.

This is one of the best platforms where you should start your freelance writing career. The best thing about dotWriter is that you write articles and sell them at your preferred price. You also have editors for free to check your content. It’s like you are learning while being paid to write. Instead of you searching for clients, it’s them who search for your content. That means if you write good content, you can make good money from this platform.

Let’s say you write 10 articles every month and you sell each at $30. That means you have $300 extra money each month. Do you see how you can easily make 300 dollars fast every month? What are you waiting for? Sign up here . If you are also looking for content for your website, you can get it on this platform.

Write and get paid instantly by Fiverr

Fiverr is a freelance website whose headquarter is in Tel Aviv, Israel. You can use this platform to sell or buy services. Whether you are a writer or a transcriber, this website is for everyone. All you need is to sign up and start creating gigs to sell to clients. Gigs start from as low as $5. You price your gig and decide how much clients should pay you for your services.

Let’s say this platform offers you an opportunity for low-paying writing gigs. For example, you can create a gig like, I will a 500-word article for $15. The amount you can earn a month depends on how many gigs you sell and how much you charge. Make sure you include all the details of your services on your gig. Here is a guide on how to succeed selling on Fiverr .

While you can get paid to write on OneSpace, there are other tasks that you can do on this platform to earn extra dollars. The website offers tasks from research to data entry. And since most of the jobs on OneSpace are easy to handle, it makes it a good platform for beginners. Therefore, when you sign up on this site, expect to do more than write. For this website, you will need to register and take some tests, and if you pass, you will start seeing jobs for your level.

There are four levels of proficiency and they include beginner, intermediate, advanced, and expert level. As you move to the next level, your earnings increase. Apart from that, this platform has a proficiency leveling program where freelancers who write great articles get rewarded. Sign up for free here and get paid to transcribe or write.

Write for cracked.com ( They no longer pay writers)

Are you creative and passionate about writing? If you do, get paid to write listicle articles for cracked.com. Also, in case you enjoy comedy writing or sharing comedy images, this website will pay you to do exactly that. They are always in need of people who can create exciting, educational images that people are willing to share on different social media platforms. Examples of content they want include “ Time, 24 Beautifully-Acted Scenes You Probably Missed.” If the above describes you, check out their write for us page here . You could earn up to $200 per post.

The Penny Hoarder

This website will pay you to write original articles on various topics. They want articles that are very informative and can assist their readers to earn, save or increase their money. If you have some actionable tips that you can share with the readers or audience of The Penny Hoarder website, this is your chance to make money writing. They prefer articles to be at 700 words. See their guidelines here . However, you will not write and get paid instantly. But if you send them a pitch and they accept it, only then will the editors will discuss your payment. Not sure how to do this? Check out these tips .

IncomeDiary

Ever heard of this website before? If not, you need to check it out now. But wait! IncomeDiary will pay you between $200 and $500 to write informative and comprehensive blog posts on keyword research and specifically using tools like SemRush or Ahrefs. If you have experience or expert knowledge in search engine optimization, feel free to pitch them here .

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Get paid to write for LiisBeth

Are you a feminist and can’t find somewhere to share your views on politics and entrepreneurship? Don’t worry, you can get paid $100+ to write or share your perspective. LiisBeth is an online magazine that welcomes contributions from great writers like you who want to get paid instantly. They welcome contributions in these areas of enterprise, innovation, feminism, and policy and systems critique. You can read more about their contributor guidelines here if you are ready to write and get paid instantly.

While you may not write and get paid instantly, you will, in the end, make good money. What we want to prove here is that you can make money writing as a freelancer. Now that you know where to get writing gigs, have you identified your area of expertise?

Get Paid to Write: 64 Sites That Pay Up to $2000 per Post

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Are you are a freelance writer who would like to get paid to write? Better yet, are you looking for a high paid writing job to start your small business ?

How about gaining some serious exposure at the same time you’re making some cash? This can seriously elevate your future writing opportunities.

There are tons of online writing jobs including publications, blogs, video script writing, eBooks, magazines, trade journals..and the list goes on. In other words, if you have writing chops, your skills are sought after.

In fact, there has never been a better time for freelance writers to find work.

With this massive demand for writers, now is the time to seize the moment.

In this guide, I will outline the types of writing jobs in hot demand. And, where to find these online writing jobs – whether from websites, blogs or digital magazines. Most have a significant subscriber base and are well respected- which means publicity for you.

If you can get paid to write with a known publication, that’s a perfect transition to more writing opportunities.

You can establish your credibility by writing for an authority in the industry.

And here’s the thing, even if one doesn’t accept your article or pitch, that doesn’t mean the next one won’t’ either. It’s a numbers game and requires some effort.

Get paid to write – Your writing pitch

Table of Contents

Make sure you when pitching yourself to the editor, you tell them your idea, why it’s unique and what value you can add to their readers.

It’s best to familiarize yourself with the content and tone for each blog or publication by spending a little bit of time reading through their various topics.

Spend some time thinking through your ideas. Jot down several topics and eliminate the ones that suck.

Keep in mind, writing for a magazine is different than writing for a blog. The same goes for a trade publication or writing a video script.

You will need to know from what point of view you should write, whether it’s opinion based or not, and who their audience is. Can you be chatty or does the piece require a more formal tone? Does the publication entertain, inform or educate? Is it marketing copy? If so, that likely requires a different approach.

Wouldn’t you love your article being featured in one of these publications? Now’s your chance and don’t forget to let me know if you get printed. I want a commission. 🙂

I include a variety of websites that have paid writing jobs for different types of industries and writing styles.

By the way, most of these writing jobs pay pretty well.

And these are perfect for remote workers so you can be anywhere in the world or work from home if that’s your thing.

Blog writing has evolved. What began as a way to share thoughts, feelings, and ideas with others online back in 1994 has rapidly become a way for businesses to reach new customers. Blogs have become powerful learning tools and ways to establish brands as thought leaders in their industries.

Businesses need blog writers like you to get paid to write. They want the content to be regularly posted on their blogs that will answer their customers’ burning questions, go viral, and ultimately lead to more website visits.

You can earn from $50.00 to over $1,000 for one job depending on the number of articles you’re producing, your level of experience, and the amount of work you’re expected to put into each article.

Blog writers typically charge a per-word rate.

Inexperienced blog writers usually charge $0.03 per word while more experienced blog writers usually charge between $0.05 and $0.25 per word. Higher rates are usually charged by blog writers with tertiary-level degrees in a related field and an extensive portfolio featuring work on reputable websites.

You can also charge higher rates if you have verifiable proof of how your writing has helped brands get more website views and clicks. This makes increasing your knowledge about SEO best practices in writing a must. The quality of your writing must be above-par, but the words you craft must also reach the right people.

Understanding and utilizing SEO best practices is, therefore, mandatory if you want to make yourself more marketable as a blog writer.

Magazine Freelancer

Digital magazines are increasing in popularity. In fact, a report cited on the FlipSnack blog reveals that “59 percent of magazine readers say the digital edition is most important.” The move to digital means that magazine article writers are in demand.

The role of a magazine freelancer depends on the nature of the magazine. Some possible roles include:

According to the Adventurous Writer , the following rates are applicable to magazine freelance writers who get paid to write:

Get Paid to Write by Ghostwriting

Ghostwriting is a broad field that includes a wide range of niches.

A ghostwriter’s role is to write content without being credited for the work. All rights to the work are signed over to the client upon completion.

It’s difficult to narrow down a particular industry rate for this service since the field is so diverse. Sticking to a per-word charge helps level the playing field a bit. However, a per-word charge may not be appropriate in all instances. Regardless, your per-word charge would depend on your skill level and experience.

Technical Writing

Technical writing is one of the areas in which freelance writers can get a big payout. This type of writing is industry-specific and requires expert knowledge in a field. Clients looking for technical writers are looking for writers who can make technical content easily digestible.

It’s not about writing content that seems out of the reach of the average reader. For instance, an IT writer should be able to clearly explain how to solve a common IT problem in a way that someone outside the field can easily understand. This requires special skills and, therefore, attracts a higher fee than the average freelance writer.

Upwork states that the average rate for technical writers ranges from $30 to $60 per hour. However, this fee can go to as high as $125 per hour. To get paid to write in technical writing is a great skill!

Get Paid to Write E-Books

More businesses are using eBooks as lead-generation tools. This has expanded the eBook writing market to include not only people looking for fiction and personal development books but also entrepreneurs looking for books to help increase their brand’s appeal.

You may have a knack for fiction or personal development writing. That’s a good place to start in the eBook writing niche. However, expanding to include writing short eBooks as lead-generation tools for entrepreneurs can be lucrative.

EBook ghostwriters can earn thousands of dollars per project depending on the nature of the project and their level of experience.

Trade Magazine Writer

Trade magazines are industry-specific. They’re written to appeal to professionals within an industry. For instance, Education Week is a trade magazine specifically written for education professionals.

Some trade magazines require writers who have specific industry knowledge. Others are more general. You can find trade magazines that you’d be interested in writing pitches for by typing “[name of the industry] + trade magazine” into Google’s search engine.

A trade magazine writer’s fees would be similar to those of a magazine freelance writer. They would also play similar roles.

Proofreader

Wherever there’s content, there’s a need for a proofreader. Freelance writers often find it tedious to re-read their content and identify and correct errors. They spend so much time writing the content that proofreading seems like a chore.

Proofread jobs help solve this problem. There are some freelance writers who offer both writing and proofreading services. Others focus exclusively on proofreading. If you have mastered your target language and pay attention to finer details, this job may just be right for you.

The average rate charged by proofreaders ranges from $10 to $45 per hour.

Video scriptwriters usually charge per minute of video. These rates typically range from $80 to $100 per minute.

An article about freelance writing jobs would be incomplete without discussing translators. Translators aren’t only needed to facilitate verbal communication amongst people who speak different languages. They’re also needed for the written word. If you’re bilingual and can write well in both languages, this is the right fit for you.

Translators typically charge between $30 and $50 per hour. Some also charge a per-word rate that starts at $0.10 per word.

Where to find online writing jobs

These are mostly highly paid writing jobs. We include a variety of publications and blogs where you get paid to write. And if they’re not, as mentioned above, the exposure if worth so much more.

1. Early American Life

Pay:$500.00 This publication covers American life from its founding to the mid-1800s with a diverse range of topics including travel, crafts, history, and architecture.

2. Eating Well Pay:$1.00/word Eating Well’s magazine has a circulation of about 850,000 and its content is exclusively about healthy eating. They cover healthy cooking, social issues, nutrition science and the origins of food.

3. The Income Spot Pay: N/A – The program is being revamped. Write for us here at The Income Spot. We are looking for 1800 words on topics related to freelancing, working remote, solopreneurism, and micro business ideas. Must be written from a unique perspective, in a conversational and friendly writing style. It’s imperative that the article is well researched, provides value and is helpful to our audience. We especially are interested in case study articles ( paid at a higher rate) showcasing successful solopreneurs.

4. Boy’s Life Pay:$500-1500 Boy’s life is a publication as the name suggests geared towards boys aged 6 to 17. They cover a variety of topics that would appeal to this age group. So if you’re a writer with boys, this could be a solid writing gig. Their circulation is around 1 million.

5. The American Horticultural Society Pay: $300-600 Their readers are primarily made up of amateur gardeners. Some of the topics include garden design, heirloom gardening, and environmentally responsible practices.

6. The Threepenny Review Pay:$400.00 This publication is on a quarterly schedule and content includes fiction, memoirs, and poetry. Their article submission period runs from January to the end of June.

7. Marie Claire Pay: $300.00 and up Marie Claire writes about a variety of topics from food, health, fitness, culture and more. Focuses on women, all around the world. Circulation is over 1.5 million.

8. Redbook Pay: Unknown Redbook’s target readers are women age 25-45. They like provocative writers that can entertain and inform.

9. Bride & Groom Magazine Pay: Unknown Bride & Groom Magazine looks for completed articles about wedding planning and trends.

10. Parents Pay: Not published but sources say up to $1.75 per word. As a national publication, they are looking for parental articles that suit a wide audience. Their mission is to help parents raise happy and healthy families.

11. Vibrant Life Pay: $100-$300 Vibrant Life’s audience consists of men and women. The articles they seek include tips and advice for recipes, self-help, green living, exercise, and weight management.

12. Delta Sky Pay: $1.00/word Delta Sky is looking for unique content centered around national or international interests. If you’re going to write about London or Paris, it’s best to stay away from topics that have already been covered to death – unless you have a unique angle. A story about something current, such as a new restaurant, events, or trends is of interest to them.

13. The Sun Pay:$100- $2000 The Sun looks for thought-provoking pieces on culture and political issues. They are ad-free and 100% reader-supported publications.

14. Smithsonian Magazine Pay: Unknown Smithsonian publishes content and seeks freelance writers to author articles about art, science, and pop culture.

15. Sunset Magazine Pay: Unknown Sunset Magazine has a circulation of 1 million subscribers and covers 13 western states in the U.S. Freelance writers should write in a friendly, informative, and opinionated style. Although much of the content is written by staff, they accept freelancers for their articles about home renovation and new homes. Most of their audience is consumers so avoid design jargon.

16. Dogster Pay: Unknown Dogster is all about dogs, health, training, nutrition, and lifestyle. This is a part-time gig and Dogster is looking for someone who can write several posts per week.

17. Bird Watching Pay: $400 BirdWatching Magazine has a bi-monthly circulation with articles about wild birds and bird watching. They are looking for fresh unique stories written from a unique perspective that hasn’t been told before.

18. Montana Outdoors Pay: Unknown Montana Outdoors is a smaller publication with about 48k subscribers. They look for original articles about fish, wildlife, and the outdoors. How-to articles, natural history, and conservation are some of the topics you can pitch.

19. Great Escape Publishing Pay: $150 for 300-600 words If you’re into exploring the globe, this could be perfect for you. Great Escape Publishing looks for articles about travel writing, import-export, nomad living, and travel photography. It’s recommended to subscribe to their newsletter so you can get a feel for the theme of what they publish.

20. Asana International Yoga Pay: None This is not a paid gig but rather an exposure opportunity that frequently leads to paid jobs. Asana is an international Yoga Magazine. They are looking for short articles on yoga – advice, events, or news.

21. Curbly Pay: Unknown Curbly writes about IKEA hacks, home organization, and interior design. They’re open to unique perspectives and ideas.

22. Writersweekly.com Pay: $60.00 WritersWeekly is seeking writers who write about making money – doing work that they love and are passionate about.

23. Back to College Pay: $55.00 Back to college is looking for articles related to older students and topics include experiences of re-entry students, financial aid, best practices, and other resourceful information.

24. Transitions Abroad Pay: Unknown Transitions Abroad seek a practical writing style from first-hand experiences that inspire passionate travelers to explore the world, enjoy the culture and respect the natives.

25. MotorHome Magazine Pay: $900 Motorhome Magazine is focused on all aspects of the RV Lifestyle. Article length can vary from 900 to 2000 words. They seek articles about the technical aspects of motorhomes and tips on traveling with motorhomes.

26. Money Pantry Pay: $150 Moneypantry is all about saving and making money. Looking for a friendly writing style focused on, above all, helping the reader.

27. Elite Personal Finance Pay: $100 You can write about a variety of personal finance topics: credit cards, loans, identity theft, and making and saving money.

28. Money Crashers Pay: Unknown Money Crashers likes lengthy content pieces centered on personal finance.

29. Cracked Pay: $100 Cracked looks for funny, smart, and creative writers. If you’re a beginner, that’s fine too. According to SimilarWeb traffic stats, they get 16 million visitors per month so this is an epic opportunity to get noticed.

30. Meredith Pay: $1.25 per word. Meredith Magazine focuses its audience on parents with children from the ages 3-12. They have approximately 2 million subscribers and topics are related to family, holidays, cooking, and parties. You can also write about common household problems and affordable ways to celebrate the holidays.

31. Travel+Leisure Pay: Unknown With over 6 million monthly visitors, Travel & Leisure is all about travel – including everything from guides, travel-saving tips, festivals, and the best places to travel for different seasons.

32. New Mexico Magazine Pay: 35 to 40 cents/word New Mexico Magazine is a monthly publication and topics include arts, lifestyle, and cultural events within New Mexico. Their readership is around 300k per month.

33. Trailer Life Pay: Up to $600 For recreational vehicle (RV) enthusiasts including fifth wheelers, travel trailers, and motorhomes. Their readers and owners are prospective RV or prospective owners who want to learn about purchasing and maintaining RVs, and the best destinations.

34. AAA Midwest Traveler Pay: $400.00 for 1200 words This magazine is published bimonthly and is sent to 550K+ readers. They publish information about travel safety, AAA membership, and travel.

35. Alaska Beyond Magazine Pay: $150- $700 based on article length Monthly in-flight magazine reaching more than 3.8 million passengers. They are 75 percent freelance written. Writers are sought after for topics related to business and who have a unique perspective on any of their destinations.

36. Ensemble Vacations Pay: Unknown Ensemble Vacations is a travel and lifestyle magazine published four times per year for its member agencies including American Express and Uniglobe Eastern Canada. Content focuses on a specific destination including little-known or undiscovered places.

37. Wanderlust Pay: $220 Appealing to the mature and experienced traveler, Wanderlust looks for authoritative and inspirational ideas. Their audience consists of British, Americans, Canadians, Australians, and more.

38. The Boundary Waters Journal Pay: $200-$500 The magazine features articles about wilderness, conservation, and nature. Publishes entertaining in-depth articles about fishing, wildlife, hiking, and hunting.

39. Fitnessmagazine.com Pay: Unknown Looking for experts on nutritious eating, workout videos, health news, and beauty trends. Their publication reaches over 1 million.

40. Loaded Landscapes Pay: Up to $150 Loaded Landscapes features content related to landscapes, nature, and wildlife. Look for tips, tutorials, and interviews.

41. IncomeDiary Pay: Up to $200 The IncomeDiary publishes content related to internet marketing and making money online. They seek writers for topics about creating engaging content, buying websites, social media, affiliate marketing, and more.

42. Dogs Naturally Pay: $50-$200 All about holistic remedies for dogs with a good opportunity to write to an audience of 2 million visitors per month.

43. Earth Island Journal Pay: 25 cents/word Seeks writers for thought-provoking and unique stories of environmental concerns seen as a threat to the environment. They cover issues such as land conservation, wildlife, and innovations in technology, and science.

44. The Chronicle of the Horse Pay: Up to $400 for 2500 words This is a bi-monthly horse news publication that focuses on sports horse news, dressage, product reviews, and profiles of prominent horse aficionados.

45. LiisBeath Pay: Up to $100- $2000 (500- 2500 words) This is a feminist publication and they look for stories related to profiles of feminist entrepreneurs, “how to” articles, investigative stories, and emerging issues.

46. The Contemporary Sportsman Pay: $450- $700 This is a quarterly magazine that features stories about fly fishing and/or wing shooting experiences. They look for writers that can tell a distinctive story in how they approach the sport.

47. Hoof Beats Magazine Pay:$100-$500 This publication is 70% freelancer written. Content is exclusively about standard and harness racing.

48. High Times Pay: Unknown High Times Magazine is all about cannabis- from cultivation to legalization. They get over 1 million readers per month.

49. Midwest Living Pay: Up to 1.25/word With a focus on the Midwest, their articles are related to food, travel, home, and gardening. They like writers who will craft content in a fun yet sophisticated tone.

50. Edible Seattle Pay: up to 30 cents/word Published bimonthly, each issue pertains to the current season. Edible Seattle is a community-based publication made up of most freelancers. They seek writers who capture the style of the Northwest.

51. Bugle Magazine Pay: 20 cents/word. Articles up to 4500 words They write about habitat conservation, natural history, and wildlife management. Bugle Magazine seeks wildlife professionals or professional writers with knowledge about wildlife.

52. Clean Run Magazine Pay: 75-300 Clean Run magazines feature articles related to the training of dogs for agility, sports competitions, health and safety of agility dogs.

53. The Nation Pay: Unknown They are a left-leaning journal featuring national and international affairs with content covering political, social, environmental, and economic developments. The Nation has about 3 million monthly readers.

54. Teaching Tolerance Pay: $150 for 500 to 700 words They publish stories related to social justice and anti-bias education for an audience of K-12 educators.

55. American Educator Pay: $300 minimum Quarterly magazine for American Federation of Teachers. They seek articles on topics related to education, politics, and professional ethics.

56. Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Pay: $250-$500 The magazine is for the coast of Maine with the main focus on boating life. Their readers are affluent and educated. They love getting out on the water and exploring.

57. International Living Pay: Up to $400.00 They seek articles about funding your life living abroad. If you running a business or earning a living overseas, this could be perfect for you.

58. The Dollar Stretcher Pay: 10 cents/word The Dollar Stretcher is a group of publications about living better for less. They look for content that includes expert advice around the subject.

59. B. Michelle Pippin Pay: $50-$150 Seeking business experts on topics related to hacks – marketing, increasing income, time-saving or profit.

60. Metro Parent Pay: Up to $200 They cover the parenting scene in Southeast Michigan including activities, money, back to school, babies, education, and self-improvement.

61. Motherly Pay: $50 They seek writers for first-person stories about motherhood – wisdom, and knowledge you have gained as a mother. The pay is not great, but this is a good exposure opportunity.

62. AMC Outdoors Pay: Unknown They provide short in-depth articles with news and advice on outdoor recreation and conservation. Topics focus on stories related to outdoor activities and unique approaches to conservation.

63. Food & Nutrition Pay: Unknown Seeking dynamic content about food & diet trends, culture, culinary trends, and social factors that impact American diets.

Get Paid to Write – Consider Making a Writing Course

If you’re struggling to make consistent money as a writer, you might want to take a writing course.

Here are some sources that could help you:

Writing Course Books & Guides

Consider learning from Udemy

You will learn how to find writing clients, get access to the exact pitches used to land clients, and all the tools necessary to be successful as a freelance writer.

Once you have enrolled in the course, you gain access to a private Facebook group with a community of freelance writers you can interact with.

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. It’s able to write essays, code and more given short text prompts, hyper-charging productivity. But it also has a more… nefarious side .

In any case, AI tools are not going away — and indeed has expanded dramatically since its launch just a few months ago. Major brands are experimenting with it, using the AI to generate ad and marketing copy, for example.

And OpenAI is heavily investing in it. ChatGPT was recently super-charged by GPT-4 , the latest language-writing model from OpenAI’s labs. Paying ChatGPT users have access to GPT-4, which can write more naturally and fluently than the model that previously powered ChatGPT. In addition to GPT-4, OpenAI recently connected ChatGPT to the internet with plugins available in alpha to users and developers on the waitlist .

Here’s a timeline of ChatGPT product updates and releases, starting with the latest, to be updated regularly. We also answer the most common FAQs ( see below ).

Timeline of the most recent ChatGPT updates

May 25, 2023, chatgpt app is now available in 11 more countries.

OpenAI announced in a tweet that the ChatGPT mobile app is now available on iOS in the U.S., Europe, South Korea and New Zealand, and soon more will be able to download the app from the app store.

The ChatGPT app for iOS is now available to users in 11 more countries — Albania, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Jamaica, Korea, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, and the UK. More to come soon! — OpenAI (@OpenAI) May 24, 2023

May 18, 2023

Openai launches a chatgpt app for ios.

ChatGPT is officially going mobile. The new ChatGPT app will be free to use, free from ads and will allow for voice input, the company says, but will initially be limited to U.S. users at launch.

When using the mobile version of ChatGPT, the app will sync your history across devices — meaning it will know what you’ve previously searched for via its web interface, and make that accessible to you. The app is also integrated with Whisper , OpenAI’s open source speech recognition system, to allow for voice input.

May 3, 2023

Hackers are using chatgpt lures to spread malware on facebook.

Meta said in a report on May 3 that malware posing as ChatGPT was on the rise across its platforms. The company said that since March 2023, its security teams have uncovered 10 malware families using ChatGPT (and similar themes) to deliver malicious software to users’ devices.

“In one case, we’ve seen threat actors create malicious browser extensions available in official web stores that claim to offer ChatGPT-based tools,” said Meta security engineers Duc H. Nguyen and Ryan Victory in a blog post . “They would then promote these malicious extensions on social media and through sponsored search results to trick people into downloading malware.”

April 28, 2023

Chatgpt parent company openai closes $300m share sale at $27b-29b valuation.

VC firms including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive and K2 Global are picking up new shares, according to documents seen by TechCrunch. A source tells us Founders Fund is also investing. Altogether the VCs have put in just over $300 million at a valuation of $27 billion to $29 billion. This is separate to a big investment from Microsoft announced earlier this year , a person familiar with the development told TechCrunch, which closed in January. The size of Microsoft’s investment is believed to be around $10 billion, a figure we confirmed with our source.

April 25, 2023

Openai previews new subscription tier, chatgpt business.

Called ChatGPT Business, OpenAI describes the forthcoming offering as “for professionals who need more control over their data as well as enterprises seeking to manage their end users.”

“ChatGPT Business will follow our API’s data usage policies, which means that end users’ data won’t be used to train our models by default,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post. “We plan to make ChatGPT Business available in the coming months.”

April 24, 2023

Openai wants to trademark “gpt”.

OpenAI applied for a trademark for “GPT,” which stands for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer,” last December. Last month, the company petitioned the USPTO to speed up the process, citing the “myriad infringements and counterfeit apps” beginning to spring into existence.

Unfortunately for OpenAI, its petition was dismissed last week. According to the agency, OpenAI’s attorneys neglected to pay an associated fee as well as provide “appropriate documentary evidence supporting the justification of special action.”

That means a decision could take up to five more months.

April 22, 2023

Auto-gpt is silicon valley’s latest quest to automate everything .

Auto-GPT is an open source app created by game developer Toran Bruce Richards that uses OpenAI’s latest text-generating models, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, to interact with software and services online, allowing it to “autonomously” perform tasks.

Depending on what objective the tool’s provided, Auto-GPT can behave in very… unexpected ways. One Reddit user claims that, given a budget of $100 to spend within a server instance, Auto-GPT made a wiki page on cats, exploited a flaw in the instance to gain admin-level access and took over the Python environment in which it was running — and then “killed” itself.

April 18, 2023

Ftc warns that ai technology like chatgpt could ‘turbocharge’ fraud .

FTC chair Lina Khan and fellow commissioners warned House representatives of the potential for modern AI technologies, like ChatGPT, to be used to “turbocharge” fraud in a congressional hearing .

“AI presents a whole set of opportunities, but also presents a whole set of risks,” Khan told the House representatives. “And I think we’ve already seen ways in which it could be used to turbocharge fraud and scams. We’ve been putting market participants on notice that instances in which AI tools are effectively being designed to deceive people can place them on the hook for FTC action,” she stated.

April 17, 2023

Superchat’s new ai chatbot lets you message historical and fictional characters via chatgpt.

The company behind the popular iPhone customization app Brass , sticker maker StickerHub and others is out today with a new AI chat app called SuperChat , which allows iOS users to chat with virtual characters powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. However, what makes the app different from the default ChatGPT experience or the dozens of generic AI chat apps now available are the characters offered which you can use to engage with SuperChat’s AI features.

April 12, 2023

Italy gives openai to-do list for lifting chatgpt suspension order.

Italy’s data protection watchdog has laid out what OpenAI needs to do for it to lift an order against ChatGPT issued at the end of last month — when it said it suspected the AI chatbot service was in breach of the EU’s GSPR and ordered the U.S.-based company to stop processing locals’ data.

The DPA has given OpenAI a deadline — of April 30 — to get the regulator’s compliance demands done. (The local radio, TV and internet awareness campaign has a slightly more generous timeline of May 15 to be actioned.)

Researchers discover a way to make ChatGPT consistently toxic

A study co-authored by scientists at the Allen Institute for AI shows that assigning ChatGPT a “persona” — for example, “a bad person,” “a horrible person” or “a nasty person” — through the ChatGPT API increases its toxicity sixfold. Even more concerning, the co-authors found having ChatGPT pose as certain historical figures, gendered people and members of political parties also increased its toxicity — with journalists, men and Republicans in particular causing the machine learning model to say more offensive things than it normally would.

The research was conducted using the latest version of ChatGPT, but not the model currently in preview based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 .

April 4, 2023

Y combinator-backed startups are trying to build ‘chatgpt for x’.

YC Demo Day’s Winter 2023 batch features no fewer than four startups that claim to be building “ChatGPT for X.” They’re all chasing after a customer service software market that’ll be worth $58.1 billion by 2023, assuming the rather optimistic prediction from Acumen Research comes true.

Here are the YC-backed startups that caught our eye:

April 1, 2023

Italy orders chatgpt to be blocked.

OpenAI has started geoblocking access to its generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, in Italy.

Italy’s data protection authority has just put out a timely reminder that some countries do have laws that already apply to cutting edge AI: it has ordered OpenAI to stop processing people’s data locally with immediate effect. The Italian DPA said it’s concerned that the ChatGPT maker is breaching the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and is opening an investigation.

March 29, 2023

1,100+ signatories signed an open letter asking all ‘ai labs to immediately pause for 6 months’.

The letter’s signatories include Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and Tristan Harris of the Center for Humane Technology, among others. The letter calls on “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.”

The letter reads:

Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks,[3] and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization? Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders. Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable.

March 23, 2023

Openai connects chatgpt to the internet.

OpenAI launched plugins for ChatGPT, extending the bots functionality by granting it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web. Available in alpha to ChatGPT users and developers on the waitlist , OpenAI says that it’ll initially prioritize a small number of developers and subscribers to its premium ChatGPT Plus plan before rolling out larger-scale and API access.

At a press event in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft announced its long-rumored integration of OpenAI’s GPT-4 model into Bing, providing a ChatGPT-like experience within the search engine. The announcement spurred a 10x increase in new downloads for Bing globally, indicating a sizable consumer demand for new AI experiences.

Other companies beyond Microsoft joined in on the AI craze by implementing ChatGPT, including OkCupid , Kaito , Snapchat and Discord — putting the pressure on Big Tech’s AI initiatives, like Google .

Writers everywhere rolled their eyes at the new technology, much like artists did with OpenAI’s DALL-E model , but the latest chat-style iteration seemingly broadened its appeal and audience.

What is ChatGPT? How does it work?

ChatGPT is a general-purpose chatbot that uses artificial intelligence to generate text after a user enters a prompt, developed by tech startup OpenAI . The chatbot uses GPT-4, a large language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text.

Most recently, Microsoft announced at it’s 2023 Build conference that it is integrating it ChatGPT-based Bing experience into Windows 11. A Brooklyn-based 3D display startup Looking Glass utilizes ChatGPT to produce holograms you can communicate with by using ChatGPT. And nonprofit organization Solana officially integrated the chatbot into its network with a ChatGPT plug-in geared toward end users to help onboard into the web3 space.

What does GPT mean in ChatGPT?

GPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer.

What’s the difference between ChatGPT and Bard?

Much like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Bard is a chatbot that will answer questions in natural language. Google announced at its 2023 I/O event that it will soon be adding multimodal content to Bard, meaning that it can deliver answers in more than just text, responses can give you rich visuals as well. Rich visuals mean pictures for now, but later can include maps, charts and other items.

ChatGPT’s generative AI has had a longer lifespan and thus has been “learning” for a longer period of time than Bard.

What is the difference between ChatGPT and a chatbot?

A chatbot can be any software/system that holds dialogue with you/a person but doesn’t necessarily have to be AI-powered. For example, there are chatbots that are rules-based in the sense that they’ll give canned responses to questions.

ChatGPT is AI-powered and utilizes LLM technology to generate text after a prompt.

Can ChatGPT write essays?

Can chatgpt commit libel.

Due to the nature of how these models work , they don’t know or care whether something is true, only that it looks true. That’s a problem when you’re using it to do your homework, sure, but when it accuses you of a crime you didn’t commit, that may well at this point be libel.

We will see how handling troubling statements produced by ChatGPT will play out over the next few months as tech and legal experts attempt to tackle the fastest moving target in the industry.

It depends on the nature of the program. While ChatGPT can write workable Python code, it can’t necessarily program an entire app’s worth of code. That’s because ChatGPT lacks context awareness — in other words, the generated code isn’t always appropriate for the specific context in which it’s being used.

OpenAI has said that individuals in “certain jurisdictions” (such as the EU) can object to the processing of their personal information by its AI models by filling out this form . This includes the ability to make requests for deletion of AI-generated references about you. Although OpenAI notes it may not grant every request since it must balance privacy requests against freedom of expression “in accordance with applicable laws”.

The web form for making a deletion of data about you request is entitled “ OpenAI Personal Data Removal Request ”.

In its privacy policy, the ChatGPT maker makes a passing acknowledgement of the objection requirements attached to relying on “legitimate interest” (LI), pointing users towards more information about requesting an opt out — when it writes: “See here for instructions on how you can opt out of our use of your information to train our models.”

What controversies have surrounded ChatGPT?

Recently, Discord announced that it had integrated OpenAI’s technology into its bot named Clyde where two users tricked Clyde into providing them with instructions for making the illegal drug methamphetamine (meth) and the incendiary mixture napalm.

An Australian mayor has publicly announced he may sue OpenAI for defamation due to ChatGPT’s false claims that he had served time in prison for bribery. This would be the first defamation lawsuit against the text-generating service.

CNET found itself in the midst of controversy after Futurism reported the publication was publishing articles under a mysterious byline completely generated by AI. The private equity company that owns CNET, Red Ventures, was accused of using ChatGPT for SEO farming, even if the information was incorrect.

Several major school systems and colleges, including New York City Public Schools , have banned ChatGPT from their networks and devices. They claim that the AI impedes the learning process by promoting plagiarism and misinformation, a claim that not every educator agrees with .

There have also been cases of ChatGPT accusing individuals of false crimes .

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When I started a blog four years ago, I had no idea I could get paid to write about anything. Fast forward three years. Now I get paid to write about things I love, and I make a full-time living doing it.

Freelance writing can be a great way to make money from home. But with any business, there’s a steep learning curve. You have to know what editors want, where to find jobs that are legitimate, and what to charge as you progress.

How to Get Paid to Write (Step by Step)

Before you apply to get paid for writing, there are a few things you should do to make yourself stand out to potential clients.

1. Choose What to Write About

When you’re writing for money, you might think that only writing about a couple of topics limits your options, but it actually expands them. Sites and companies that pay well don’t want freelancers who write about anything, they want experts in their field. When you stick to a single niche and become known for it, you’ll become a sought-after writer.

Choosing one topic also allows you to scale your business faster. You learn your subject thoroughly, research less, work faster, and can take on more clients. All this leads to being able to earn a higher hourly rate for your work. The key is to pick a profitable niche.

2. Create a Portfolio

There are several ways to create a portfolio. The first is with a blog. Every new writer should have a blog, especially if you don’t have many clips to show potential clients.

Once you choose your niche, write five to ten blog posts on various topics within it. This shows potential clients your writing style, expertise, and gives them a place to contact you.

You can also make money with a blog . One way is to find products and services related to your niche that you like using and see if they have an affiliate program. Then every time someone makes a purchase through your affiliate link, you’ll earn a small commission.

3. Create Profiles on Multiple Sites

Once you’ve written a few articles for other sites or publications, you can create profiles and portfolios on multiple professional freelance writing sites. Clippings.me is a portfolio site for journalists, Contently is used by many web-based content writers, and LinkedIn is a go-to place for businesses looking for expert writers.

Having a presence on a few different sites makes it easier for clients to find you and your work. They may also learn personal facts about you that give you an edge over other writers so don’t underestimate including things like your alma mater, pets, and hobbies.

4. Post on Social Media

Building a social media presence around your niche can also put you ahead for freelance writing jobs. Twitter is most popular for journalists and print publications while Instagram is becoming a popular place for e-commerce businesses to find writers.

You don’t have to make another social media account just for your writing. Post facts, breaking news, advice, and stories related to your niche and tag them with relevant hashtags. It’ll help brands find you, and it can further reinforce to potential clients that you’re knowledgeable and stay current about the topics you write about.

5. Accept Smaller Jobs While Building Your Reputation

While you’re building your portfolio and expertise in your niche, you’ll have to be willing to accept lower-paid writing jobs. Think of them as practice that you’re getting paid to do. The more organizations, editors, and platforms you work with now, the more you’ll be able to impress high-paying clients in the future.

You can also pitch websites to guest post. You won’t get paid to write guest posts, but you may be able to add links to your blog posts in your article. This will help your posts rank higher in Google, and potential clients may be able to find you through simple Google searches.

6. Learn to Network

You can start freelance writing on your own, but if you want to build a business and make a living writing, you need a network of other writers. Your network should be filled with writers and editors in your niche who are a little ahead of you and a little behind you in the journey.

Your network can also help you find sources for stories, give you feedback on pitches, advise you on rates to charge, and help you to feel like you’re not alone in this often isolating industry.

Join the Best Freelance Writing Websites

When you’re building your writing portfolio, there are some freelance writing sites that stand out for offering legitimate jobs and paying writers a living wage. They’re the best freelance writing websites for beginners.

Upwork is a freelancer marketplace and go-to source for business owners looking for all kinds of digital services. You can find hundreds of paid writing jobs in dozens of subjects.

One of the benefits of using Upwork is that you won’t have to chase down payment from clients. All invoices and payments happen through Upwork, and you’re guaranteed payment for the work you do.

The downside is that Upwork charges a 20% fee on your first $500 earned with each client, 10% up to $10,000, and 5% beyond that. It’s a good place to get started, but you won’t want to use it for long.

Known for offering services starting at $5, Fiverr is a marketplace for freelancers to showcase their services to prospective clients. You create a profile, list a “gig,” and then it becomes available to a global audience.

All communication and payments are processed through Fiverr, but it also charges a steep 20% fee on all earnings. If you’re nervous about reaching out to clients yourself, Fiverr can be a good platform where they come to you.

But you’ll have to do something to make yourself stand out in a sea of other writers. That’s where specializing in one subject matter can be your strength.

3. Textbroker

Textbroker only offers content and writing services on its platform. Writers who sign up with Textbroker will find many resources on how to improve their writing, including editors to review articles, writing tutorials, and videos on how to get the most out of Textbroker.

Earnings per word depend on your quality level. You can earn from $0.07 per word up to $0.50. You choose from thousands of orders available based on your quality level, and there are no additional fees. Textbroker also offers milestone and quarterly bonuses when you achieve different word counts.

Writers, designers, videographers, and other creatives can all find jobs on Skyword . Skyword is a marketplace where you can find jobs and be found by clients. It works with both small and high-profile clients and is a great way to make the jump from lower-paying job sites.

You can’t just sign up for Skyword clients. Fill out a profile and wait until you’re hand-selected for jobs, meaning your profile can sit in Skyword for a long time before you’re submitted to clients or able to view job opportunities. You can increase your chances of being picked by editors by keeping your social media relevant and updated.

5. ClearVoice

ClearVoice connects qualified writers with job opportunities based on the writer’s CV or ClearVoice portfolio. Once you complete your CV, you’ll be able to join ClearVoice’s Talent Network and have your CV sent to prospective clients.

Writers are then handpicked for opportunities based on their CV, so there’s an incentive to create one that stands out. You set your own rates and are paid via PayPal upon assignment approval, so you get the security of going through a marketplace without the fees typically associated with them.

6. Contently

Contently is an online writing agency that connects freelance writers with businesses. Many writers use the site for its free portfolio service, but Contently editors use these portfolios to handpick freelancers for clients.

Many high-profile websites and companies use Contently to source writers, so the jobs pay well. These jobs tend to go to the most experienced candidates, and it can take years for an editor at Contently to refer you to a client. But if you’re patient, Contently can offer lucrative writing opportunities.

Another place experienced freelance writers can find high-paying jobs is on nDash . nDash is a content platform where writers can create a profile and pitch ideas for blogs, articles, and whitepapers to prospective clients.

nDash claims the average writing assignment on its platform pays between $175 to $450. Once an assignment is approved, payment is deposited directly into the writer’s bank account within two to three business days.

It’s a relatively new site so not as many companies are using it, but writers have reported that if you’re willing to pitch more, you’ll make a decent income.

8. SmartBug

SmartBug is a content marketing company specializing in B2B (business to business) marketing and copywriting. Its writers produce content for the web, social media, email, sales pages, and more.

This is a great site for writers who aren’t beginners but may not have the experience or portfolio to compete for jobs with other top writers. There’s no direct way to apply, but you can fill out a general interest application on the website.

9. NewsCred

NewsCred is a community for experienced freelance content creators. In-house editors pair creators with customer programs, but you can also view freelance positions on the platform. Then NewsCred’s editorial team serves as your managing editor for all client work.

You can find high-profile Fortune 500 companies from a variety of industries using NewsCred, the most popular being tech, healthcare, and financial services. There’s currently no button to apply on NewsCred’s website, but you can contact the company via the contact form on its website.

10. The Writer Finder

Growth Machine is an SEO-focused content marketing company with a freelance writing platform called The Writer Finder . Growth Machine works with a variety of clients in AI, travel, wellness, dogs, weddings, and more.

What sets The Writer Finder apart is the Slack group for freelance writers. It lets you communicate with other freelance writers on the team. Rates are competitive, and you’ll also have the chance to learn sought-after SEO skills.

Apply for Assignments on the Best Freelance Writing Job Boards

Job boards are easy places for companies to post their jobs. The job board doesn’t vet freelancers, handle payments, or make promises on behalf of clients.

There are some things to be aware of when applying and taking a job from a job board. Because the service is free for writers, you’re competing against thousands of other bloggers for a limited number of jobs.

Job boards are also notorious for phishing scams. “Clients” may ask you to download a zip file of their payment terms or writing guidelines and ask you to invoice them via PayPal. The zip file is actually a keystroke logger allowing them to steal your PayPal credentials. Be careful when applying to jobs on these boards.

11. ProBlogger

The ProBlogger job board is updated daily with blogging and article writing jobs across all subjects.

Businesses have to pay ProBlogger to post their job ad, meaning the writer isn’t paid through ProBlogger. They don’t charge the writer any fees for joining or getting paid.

Another job board filled with many freelance writing opportunities is Indeed . You can find full-time, part-time, and freelance remote writing jobs across all subjects, and because of the vastness of the board, competition isn’t as high compared to others.

You can sign up for job alerts based on your searches. Simply enter your email address and activate emails to see them as soon as they hit the website.

13. MediaBistro

Journalists and anyone else in media will find MediaBistro helpful for finding jobs in the industry. If you’re looking for paid writing jobs in marketing, advertising, television, or news, you can find hundreds of jobs from recognizable names on MediaBistro’s job board.

There are entry-level positions listed, but your best move is to get enough writing experience to make a professional-looking resume before you start applying for jobs on this site.

Resources on How to Get Paid as A Writer

When you’re running your freelance writing business, you’ll want to have some resources to make it easier to write and get paid.

Freelance Writer’s Den

Started by veteran freelance writer Carol Tice, the Freelance Writer’s Den is a membership site just for freelance writers. You have access to over 300 hours of freelance writing education including eCourses, webinars, and podcasts.

There’s also a forum for networking with other writers and a job board with new writing jobs posted every Monday and Thursday, all with a minimum rate of $50 per article.

Membership for the Freelance Writer’s Den only opens twice a year. If you’re interested in joining, sign up for the waitlist to be notified.

Get Paid to Write for Blogs (Course)

This is a course geared towards new freelance writers that was created by Cat Alford (who, coincidentally, has been a freelance writer on DollarSprout in the past).

The course features eight video modules covering beginner-level lessons, including how to create a portfolio that will attract high-value clients. The course also covers everything you need to know about running the business side of things.

Getting Paid to Write is Possible

You can get paid to write in any field at any level. Like any business, it’s difficult to get started. However, if you work your way through the many content marketing agencies and job boards, you’ll be able to find steady work and grow your business.

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Get Paid to Write Articles: The Freelancer’s Ultimate Guide

Table of contents: How to Get Paid A Lot to Write an Article

1. find good markets, a note about essays, what can i write about, 2. study your targets, verify freelance opportunities, identify best-fit departments, check out the pub’s media guide, 3. generate ideas, 4. find your hook, tips for identifying a news hook, a note about magazine timelines, 5. research the facts, use primary sources, 6. do quick pre-interviews, a note about email ‘interviews’, 7. create a headline, 8. write a query, publication query template, 9. write more queries, 10. get an assignment and contract, 11. finish your interviews, think like an editor, a note about recording, 12. organize your notes, 13. write your article, the ‘nut graf’, the conclusion, 14. boil it down (editing), the road to article greatness, final read-thru tips, 15. one last fact-check…, 16. file your article, 17. respond to editor feedback, 18. finalize and invoice, how to write an article — your way, previous post, related posts, 3 paid advertising options to monetize your website, how to become a content writer: 5 skills to help you achieve your writing dreams, a brand new opportunity for writers has finally arrived.

Tired of article writing jobs that pay a big $50? There’s a ton of ‘online content’ work out there that doesn’t pay much. Maybe it’s time to move up and learn how to write an article and, more importantly, how to get paid to write articles.

And when I say that, I don’t mean a $75 article — I mean the type of article that pays real money. $1-a-word-and-up land.

If that interests you, you’re in the right place to learn how to get paid to write articles at top rates.

After offering article-writing tips for over a decade, I decided it would be useful to organize all the information into one, big ultimate guide that shows you exactly how to get paid to write articles at rates you deserve.

Many freelance writers do article-prep steps out of order or skip some steps entirely, with poor results. Following this step-by-step guide will make it easier for you to move up, write in-depth, reported articles faster, and sell to better-paying article markets.

Ready to learn how to write an article that pays? Then let’s go!

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Do you do this? You get an idea for an article, and you just write it up. Then, you start looking around for a magazine or website that might publish it and pay you a chunk.

But you discover no such market can be found. Even if it could, many publications pay less for pre-written material. Their editors want to weigh in before you write!

Instead, start your article-writing journey by building a list of well-paid publications or websites where you’d like to see your byline. Stop bothering with local pubs that pay $75 for a feature story!

Here are some places to find markets where you can get paid to write articles at a much higher rate:

If you are thinking about writing personal-essay articles, bad news: Good pay is very rare (this list of paying essay markets gives you a taste of the low rates).

For purposes of this ultimate guide, when I say ‘write an article,’ what I mean is a nonfiction, reported article. Not a personal essay or opinion piece.

Good-paying essay markets are few and highly competitive. The odds you could earn regularly this way are low.

The good money is in reported nonfiction articles, and that’s what this guide is about.

One more quick note about ‘qualifications’ or certifications you might think you need, to write on a topic. None are required .

If you have an interest and willingness to learn about a topic, you can interview experts and learn the industry. I’m a college dropout and have written for top-drawer magazines and websites in real estate, legal, insurance, finance, and other niches. Learned it all on the job, and you can, too.

Once you’ve located some publications or sites that offer serious money for topics you can write about, you’re ready for the next step.

Maybe you’ve read your target magazines before, maybe not. Now, read them as a writer trying to crack that market, and ask yourself:

Most importantly, match bylines to the masthead to discover which parts of the publication appear to use freelance writers. No point pitching to a column that’s authored by the same staffer every edition.

Most publications have departments — short, up-front columns, often with topics they do each issue, followed by space for longer feature pieces. These short ‘front of book’ pieces are often a great place for freelance writers to break in at better magazines.

Also, look online for their advertiser’s guide or media guide. It will have info on the reader demographics and give you insight into who the readers are and what topics are of top interest.

Once you have a strong sense of who reads that outlet and what they publish articles on, you’re ready to develop your idea.

Note: That idea should not be to write another article on a topic the publication covered recently. Likely, they’re done with that now. You’ll need something new.

If you want to get paid to write articles and make a consistent living at it, you’re going to need a lot of sharp article ideas. I know many freelance writers who’re in denial about this, and they sit around hoping some wonderful editor will assign them topics monthly.

Changes in publishing mean fewer editors on staff, less of an editorial brain-trust in-house, and more assignments going to freelance writers to bring their own ideas.

A really strong article idea is your golden ticket in the door of better-paid article markets.

Commit to becoming an idea machine. Consider it a hobby. See how many pieces of information you can collect that could be spun into story ideas.

Here are some ways to troll for ideas:

Once you’ve gathered some seeds of ideas, you need to figure out how to take these news nuggets and spin them into article ideas you can pitch. Here’s how:

Ask questions to develop story ideas

Think a much-covered story can’t be pitched again? You’re so wrong. You can always find another angle, as I demonstrate here .

As you use your news-gathering research to start developing fresh angles to pitch, you’ll need to take one final step to make sure your idea is salable.

Story ideas that are likely to get an assignment all have one thing in common: A news hook.

What’s that? A news hook is something that gives your idea urgency, and makes it need to be published soon . It signals you have fresh information that we haven’t already seen 100 times online.

Always more fresh angles that could get an editor excited to assign you an article and get you paid.

Remember that many national magazines work 4-6 months ahead of time, when you’re looking for those news hooks. Yes, that makes it hard to be newsy! Pitching a story with a news hook that will be long over before the issue comes out is a common reason pitches fail.

Think months into the future before pitching. Think about how you can examine future possible next steps or outcomes, spot up-and-coming trends, or provide more in-depth analysis to get in with the big magazines. You can also look at anniversaries for something that would be timely around the time that issue hits the newsstand.

Now that you’ve got an idea, it’s time to road-test it and see if it’s real. One way freelance writers can make sure an idea is going to hold water is to conduct research to confirm accuracy with reliable sources.

In a word: Don’t trust Wikipedia. Remember, anyone can write anything on there.

Wikipedia is a secondary source or worse. And you want to avoid those as much as possible. Use primary sources instead. Primary sources provide credibility and authority that help demonstrate your ability to report and write a story.

So how do you find primary sources? Here are some examples:

Note: Remember not to over-research — think about how many factoids and bits of background info will fit in your story, and stop when you get enough.

Once you have your facts straight, it’s time to talk to some experts and/or ordinary people who’re experiencing the issue, trend, or problem you’ll write about.

This is the part where for many newbie freelance writers, the whole thing screeches to a halt.

Yes. Most well-paid article assignments involve speaking to live humans (on the phone, or maybe on Skype, or in person). That’s one of the reasons they pay well — they require some legwork.

Breathe. You can do this. You talk to people every day, right?

Now that you have a premise for a story, this is the point where you can get interview practice by conducting quick pre-interviews of an expert or two on your topic.

Note: You might think that no one will talk to you for an article you don’t have assigned yet, but you’d be surprised. Not everyone will agree, but many will be game.

The bigger the market you’re pitching, the easier it’ll be. Ten minutes isn’t a lot of time for an expert to risk for possibly ending up with a national-magazine mention.

In the world of blogging, collecting info via a quick email has become routine. But when it comes to well-paid article writing, not so much. Most legit magazines will expect you to actually speak to people, and may even require that you note it in the article if you only emailed, as in:

“This sucks,” said Joe Shmoe, in an email response.

Yes, that is awkward. So avoid it by screwing up your courage and doing actual interviews. It’s just asking people questions. No lives at risk. Practice with a friend, if you need to!

A great headline can be the difference between getting paid to write an article and getting rejected.

To test out whether your idea has now gelled and is ready to be pitched to picky well-paying magazine editors, try to create a headline for it. Use the headline style of your target publication.

If you struggle with this, your idea may not be fully baked yet.

Don’t be discouraged if it takes a bit of time to craft a strong headline, though — here’s a look at my headline-writing process .

You’ll need your headline to succeed with the next step in your article-writing journey.

You might think that about now, I’d be telling you, “It’s time to write your article.”

Article writing in a vacuum, without an editor’s input, is a recipe for rejection (or at best, a low fee). A lot of newbie freelance writers make this mistake. But most well-paid publications aren’t excited about pre-written content.

Their editor wants to help shape the story, and be confident it’s what they want. (Also, they want to make sure it’s not duplicate content you’ve sent 10 other places.)

And that, writer friends, is why we write query letters.

Your query needs to do two things:

There are many ways to go about this, but here’s a basic template that works reliably:

Hi [editor’s name] –

Big tip: Write your whole query in the style of your target publication! Here’s how:

A bigger tip: Don’t talk a lot about yourself. Let your idea make the sale. Pro freelance writers take 1-2 lines at the end of their query to talk about what they know that makes them the writer for the story.

As far as what to put in your email subject line (and yes, mostly these days you’ll be emailing editors), we have a few articles on that topic.

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This is an important step. After you send off that query, don’t sit by the computer refreshing your email every 5 minutes. Write more queries and pitch letters ! That’s what successful freelancers who get paid to write articles do.

This is simply a numbers game. The more ideas you come up with, research, craft into queries and send, the more likely you will get assignments.

Assume nothing’s going to happen with Query One, and move straight to developing more ideas and writing more queries.

OK, this one is out of your control. But if you follow all the steps before this one, at some point, you’ll likely connect with an editor who wants you to write an article.

Once you have an assignment — and sign a contract that clarifies your topic, payment, payment terms, rights, deadline, and wordcount — you’re ready to write and get paid for your article.

Quick contract tips for publications:

A word about fees: Increasingly, editors seem to ask freelance writers what they charge for an article, instead of stating their fee. Resist this trend, and ask what they typically pay. Most pubs have a usual rate…but many are exploring whether they can get it cheaper. If they won’t say, try asking around your writer network to see what you can find out.

Scored an assignment? It’s time to go back to your sources and get the rest of your interviews done. There may be new people you haven’t spoken to yet, and others who you pre-interviewed and may just have a few additional questions left.

The key thing here is to make sure you get all points of view on your topic. Not just the one you agree with. Your editor expects freelance writers to provide balanced reporting and will want to know what all the different stakeholders think.

Since this post is called ‘How to Write an Article’ and not ‘How to Conduct Great Interviews,’ I’ll leave it there. Got more tips for you on how to get awesome interview quotes .

Lots of freelance writers ask me about recording interviews. I learned to type and take notes fast, and don’t record anymore. It just creates more work for you!

By this point you’ve probably got a stack of interviews, research links, notes, and ideas. You’re starting to worry you have more than you can possibly fit in the article.

And…that means you’re done. When you hear that third expert saying much the same thing as the first one, you’ve probably got what you need.

Now, it’s time to organize this mess so that it’s easy to write your story.

Here’s my normal process:

From there, it usually starts to organize itself and flow along.

Note: If you don’t organize your notes, writing your article takes practically forever, what with all the leafing through the pile to find that one quote you wanted. You might think skipping organization is a time-saver, but trust me, it’s not.

Are you excited? It’s finally time to write your article!

A typical magazine article has four basic parts to it, which I’ll go over below.

The secret to writing a first draft…fast. I want to give you a big article-writing tip for creating a strong first draft: Try putting aside all your notes and quotes, and just writing the story.

Just tell the best story you can. Staying in the storytelling flow is the most efficient way to create a strong reported article.

This ‘spit draft’ will often be a lot better than what you’ll come up with if you cobble the draft together slowly, shuffling through your notes, stopping and looking up names, and rechecking exact quotes as you go.

I’ve often spent a grinding, 8-hour day making all that happen. Instead, see if you could create a first draft in short order. Then, refer to your notes and outline to fill in details and make sure there isn’t an important point you forgot to include.

Now that you have that big-picture, ‘how to write an article’ process tip, it’s important to understand article structure, so your draft has all the key pieces needed to impress your editor.

Let’s break down the four main parts of a typical magazine article, and how to write them.

This is journo-speak for the lead sentence or three, or the beginning of your article. Simply put, the lede needs to be fascinating. Its job is to compel readers to continue reading the rest of the story.

Don’t write a ‘wind-up’ or ‘ throat-clearing lede ,’ where you take five paragraphs to get to the point (unless this is a very long article, and the publication’s style allows for this). Readers generally don’t have the patience for that anymore.

Instead, cut to the chase with something that makes us just have to keep reading. For instance, I once began a reported story with, “Briefly, it was Bambi in bondage.” You want to know what that’s about, no?

Here’s one I read this month, from a long feature about through-hiking in Florida, in Outside magazine :

Everyone told Tom Kennedy to expect flooded trails when he hiked through Big Cypress National Preserve in the spring of 2015. But as he sloshed through miles of waist-deep swamp water that hid alligators and aggressive snakes, the trail quickly got the better of him.

After that opener, most folks are reading on to paragraph two, I’d wager.

It’s a hallmark of amateur freelance writers that their ledes are boring. You want people to read your whole article, after all the hard work you put in, right? Make that lede shine, and they will.

Remember, this lede serves double-duty, as you may also use it in your proposed query letter to try to get hired. Spend some time on it — I’d say I rewrite mine dozens of times, typically, before I’m satisfied.

A paragraph or three on from the lede, after you’ve finished that opening anecdote, interesting fact, or brief expert quote, it’s time to orient readers. They won’t read through a long piece without having a sense of what they’re going to find out if they do.

The nut graf (or nut paragraph) is the orientation guide.

Here’s one my friend and Freelance Writers Den bootcamp contributor Linda Formichelli wrote for trade magazine Club Industry :

If you believe the news, we’re a country full of half-awake zombies who need to chug caffeine just to make it through the day. While the reality isn’t quite that bad, many Americans are sleep deprived, and it’s harming their health. We spoke with health clubs and sleep medicine experts about why health clubs should help their members get the Z’s they need-and how to do it.

Note: A strong nut graf sends your reader on to complete the story with the confidence that they understand the direction this article will take — but not with enough info that they feel fully informed and stop reading.

After the nut graf, it’s time to lay out the rest of your article. The body of your story should be well-organized, with each paragraph and topic logically flowing on to the next.

Profile that rock star. Spotlight the experts who want us to drink kombucha. Tell your story.

These days, this will often involve subheads, bullets, or a list of points to help readers navigate through the rest of your information.

A few tips for the body:

Tip for longer articles: Outline the sections you’ll need, and give each a proposed wordcount. This will help you write to length and avoid having to do a ton of cutting later.

Every article must end — and it should end in a snappy way. This is the final thought you are giving the reader, so make it count.

Writing a strong conclusion also helps prevent editor chopping from the bottom (a habit many editors have). If you have a strong final point, the editor’s more likely to come to you and ask you where to shrink the piece down, giving you more control over your article’s final form.

I love ending articles with one last, insightful quote. Other ways to wrap a story include talking about what may happen next with this news or trend, or simply doing a quick recap of what we’ve learned.

Congratulations — you have a first draft! Now, it’s time for burnishing it to greatness in the editing process.

Remember, your editor didn’t want the first 750 words that come into your head. They want the 750 most concise, sharp, accurate, style-appropriate words they can get on their assigned topic.

And no, they don’t secretly want 1,500 words from you. Turn in a piece way over assigned length, and you risk having a cranky editor.

It begins by going through your draft for anything that should be cut or boiled down. Start big and go small.

Once you’ve shrunk out the fat, you can go back to your notes for points you hated to leave out, and add more meat.

Finally, give it another read-through to make sure it still all flowing smoothly and making sense. During that re-read, also think about the publication’s tone and whether your word choices and sentence lengths are all conforming well. Adjust as needed.

Here’s an often-overlooked step that will save you a lot of heartache. Once you’ve edited your draft and it’s ready to turn in, go back through one last time and re-check all your statistics, quotes, and facts.

You’ll often discover you’ve got a figure or name-spelling wrong. Or you linked to the wrong site, or have attributed a quote to the wrong person.

The fewer errors in your story, the less likely it is your editor gets suspicious that you’re sloppy. And then decides to go over your draft with a magnifying glass to look for issues…and you get back a sea of red ink.

This might seem like an obvious step, but at this point in the process, many freelance writers balk. You want to edit it some more! You want to wait a few more days!

Don’t. You can’t get paid to write articles by overthinking. You’ve written your draft, edited, fact-checked. Maybe let it sit overnight for one final read, but that’s it.

Time to press ‘send’ and fire off that draft to your editor.

Next comes a critical phase that may decide whether you can cut it in the world of well-paid articles: Your editor will want changes.

Unless the requested changes insert errors, misconstrue what one of your sources said, or fundamentally change the drift of your story… your job is to cheerfully make those changes.

Remember, they know their style and their readers better than you do. Usually, editor suggestions will make your piece better, so try to stay open-minded.

Hopefully, you’re able to conclude edits fairly painlessly, and your editor lets you know your article is now finalized. If you haven’t invoiced when you sent your first draft in (my personal habit), send your invoice now (check out our detailed guide to freelancer invoicing for lots of tips).

For extra credit… send in another article query along with that bill. Keep the momentum going and land another assignment, while the editor is feeling happy about the piece you just did.

There you have it — your complete guide for how to write an article for great-paying publications. I hope this helps you move up to better article-writing jobs.

Don’t like some of my tips on how to write an article that pays? That’s cool. Experiment and create your own process!

I boiled this down from 12 years writing 3-4 articles a week plus 15+ years of freelance work…but if something else works better for you and gets you the lucrative article assignments, then it’s all good.

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How to Get Paid to Write Articles: Step-by-Step

Are you wondering how to get paid to write articles? Check out this comprehensive guide!

This article explains how to get paid to write articles and offers some resources that’ll kickstart your freelance writing career.

While most writers will not get rich writing articles, freelancing is a great way to make a little extra income. Some writers can carve out a niche and make a full-time income with freelance writing, but you have to know where to start.

Whether you view yourself as a blogger, tutorial writer, or full-time article writer, there are many ways to make money writing. Discovering how to get paid to write articles is a good way to launch a successful writing career. By following these steps, you can begin looking for writing jobs and enjoy a lucrative side job or full-time career as a writer.

How to Get Paid to Write Articles: Steps to Take

1. set up a paypal account, 2. create a writing website, 3. submit guest posts for popular blogs, 4. send articles to print magazines, 5. follow freelance websites that pay writers, 6. build a linkedin writer profile, 7. join freelance writing jobs sites, 8. pitch ideas to publications, 10. start writing for content mills, 11. get used to rejection, 12. keep an income diary, 13. monetize your blog , a final word on how to get paid to write articles, faqs on how to get paid to write articles.

Writing articles is a fun side gig as you can try lots of different niches and topics while also building a portfolio of clients. New article writers can expect to get paid three to four cents per word. More experienced article writers can get paid eight cents or more per word. If you are interested in becoming a freelance article writer , these specific steps will help you get paid to write faster.

Many of the sites that pay writers for their work use PayPal as their payment method. If you don’t have a PayPal account, this is your first step.

Keep in mind that PayPal will view you as a business when you start earning money for your article submissions. Consider setting up a business account from the beginning to avoid the need to upgrade down the road. Business accounts are free, but you will pay some fees when you get paid.

You need a place to display your writing. Learn how to use WordPress, and set up your own writing website. Showcase some high-quality works that you’ve written on the site.

When you apply for writing gigs, you can send companies to your writing website to showcase what you can do. You can also link to other bylined articles you write for clients once your site is set up.

As a freelance article writer, you need to build a writing portfolio. Beginners can find this to be the most challenging part of the process. If you have good writing skills, start by submitting guest posts to popular blogs.

Guest blogging usually does not earn income, but it can help you get some bylined pieces out there that you can use to build your writing portfolio. Focus on blogs in the niche you find most interesting to write about, and submit helpful articles that people will enjoy reading. That way, you can point to these guest blog posts when pitching clients later on. Sometimes, you can even land clients directly if you’re writing for a popular site.

Learn more about what is guest blogging?

Print magazines are still a solid option for publishing your written work. Each one has specific submission guidelines, but if you can submit feature articles that fit those guidelines, they may take them for publication.

Getting an article published in print usually brings high income. This process is challenging because you have to submit and face the real issue of rejection, but once you get a submission accepted, you’ll enjoy the extra money.

One place you can start looking for published articles in a print magazine is Reader’s Digest. They pay $100 per story or joke of 100 words or less, which is a lucrative pay rate.

New writers often wonder where they can write for pay. Creating a list of websites where you can publish your work will help. This list is not exhaustive but will get you started:

These are only a few examples of publications that pay freelancers. Check out our guide to writing jobs .

Many businesses look for freelance writers through LinkedIn. After you create your writer’s website, create a LinkedIn profile. Consider publishing posts in your chosen niche through LinkedIn to gain readership.

Keep tabs on your LinkedIn account, and respond to people who reach out. You may land a few gigs when you do.

Other freelance writers have success blogging on and writing for popular Medium publications. You can save some time by posting the same piece of content on both social media networks, thus boosting your potential reach.

Sometimes, the best freelance ghostwriting gigs are those that come from private clients. They cover topics like setting freelance writing rates and pitching clients. Some of the most popular sites include:

If you have a particular niche you enjoy writing about, you can make money online by pitching ideas to websites and publications in that niche. To get an idea about what they might take as far as articles, follow them on social media.

If you have a topic idea that fits their readers, reach out to the site to see if they are taking submissions. You just might find that a few that offer pay to content writers who create appropriate pieces for their readers.

If you want to gain exposure and experience as an article writer, apply for a content mill. These sites don’t pay that well (3 cents to 5 cents per word) but they’ll help you understand what clients expect from article writers. Plus, you can build up a portfolio of work, try different niches and use all of this valuable experience to pitch more profitable clients later.

Read our guide to writing for content mills .

Part of learning to make money writing is the sting of rejection. You may submit pitches and articles to many websites before someone takes one and pays you for it. Learn to accept rejection, as it is part of the process.

If someone rejects a piece and gives feedback, learn from that feedback. Use it to make your next article more effective and publication-ready.

Track your income and where it came from. As your freelance writing business grows, you’ll discover which sites are the most effective, and which ones are best left alone.

Start focusing your efforts on the sites and platforms that are the most lucrative. Drop those that do not pay well, and you will start building a better income level.

While freelancing, blog and publish articles related to your niche on your website. Then, monetize it by adding advertisements or affiliate links. This strategy gives you a side hustle that earns money residually on your writing.

As you build your blog, focus on SEO to reach more readers through the search engines. The more traffic your blog has, the more income you will get from those posts.

Learn more about the best affiliate programs for freelancers.

This guide explores different venues you can use to get paid to write articles. Before you start your article writing business, make sure you have solid writing skills. Then, build a small portfolio of writing samples you can show people that showcase your skills.

Remember, a writing business starts slowly, but if you are a true entrepreneur, you can build a successful one. Take some time to explore your desired writing niche, but don’t be afraid to jump out there and get started.

Writing has the potential to be a highly lucrative opportunity if you put in the effort to grow your freelance writing business. Take the time now, and soon you will enjoy the rewards of a successful writing gig on the side.

Article writing is a good career if you enjoy the written word. Although you may not see job ads with the title “article writer”, you can easily break into this area by applying for “content writer” jobs. Typically, these jobs involve writing blog posts and articles several hundred or several thousand words in length. Rates start at three to four cents per word.

What is feature article writing?

Feature article writing describes picking a topic or a story and writing at length about it. A profile of a celebrity, a sports figure or a political are examples of features. Similarly, a feature article may be about a newsworthy location or an event. Usually, feature articles have more colour and personality than news articles. They are also more opinion-focused.

What is magazine article writing?

Magazine article writing is similar to feature article writing with the caveat that the article in question is meant for print. It may involve interviews, a profile or an insight into an interesting or newsworthy event. Magazine writers usually get paid by the word.

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Nicole Harms has been writing professionally since 2006. She specializes in education content and real estate writing but enjoys a wide gamut of topics. Her goal is to connect with the reader in an engaging, but informative way. Her work has been featured on USA Today, and she ghostwrites for many high-profile companies. As a former teacher, she is passionate about both research and grammar, giving her clients the quality they demand in today's online marketing world.

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Can I make money from copywriting? A look at the possibilities

According to PayScale, the average base salary for a copywriter in the US is $54,797.

(To put that into perspective, the average base salary for a teacher in the US is $50,343, according to PayScale).

According to Glassdoor, a copywriter earns an estimated average annual salary of $90,657 in the United States.

This number includes those working in both in-house positions and for agencies.

It also includes additional pay, which could be in the form of bonuses or commissions.

Of course, there are many factors that affect an individual copywriter’s earnings.

However, your income can change drastically if you work as a freelance copywriter.

The sky’s the limit when you start earning as a freelance copywriter.

You can make up to six figures annually, and some copywriters even pull down seven-figure incomes.

There are plenty of examples out there of successful copywriters making great money.

So, yes, making good… heck, great money as a copywriter is absolutely possible.

Should I work as a freelance copywriter or an in-house copywriter?

If you’re a new copywriter,

…and you need a steady income

…w ith benefits

….b ut you have little business experience,

I recommend getting an in-house copywriting job with a great company. Or getting an agency copywriter job.

You’ll dive into a copywriting career, earn a steady paycheck, have benefits, learn copywriting skills and get tons of practice.

(At least, that’s the type of position you should look for).

The company or agency may even pay for you to take copywriting training.

Many companies are willing to invest in copywriting courses to help their beginner copywriters become skilled copywriters.

“But can’t I just start a freelance copywriting business?”

But understand the challenge:

You’ll have to split your time between learning and practicing your writing skills, getting consistent copywriting clients, and executing your client copywriting projects.

That’s a lot for beginner copywriters to manage.

People often forget about all the of the other tasks required to run an entire freelance copywriting business.

Here are just a few of the other tasks required:

You can do it, of course.

But if I had to do it all over again, I’d advise my fresh copywriter-self to get an in-house job.

How do I make money copywriting?

Whether you’re going to get a job as a copywriter or jump into freelance copywriting, you should focus on the essentials:

1. Build your copywriting skills

Start learning about persuasion and effective copywriting now.

Even as you look for a copywriting job or try to land your first freelance copywriting gig, you need to learn how to write persuasive copy that gets people to say “Yes” to an offer.

There are tons of ways to build your copywriting skills. Here are just a few:

Learning (and practicing) on a daily basis will get you on the path to becoming a successful, experienced copywriter.

While you’re practicing your copywriting skills, you’ll also build your copywriting portfolio.

Your portfolio is where you showcase examples of your best work.

It shows potential employers or potential clients your writing expertise and how well you can execute on a project.

A portfolio should include your writing samples, links to your website or a guest post you wrote, social media profiles, etc.

Consider using a tool like Packs to organize and annotate the examples in your portfolio.

A compelling writing portfolio can be a great way to differentiate yourself.

2. Find a copywriting community and network

Copywriting can be a lonely profession if you let it.

Sometimes it can feel like your only colleague is your computer. Or your cat.

That’s why finding a copywriting group is important (either face-to-face or online).

Plus, experienced copywriters can be great resources for beginner copywriters.

Consider joining our free Facebook group here .

3. Get a paid writing job or your first business client

If you’re choosing to get a copywriting job, definitely check out copywriter positions listed on LinkedIn , Indeed , and Google .

If you’re ready to start building your freelance copywriting business, check out this article .

And check out this Copyhacks video where Nelliane St. Clair, the “Minimalist Marketer,” shows you how one blog post can get you clients – and a lot of them.

(Nellieane dove into copywriting with no clients, no testimonials and no case studies).

Take the first step toward making money from copywriting…

You’ll never know what’s possible in the copywriting field if you don’t take action.

You don’t have to take a huge step. Just a first step.

And signing up for our free Conversion Copywriting 101 course is the perfect first step for beginners.

It’ll teach you the basics of copywriting (and some copywriting secrets).

Take the first step toward your copywriting income now.

Write and Get Paid

Do you want to earn money online? Our website was built on the efforts of readers just like you. Readers who didn’t have any experience as writers but decided to put a list together and send it in.

So here is the deal: We will pay you for your efforts. You don’t need to be an expert—you just need to have English equal to that of a native speaker, a sense of humor, and a love for things unusual or interesting.

You do not need to have any relevant experience or hold any particular qualifications, but you do need to:

To help you out with some ideas, the lists that our readers love the most (and the ones we will most likely pay for) are lists that are offbeat and novel—lists that are looking at something normal in an unexpected way (ways college makes you dumb, for example), unsolved mysteries, hidden knowledge (things most people don’t know), misconceptions, and just really astonishing general knowledge about anything—science, for example. After approving your article, it will be great to share it on Facebook/Twitter.

You will earn revenue for every article that is published.

Out of so many freelance marketplaces, choosing a reliable option matching your expectations can be daunting. This guide will help you choose the best websites that are highly trustworthy and help freelancers by letting them find work easily and getting the work done in a lesser amount of time.

The top-rated websites that we have mentioned in this article will allow the creators to grow and expand at their own pace. They pay freelancers promptly and let them decide what type of work they want to do and the number of clients they can take on.

Best 20 Websites for Freelancers or Creators

We looked into 20 websites that provide fantastic prospects for bloggers and content writers alike. The only thing freelancers must consider while working for these websites is to be patient. Getting their submission approved may require some time.

Want to earn 7000₹ daily copy-paste work with proof of your creative work? Let’s dig into the description and features of all these free earning websites that hire creators and pay them a justified price for their hard work

Fiverr is a platform that boasts of selling a freelance gig every 4 seconds. The platform offers services for Graphics and design, digital marketing, writing and translation, video and animation, music and audio, programming and tech, business and lifestyle and data.

After signing up for Fiverr, the freelancer need to make a gig. Creating a gig is free. Doing this will help the global audience know what services they sell and the price for selling their services.

The individuals or companies searching for creators on Fiverr will send them an offer, which they will get a notification.

Fiverr provides a system for freelancers and customers to discuss the details of their projects. The payment method on the website is easy to understand and is available for withdrawal as soon as the payment clears.

With gig packages, freelancers can earn from $5 to $995. It offers three versions of service at different prices.

2. Longreads

Longreads.com - Best Website to get paid for article

Writers can also check out the Longreads website if they want to get paid for selling their writing services, which pays $350 for completing 1 project and writing per reading list.

The freelancers can submit essays, feature pitches, and reading list ideas to the website. For the reading lists, the writers must write an essay-based introduction and a collection of links to long-form stories according to the theme and curate a List Of Articles.

Essays and columns can be about 2000-6000 words, and the website pays $500 per essay. However, the essays must be researched, critical and authentic, and the earnings vary depending on the quality of reporting and research.

3. Freelancer

The Freelancer website has over 61,927,089 employers and freelancers who are finding projects and submitting their tasks diligently.

At the Freelancer website, writers can find projects on diverse topics posted directly by clients, companies or individuals. The platforms pay the creators for the number of hours they work rather than per word basis.

The unique part of the website is that the writers have to bid on the projects to get the work assigned to them.

As bidding works, the lowest bidder wins, and then the customers can browse the freelancers’ profiles, chat with them, compare the proposals and select the one matching their expectations. This system allows writers to explore various themes and learn how to efficiently negotiate and showcase their skills.

The interface of the website and app is relatively easy to use. The writers have to create an account and then fill in the details regarding their writing niche expertise and experience. The writers can start bidding for projects by searching for clients.

The website gives few free bids initially, after which the writers have to pay a measly sum to bid for any project. The payment could be made using a bank account, Paypal or Articles Insider Website.

4. Listverse

Listverse is a website solely focused on listicles. Thus, freelance writers are expected to submit listicles on different topics. The website clearly states that it does not need experts in a field; anyone can work for them.

All it demands is an unusual and creative take on life, and the writers can get paid about $100 for delivering the articles. Every listicle must have a minimum of 10 points, and each pointer should have at least two paragraphs.

If the website editors find the listicle worth publishing, the writers can get published and make $100. The website also allows writers to promote their Twitter accounts.

The creator needs to follow a few rules to get their listicle published and paid at Listverse. The foremost rule is that the article must be written in good English. The writers can use a Paypal account to get paid.

5. Cosmopolitan

Who doesn’t know about Cosmopolitan? Writers can submit their concepts for both print and internet outlets.

Before pitching, we highly suggest reviewing their website or prior volumes to check whether they have covered the same issue in the past.

If so, we suggest taking a novel approach to the topic to create a compelling narrative. The body of your pitch should contain the article synopsis in no more than 200 words, along with a decent headline.

Before sending a pitch email, take note of the acceptance rate. The digital journal enables up to 10-15 items every month, but the print issue always accepts 1-2 pieces. You get paid for articles like $250 for every 1,000 words submitted.

Also, read the following: What Is Freelance Writing: Answers to All Your Questions

6. Greatist

A website for writers who want to explore Physical and mental health, and relationships niche for a change, Greatist could be the answer for them.

The website pays over $125 for articles about mental and physical health and relationships. It focuses on maintaining a healthy self and a life-work balance in a busy world. It will give you a massive chance to curate interesting topics and get paid for articles.

7. Bitch Media

Bitch Media seeks feminist content that has been thoroughly researched and is supported by facts and figures to give Readers Earn valuable insights.

They want pieces to provoke conversation, relate the writer’s personal experience to broader societal forces, and provide a feminist reaction to popular culture. An article may be between 1,200 and 3,000 words long.

Depending on your content category, they pay anything from $150 to $1,000 per article.

Copyhackers search for articles that cover subjects like starting and expanding a business, conversational copywriting, freelancing for lifestyle and income, product design, persuasion and psychology, UX and A/B testing, etc. They are also interested in articles that cover topics like product design.

They anticipate that papers will be detailed and well-researched. Generally, less than 2,000 words are often not accepted, and first-person accounts are preferred. The price paid per item is $325. You can also see how many stories are described in when ideas make moneyon this platform and maximize your potential.

12. Informed Content

The prominent publications Informed content works on domestic and international policy. They are seeking papers that can help with domestic and foreign policies.

They are especially enthusiastic about the content material that discusses South Asian and Middle Eastern affairs and US foreign policy. The subjects of climate change, workers’ rights, women’s rights, human rights, religion religious discrimination, and energy are additional topics they desire content on.

Each approved essay will be paid $100 and should be between 800 and 1,000 words for Articlesinsider.

13. Money Pantry

A well-known personal financial blog called Money Pantry frequently discusses matters about money, including ways to make and conserve money.

Consider contributing your idea to the website if you have any good suggestions for saving money, paying off debt, or getting ready for retirement.

Your article’s techniques and ideas must be original and should come from a personal standpoint that is easy for readers to adopt.

To determine whether a given issue has been addressed, consider performing a quick search on the website. Money Pantry accepts only previously unpublished content, and money is made as soon as the post becomes public via PayPal, and you can get paid for articles seamlessly .

14. Metro Parent

Prominent parenting newspaper Metro Parent is seeking parenting-related stories. They demand features that have 1,000 and 2,500 words in length and pay $35 to $350 per story.

In the given towns: Oakland, Livingston, Washtenaw, Macomb and Wayne Counties, they favour articles written by regional freelancers.

When your piece is published, they pay you through a check during the initial week of the publishing month.

15. The Travel Writer’s Life

This amazing website is helping getting paid for writing. They seek articles on how to earn money while travelling, whether through writing, photography, tours, or another method.

Depending on the content type, they pay between $50 and $200.

Also, read the following: Guide to Freelance Content Writing Jobs in India

16. International Living

The periodical International Living, which focuses on retiring and living abroad, is searching for articles on these topics.

For 840 words, they generally pay $250, and for 1,400 words, they pay $400. Additionally, they do pay $50 for exclusive usage of your images, and they do so once your piece is published. Start getting paid for articles login onto this website and boost your income as a freelance writer.

17. Cracked

Meet Cracked, the big fish of the listicle world. The website has been providing new, humorous content since 2007 and is well-known for featuring articles from up-and-coming authors. Get paid for articles on websites with your excellent skills on this platform.

Typically, listicle-style pieces are accepted by Cracked. Aside from that, you are free to write about anything you like, including history, sex, science, technology, and the arts. To be published, the piece must be extremely innovative or humorous.

The website also pays people to make memes, infographics, charts, and other things apart from being paid for articles. Depending on the topic and article format, writers often earn $50 to $200 for each submission.

18. Strong whispers

Various articles about the environment, lifestyle, and many societal topics are available on Strong Whispers. The breadth of the subject matter greatly increases your chances of being published.

You can write about topics including resource exploitation, environmental protection, and education reform. The minimum fee per submission ranges from $50 to $150, although the ultimate fee can vary based on the subject and the amount of research.

To submit, we advise that you include a clear overview of your piece together with your expected payment. You can also include a copy of your previously published work if it’s pertinent.

Try to write as per their style guide after the proposal has been accepted. Once the publication decides to publish, you will get paid via PayPal.

19. Vibrant Life

Vibrant Life’s website, dedicated to health and well-being, welcomes contributions on topics like nutrition, stress reduction, healthy living, spirituality, and mental health.

The articles should have a gender-neutral appeal that draws readers from both male and female groups. If you have some rough thoughts or writings linked to a holistic approach from a wholly Christian perspective, we highly encourage you to contribute to the site and boost your earnings.

Depending on the subject, each submission’s payment ranges from $100 to $300. Avoid using complicated medical jargon to guarantee that readers can understand and enjoy the material.

20. Edible Seattle

Edible Seattle generally takes the help of creators or freelancers for most of their food tales across departments.

Since there are no hard guidelines for themes on the website, writers are allowed to choose whatever food-related subject they like. However, we strongly advise keeping an eye on their call for submissions page because the editor occasionally requests specific topic-related tasks depending on the situation.

Your department and experience are typically reflected in the rates of your article. Payment and a copy of the issue are always included when the article is published.

Chegg India

Choosing the most credible website out of an extensive list of articles available on the search engine might be daunting for writers.

This article will act as a one-stop solution for everyone who wants to earn decent money for rendering writing services to their reputed clients and become a Subject Matter Expert (SME).

Are you also looking to become an SME? Chegg India is here to transform the education system by improving the end results. As we are a student-oriented company, we focus on the growth and development of the student by seeking better ways of doing things in a new, effective way.

Chegg Hiring provides a flexible work schedule so that you can work when it’s most convenient for you. Thanks to the exposure to worldwide academia, your topic expertise will also improve. You will be compensated for each question you answer. Top experts make up to1 lac a month here at Chegg India .

Additionally, you will get the opportunity to network with other professionals and attend expert meet-ups to advance your career. So, what are you waiting for? Check out the platform today and grow your career!

A Part-time Job that Pays like Full-time

Key Take Away From The article

We trust that our list has assisted you in identifying a few amazing websites worth pitching where you can get paid for articles. To create this list, we meticulously investigated each website’s history so that we could attest to their dependability and you can get paid to write.

Frequently Asked Questions

Several websites are looking for freelance writers, and they are offering money according to their requirements and demands. Just join any of the above websites, including Fiverr, Freelancer.com, Vibrant Life, etc., and start getting paid.

Yes, you definitely can. It is a skill that gets perfect with time. If you’re creative enough, join the websites offering great payments and positions.

Yes, all the above-mentioned websites are well-researched for your convenience and are totally legit.

You can earn anything between 50$-200$ for writing an article.

A paid article is a piece of content that you write and get paid for your efforts.

You can sell your articles online. If they are unique enough, your article can feature on all the above-mentioned websites, and you get paid for writing.

For many influencers, the best way to get paid is through brand deals.

TikToker Naomi Melanie Leanage, for example, earned nearly $200,000 in a year from brand collaborations with about 500,000 followers. She said she gets paid a minimum of $6,000 for a TikTok post .

Check out how Lenage built her business and how she makes money on TikTok

Besides brand deals, influencers can also get paid directly by the platforms. YouTube has the most developed program for this, called its Partner Program. Eight YouTubers who make long-form videos shared how much YouTube paid them per 1,000 views , and their answers ranged from $1.61 to $29.30.

TikTok pays influencers directly through its Creator Fund and Creativity Program, and through Pulse, its ad-revenue-sharing program.

Influencers have said the programs often leave much to be desired as far as payouts. Six influencers shared what TikTok paid them through its Creator Fund in a day . It ranged from $0.05 to $189.

TikTok's Pulse program recently launched and is similar to YouTube's Partner Program. Influencers said that how much TikTok paid per 1,000 views ranged from pennies to $17.

The company is currently testing a new fund, dubbed its Creativity Program, where it pays creators "higher average gross revenue" tied to views for making videos that are longer than one minute. Influencers can only participate in either the creator fund or the creativity program, not both, a spokesperson told Insider.

Insider has spoken with dozens of other influencers on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok about how much each of them makes from videos, sponsorships, and other revenue streams.

Here's a breakdown of our coverage:

How do you get paid on TikTok?

To earn money directly from TikTok's Creator Fund or its Creativity Program, users must be 18 years or older, meet a baseline of 10,000 followers, and have accrued at least 100,000 video views in the last 30 days. To be a part of TikTok Pulse, creators need at least 100,000 followers.

How much influencers earn from brand deals

Many influencers rely on sponsored content — from a set of Instagram posts and Stories to a dedicated YouTube video promoting a company — to earn money.

Rates for these types of brand deals vary based on an influencer's engagement rate, platform, and other factors like usage rights.

Here's a breakdown of our coverage of how much influencers make for brand deals and sponsorships.

Many sponsorship opportunities come from the brand emailing the influencer or their management company directly.

Creators on YouTube promote brands a few different ways, from an entire video dedicated to speaking about the company or product to a 30-second mention. The length of the mention can play a role in how much the creator charges, some influencers said.

Here's how much 4 YouTubers make from brand deals:

Instagram has launched more than 10 money-making tools for creators since 2020 . Aside from being paid directly from the platform, one of the main ways many influencers earn money on Instagram is by promoting brands through sponsored in-feed posts, stories, and reels.

Here's how much 21 Instagram influencers make from brand deals:

Many brands have increased their spending on TikTok, but it has been hard for some influencers native to the platform to build a stable business.

Although the app's short video format has taken over social media, some creators say they are struggling to form a lasting bond with fans and scale their businesses. Still, brand deals have provided lucrative revenue stream for many TikTok creators.

Here's how much 20 TikTokers make from brand deals:

How much influencers make promoting songs, especially on TikTok

One of the most popular ways to earn money as a TikToker is by promoting songs in videos. Music marketers and record labels regularly pay TikTok users to post on the app in an attempt to make a new track go viral.

How much influencers earn from affiliate links

Some influencers use platforms like LiketoKnow.it and Collective Voice (formerly ShopStyle) to generate affiliate links, or discount codes provided by brands, to earn a percentage of sales. ( Read more about the top 9 affiliate platforms for influencers .)

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How to get paid on instagram.

In 2020, Instagram announced "Badges," which allow fans to tip creators who livestream on the app. Two years later, Instagram added "Gifts" on Instagram reels, which let fans send influencers "gifts" via the Instagram app using its own internal currency called Stars.

Instagram has also rolled out a paid-content feature called Subscriptions. Subscriptions allow creators to share gated content, from exclusive stories to livestreams, in a fashion similar to that of Patreon or OnlyFans.

Meta, which owns Instagram, does not plan to take a cut from these transactions until 2024 .

Instagram is testing a new tool that would let creators earn money through "Gifts" on Reels

Instagram is testing "Subscriptions" that let creators make money from exclusive content

How to get paid by YouTube

Many YouTube creators earn money off the ads that play in their videos and receive a monthly payout.

Creators who are part of the Partner Program can monetize their videos with Google-placed ads.

Creators must have at least YouTube 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours in the past year to apply for the Partner Program and get paid. Google then pays creators 55% of the revenue their channels earn from the ads that run on them.

Creators also recently became able to earn money from YouTube shorts. Creators who reach 10 million views in 90 days on shorts, as well as 1,000 subscribers, are able to apply to join the Partner Program.

Here's a breakdown of how much money YouTubers make in a month from the Partner Program:

YouTube's central creator monetization metric is called revenue per mille (RPM). That rate shows how much revenue a creator earns per every 1,000 video views (after YouTube's 45% cut). No creator consistently makes the same rate, which depends on factors like the viewers and advertisers the video attracts.

Here's a breakdown of how much money some YouTubers have made for 1,000 views (RPM), for 100,000 views, 1 million views, and the most they've made from a single video:

What you need to know about the debt ceiling as the deadline looms

Kelsey Snell

People pass the front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, on March 22. Brinkmanship in Washington over raising the U.S. debt ceiling has begun to raise worries in parts of the financial markets. Peter Morgan/AP hide caption

The federal government is perilously close to being unable to make payments on the country's debt. It is up to Congress to vote to increase the nation's borrowing cap, known as the debt limit. But House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is in a standoff with President Biden over Republican demands to tie the debt limit to spending caps and other policy demands.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned that the country could run out of borrowing authority by June 1, leaving negotiators little time to reach an agreement.

Biden recently met with McCarthy, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to discuss a path forward. The group failed to reach a deal, but staff level talks are ongoing in an effort to avoid default.

Here are nine questions you may be asking about the debt ceiling and the fight over it.

What is the debt ceiling?

The "debt ceiling" or "debt limit" is a cap on how much debt the federal government is allowed to accumulate. Congress is constitutionally required to authorize the issuance of debt. Doing so then allows the government borrow to meet its existing legal obligations like Social Security and Medicare benefits, military salaries, interest on the national debt, tax refunds and other payments.

"It used to be that every time you did a Treasury auction where you borrowed, Congress would pass a new law just for that one auction," said Jason Furman, a top economic adviser to former President Barack Obama and an economics professor at Harvard.

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"In 1917, the United States needed to borrow a lot of money for World War I," he said. "So in order to simplify that process and make it easier, Congress shifted to a new system where they said, you can borrow up to this amount of money and then come back to us and we'll raise it."

Congress has increased or suspended the debt limit 78 times since 1960 , according to the Treasury Department.

How do experts know when the government has really run out of funds?

Economists look at how much the government is expected to bring in through tax payments, when those payments are expected to arrive in Treasury accounts and scheduled debt payments to determine a timeframe, known as an X-Date for when the debt authority might run out.

However, the Treasury Department has access to a few tools, known as extraordinary measures , to avoid default. Those measures include moving investments and deploying accounting tools to shift funds around.

The federal government technically hit the debt limit in January and extraordinary measures have kept payments flowing since then. Experts cannot pinpoint the exact date when funds will run out but they can identify a general range which is expected to fall sometime in early June or possibly as late as July or August.

What the debt ceiling standoff could mean for your retirement plans

Why is there a fight over it.

Debt has generally been an unpopular concept in American politics.

Every vote a lawmaker casts is part of that person's political record and many lawmakers do not want to be seen as signing off on more federal borrowing or spending.

Lawmakers also like to tack extraneous priorities onto bills that are seen as must-pass legislation. That makes the debt limit a prime target for political fights.

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy of Calif., left, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, listen as President Biden before an Oval Office meeting on the debt limit on May 9. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York also attended. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption

"Everybody uses [bills to increase] the debt ceiling for their favorite policies," said Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "The real problem here is that you now have people actually talking about defaulting."

In the past, votes to increase the debt limit were relatively quiet, non-controversial affairs. That changed in 2011 when the country came dangerously close to default.

Mark Zandi, an analyst at Moody's Analytics, said there have been political battles over the debt before but none were as dangerous or consequential as the 2011 fight.

"It wasn't clear up until the very end that lawmakers were going to figure out a way to sign on the dotted line and increase the limit," Zandi said. "The stock market at one point I think was down intraday almost 20%. That's a pretty large market swoon."

At the time, Republican House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, was in a standoff with Obama over spending. Republicans wanted deep spending cuts and caps on how much federal spending could grow after the cuts were enacted.

Obama insisted Congress raise the debt limit without any extraneous policies --known as a clean increase.

Congress eventually reached a deal to increase the debt limit along with caps on future spending but not before the credit rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded the nation's debt for the first time ever.

Many economists say the situation today is strikingly similar to the political fight in 2011 and there are serious concerns that the country could default.

What could happen if it's not raised?

The Treasury Department would be unable to make payments when they are due. Missing a payment of any kind or size would be considered a default.

The fight over the debt ceiling could sink the economy. This is how we got here

Some Republicans have suggested choosing which debts to pay, a system called payment prioritization . Congress would have to pass a law to make that possible, which is politically very unlikely. Most experts say it might also be impossible to execute from a practical standpoint and the idea is not being seriously considered as a solution at this time.

Has the U.S. ever failed to make these debt payments?

And that is part of why the federal government is able to easily sell share Treasury bonds to investors across the globe and why the U.S. dollar is one of the most trusted currencies.

"Treasuries are the debt vehicle that are most trusted in the entire world to the point where even if there is an economic crisis that originated in the U.S., people come and buy treasuries because they trust them," MacGuineas said. "They trust the U.S. they trust the fact that they will get paid if that is called into question, because we actually do start to default and we don't pay the interest that is due. We will never be able to regain that most trusted role in the same capacity we had before"

Would capping or cutting spending now resolve the problem?

No, the debt limit is related to money that has been spent as a result of laws Congress already passed.

"As a mathematical consequence of the laws Congress already passed, you have to borrow a certain amount," Furman said. "This borrowing isn't some unilateral thing that President Biden wants to do in order to do his favorite projects. It is in order to accomplish what Congress told him to accomplish."

In fact, some of the debt being accumulated is the result of laws passed under former presidents, including Donald Trump.

Spending caps and other changes included in a bill passed by House Republicans are separate policies intended to address future debt accumulation, not the current need to increase the debt limit.

What else could be affected by a default?

A U.S. default could cause a huge ripple of negative consequences throughout the global financial system. Any hit to the country's credit rating could do long-term harm to the value of U.S. treasuries and make the country a less appealing investment.

"I am truly concerned there is an actual chance of default and that is so dangerous and such a sign that the U.S. is not able to govern itself in a way that is functioning," MacGuineas said. "We should all be worried both about the debt ceiling itself, but also about what it says about our politics."

Zandi warned that the consequences could go beyond just investment and lending rates.

"Don't worry about your stock portfolio, worry about your job," he said. "Because a lot of jobs are going to be lost. Unemployment is going to be a lot higher. Is the economy struggling already trying to avoid recession because of high inflation, high interest rates? This will certainly push us and, you know, it's going to be about layoffs. Stock portfolios will be the least of people's worries."

Furman said it could be worse than the 2008 financial crisis when the fall of Lehman Brothers Bank triggered a global financial crisis.

"It could be worse than Lehman Brothers, where everyone basically demands their money back because they don't believe the collateral anymore," Furman said. "And you have the equivalent of a run on the global financial system."

Most experts agree the current debt limit process isn't working. MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget said Congress should be reassessing debt and spending priorities but the debt limit mechanism does not actually force them to make choices.

"The debt ceiling is a terrible way to try to impose fiscal responsibility," she said. "It doesn't make sense. It says after you vote to borrow a lot of money then you will then vote whether to actually make good on those bills. That's a dumb approach."

Instead, she suggested a system where Congress agrees to increase the debt limit when they pass legislation.

Others economists have suggested abolishing the debt limit entirely.

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When Eva Schachinger married at 22, she applied for public housing. Luckily, she lived in Vienna, which has some of the best public housing in the world. It was 1968. Eva was a teacher, and her husband, Klaus-Peter, was an accountant for the city’s public-transportation system. She grew up in a public-housing complex in the center of the city, where her grandmother, who cared for her from 6 in the morning until 6 at night, lived in one of five buildings arranged around a courtyard. Eva played all day with friends from the complex.

Her mother, who was renting on the private market after a divorce, had recently applied for public housing, too, and she was offered a unit first, in 1971. By then, Eva had a young daughter, and her mother decided Eva needed the spot more and offered it to her. The available unit was in the 21st District, on the northeastern edge of the city. Eva’s father-in-law warned her — not entirely jokingly — that out there, they would be the first to be occupied by the Russians. But she and Klaus-Peter liked the floor plan: Although the apartment was an economical 732 square feet, it had two bedrooms, a living room, a dining room, a toilet and washroom and a balcony. The rent was 700 schillings. (That’s about 55 euros, though the currency wasn’t introduced until 2002.) Eva transferred her teaching job to the 21st District, to a school a 15-minute walk from her new apartment.

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When I met Eva late last year, she looked smart in a jean jacket with a neatly tied silk scarf around her neck, small dangly earrings and cropped curly hair. Over the course of the last 44 years, as she continued to teach English to fifth through eighth grades, Eva’s rent increased almost fivefold, to 270 euros from 55, but her wages increased more than 20-fold, to 3,375 euros a month from 150. Viennese law dictates that rents in public housing can increase only with inflation, and only when the year’s inflation exceeds 5 percent. By the time she retired in 2007, Eva’s rent was only 8 percent of her income. Because her husband was earning 4,000 euros a month, their rent amounted to 3.6 percent of their incomes combined.

That’s about what Vienna was aiming for back in 1919, when the city began planning its world-famous municipal housing, known as the Gemeindebauten. Before World War I, Vienna had some of the worst housing conditions in Europe, Eve Blau notes in her book, “The Architecture of Red Vienna.” Many working-class families had to take on subtenants or bed tenants (day and night workers who slept in the same bed at different times) in order to pay their rent. But from 1923 to 1934, in a period known as Red Vienna, the ruling Social Democratic Party built 64,000 new units in 400 housing blocks, increasing the city’s housing supply by about 10 percent. Some 200,000 people, one-tenth of the population, were rehoused in these buildings, with rents set at 3.5 percent of the average semiskilled worker’s income, enough to cover the cost of maintenance and operation.

Experts refer to Vienna’s Gemeindebauten as “social housing,” a phrase that captures how the city’s public housing and other limited-profit housing are a widely shared social benefit: The Gemeindebauten welcome the middle class, not just the poor. In Vienna, a whopping 80 percent of residents qualify for public housing, and once you have a contract, it never expires, even if you get richer. Housing experts believe that this approach leads to greater economic diversity within public housing — and better outcomes for the people living in it.

An aerial view of Alt-Erlaa housing complex. There are pools on many of the roofs and many of the patios of the apartments have visible plant life.

In 2015, before they bought an apartment on the private market, the Schachingers were making about 80,000 euros ($87,000) a year, roughly the income of the average U.S. household in 2021. Eva and Klaus-Peter paid 26 percent and 29 percent in income tax, respectively, but just 4 percent of their pretax income was going toward rent, which is about what the average American household spends on meals eaten out and half a percentage point less than what the average American spends on “entertainment.” Even if the Schachingers got a new contract today on their unit, their monthly payments would be an estimated 542 euros, or only 8 percent of their income. Vienna’s generous supply of social housing helps keep costs down for everyone: In 2021, Viennese living in private housing spent 26 percent of their post-tax income on rent and energy costs, on average, which is only slightly more than the figure for social-housing residents overall (22 percent). Meanwhile, 49 percent of American renters — 21.6 million people — are cost-burdened, paying landlords more than 30 percent of their pretax income, and the percentage can be even higher in expensive cities. In New York City, the median renter household spends a staggering 36 percent of its pretax income on rent.

To American eyes, the whole Viennese setup can appear fancifully socialistic. But set that aside, and what’s mind-boggling is how social housing gives the economic lives of Viennese an entirely different shape. Imagine if your housing expenses were more like the Schachingers’. Imagine having to think about them to the same degree that you think about your restaurant choices or streaming-service subscriptions. Imagine, too, where the rest of your income might go, if you spent much less of it on housing. Vienna invites us to envision a world in which homeownership isn’t the only way to secure a certain future — and what our lives might look like as a result.

Writing about housing in the United States, I’ve become depressed. I’m the scold at the dinner party, revolted by big investors speculating in the housing market, yes, but also by the thousands of small-time investors — including some of my own friends — who are pooling money to buy homes in states they’ve never seen or buying rental properties in gentrifying neighborhoods. But the math is hard to argue with. Buying a home near work is more lucrative than working. The growth of asset values has outstripped returns on labor for four decades, and a McKinsey report found that a majority of those assets — 68 percent — is real estate. Last year, one in four home sales was to someone who had no intention of living in it. These investors are particularly incentivized to buy the sorts of homes most needed by first-time buyers: Inexpensive properties generate the highest rental-income cash flows.

Real estate is a place where money literally grows on tree beams. In the last decade, the typical owner of a single-family home acquired nearly $200,000 in appreciation. “Another word for asset appreciation is inflation,” the academics Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper and Martijn Konings write in “The Asset Economy,” “an increase in monetary value without any corresponding change in the nature of the good itself or the conditions of its production that would make it scarcer or justify an increased demand for it.” That inflation is creating a treacherous gulch between the housing haves and have-nots. Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found that, in 2019, the median net worth of U.S. renters was just 2.5 percent of the median net worth of homeowners: $6,270 versus $254,900. Last year, as higher interest rates slowed home sales and caused prices to plateau (and even soften in some overheated cities), the asking price of the median U.S. rental reached $2,000 a month, a record high, according to Redfin. Inflated rent prices line the pockets of landlords while preventing renters from saving for a down payment and ever getting off the treadmill.

The astronomical pace of appreciation is the culmination of decades of policy aimed at encouraging home buying. The fixed-rate, 30-year mortgage is a particularly American invention, possible only because the federal government insures the debt — if a borrower defaults, the government is on the hook. (Only one other country, Denmark, offers the same instrument.) Then there’s our tax code, which allows those affluent enough to buy homes and itemize their deductions to write off the interest they pay on their mortgages: the bigger the mortgage, the bigger the deduction. Homeowners can deduct up to $10,000 of their property taxes from their federal taxes too, and if they sell their primary residence, they may be able to avoid paying capital gains on profits of up to $250,000 per person ($500,000 for couples). As housing activists like to point out, everyone who has a mortgage is living in subsidized housing.

Last year, troubled by the seeming intractability of these problems, I began looking for solutions outside the United States. Could the answer be rent control, as in Berlin? It might have seemed that way a decade or so ago, before investors and new residents began pouring into the city, causing land values to quintuple; now, despite rent-stabilization laws, even the apartments that no one else wanted to buy 15 years ago are huge moneymakers. Many residents with affordable rental contracts are locked into them because it would be too expensive or competitive to move. Frustrated by the housing squeeze, tenant organizers recently put forth an “expropriation” measure, which called for landlords with more than 3,000 units to sell their holdings back to the government at below-market prices. In a 2021 referendum, 59 percent of Berliners voted in favor of it, but it’s not clear whether it will ever be implemented.

Could the answer be loosening zoning restrictions, as Tokyo did in 2002? That has certainly helped. In 2014, there was more home construction in the city than in all of England. Since then, home prices have stabilized. Tokyo is largely celebrated as a model by YIMBYs (members of the “yes, in my backyard” movement) because they like its market-driven approach to housing abundance. They often point out that the city builds five times as much housing per capita as California. But Japan is a very different market because of its earthquake risk: Because regulatory codes and mitigation technologies are ever improving, structures often fully depreciate within 35 years. Older homes are often undermaintained because there’s little expectation that any investment might be recaptured upon resale; they’re thought of like used clothing or cars — you resell at a loss.

Auckland, New Zealand, might seem like a more applicable example. In 2016, the city, which has one of the most expensive housing markets in the world, “upzoned” 75 percent of its residential land, increasing its legal capacity for housing by about 300 percent in an effort to encourage multifamily-housing construction and tamp down prices. In areas that were upzoned, the total number of building permits granted (a way of estimating new construction) more than quadrupled from 2016 to 2021. As intended, the relative value of underdeveloped land increased, because it could suddenly host more housing, and the relative value of units in densely developed areas decreased, tempering sky-high prices. But there are limits to what upzoning can do. Often the benefits of allowing greater density are captured by developers, who price the new units far above cost. It doesn’t offer renters security or directly create the type of housing most needed: affordable housing.

That’s what differentiates Vienna. Perhaps no other developed city has done more to protect residents from the commodification of housing. In Vienna, 43 percent of all housing is insulated from the market, meaning the rental prices reflect costs or rates set by law — not “what the market will bear” or what a person with no other options will pay. The government subsidizes affordable units for a wide range of incomes. The mean gross household income in Vienna is 57,700 euros a year, but any person who makes under 70,000 euros qualifies for a Gemeindebau unit. Once in, you never have to leave. It doesn’t matter if you start earning more. The government never checks your salary again. Two-thirds of the city’s rental housing is covered by rent control, and all tenants have just-cause eviction protections. Such regulations, when coupled with adequate supply, give renters a level of stability comparable to American owners with fixed mortgages. As a result, 80 percent of all households in Vienna choose to rent.

The key difference is that Vienna prioritizes subsidizing construction, while the United States prioritizes subsidizing people, with things like housing vouchers. One model focuses on supply, the other on demand. Vienna’s choice illustrates a fundamental economic reality, which is that a large-enough supply of social housing offers a market alternative that improves housing for all.

One afternoon last fall, I walked through central Vienna, past ornate buildings with lacy balconies, balustrades and porticos — private apartments from the 19th century. They were interspersed with social-housing blocks from the 1920s and 1930s — the Gemeindebauten, which stood out not only for their modernist architecture but also for the triumphant red block lettering on their facades, announcing: Erbaut von der Gemeinde Wien in den Jahren 1925-1926 aus den Mitteln der Wohnbausteuer . (“Built by the municipality of Vienna in the years 1925-1926 from funds from the housing tax.”) A stroke of political genius, I thought, as I waited for the tram: explanation and advertising. Half an hour later, I was in the 21st District, the “Russian territory” where Eva Schachinger used to live. Wohnpartner, the city agency that tries to foster community within the Gemeindebauten and helps resolve tenant conflicts, was having an open house at her old building, a flat, minimalist complex with orange elevator shafts.

Following Wohnpartner signs, I found the glass-walled community center and entered. Most of the attendees were mothers with small children or retired people. There was a painting station, table tennis and a plant exchange. People had brought their secondhand goods to give away, and a millennial Wohnpartner staff member offered tech help, which, surprisingly, no one seemed to need. Among the permanent fixtures was a library filled with free books and a play area with an array of wooden toys.

I took a seat with Eva in the communal kitchen, where someone had made a large pot of butternut-squash soup. (Some of Red Vienna’s planners had hoped to centralize cooking in communal facilities with industrial-strength machines, but the fascists came first, and then, under capitalism, Austrian families quickly became accustomed to shelling out for their own KitchenAids, Vitamixes and Nespresso machines.) Since retiring, Eva has been collaborating with Malyuun Badeed, the building’s caretaker, on a twice-yearly magazine for the complex that includes a recipe and a crossword, along with the latest community news. Badeed, who joined us in the kitchen, wore a black hijab with pearls and waved her hands as she spoke of leaving Somalia as a single mother in the 1990s. When she first arrived in Vienna, she hawked newspapers on the street; now she helped produce one.

Eva told me she often came back to the Gemeindebau to tutor students from the complex with a woman named Edith, an elderly neighbor who lived in a nearby Gemeindebau. Edith’s next-door neighbors help buy and deliver her groceries, which she has difficulty carrying. In exchange, she watches over their three children. When Eva called to wish her a merry Christmas, Edith was busy wrapping 40 presents for the three kids; she hid them around her apartment so they wouldn’t be found before Santa came to visit. “The Gemeindebau is where socialization happens,” Eva was fond of telling me, and this is what socialization looks like across the generations.

I learned that the average waiting time to get a Gemeindebau is about two years (at any given moment there are 12,000 or so people on the waiting list, and each year about 10,000 or more people are housed). Vienna residents — anyone who has had a fixed address for two years, whether they are a citizen or not — may apply, and applications are evaluated based on need. Florian Kogler, a 21-year-old university student, was considered an urgent case because he lived in an overcrowded two-bedroom apartment with his mother, stepfather and two siblings. He shared a room with his brother, while his parents slept in the living room. He also got priority because he was moving into his own apartment for the first time. Kogler was offered an apartment in about a month. “That’s unusually fast,” he told me.

Applicants may decline up to two units; if they decline a third, they have to apply again. Kogler took the first flat offered to him, a 355-square-foot studio drenched in light overlooking a playground in the central 12th District. It cost 350 euros a month; his monthly income from working part time at a museum is about 1,000 euros. Those who need extra assistance to pay their rent receive individual subsidies. Students under 25, like Kogler, can qualify for 200 euros a month.

Every few years, there is a debate about whether the affluent should be forced to give up their Gemeindebau leases — that is, whether the units should be means-tested. The face of this debate, for some, is Peter Pilz, a former member of Austria’s Green Party in Parliament. Pilz lives in Goethehof, one of the largest Gemeindebauten by the Danube River. He moved into a unit as a university student to live with his grandmother, who had been there since the building opened in 1932. Before she died, he took over her contract. (He was, one might say, grandmothered in.) Pilz was elected to Parliament in 1986 and eventually started making more than 8,000 euros a month.

Even in Vienna, Pilz’s tenancy raised eyebrows, making headlines in Austria’s conservative paper, Österreich, which claimed in 2012 that he was paying only 66.18 euros a month in rent. (Pilz says he was paying, including building costs, closer to 250 euros a month.) “Given that Pilz’s income is well over the usual tariff for social housing, it does look like we’re talking about social fraud here,” said the general secretary of the conservative Freedom Party of Austria.

Pilz did nothing illegal. Once in a Gemeindebau, you never have to leave. But is it unethical for the wealthy to stay? City housing officials point out that having wealthier tenants in the Gemeindebauten helps thwart the problems that accompany concentrated poverty, creating a more stable, healthier environment for everyone. Unlike in the United States, where public housing is only for the poorest — the average resident’s annual household income was $15,219 in 2019, well below the federal poverty line of $16,910 for a family of two — the relative integration of the Gemeindebauten means that they are not stigmatized.

That’s not to say they are problem-free. Noomi Anyanwu, the 23-year-old founder of Black Voices Austria, told me that she grew up in a Gemeindebau with an Austrian mother and a Nigerian father. When she wasn’t more than 5, a white boy in the complex who was a bit older called her brother a racial slur while everyone was playing in the courtyard. Overhearing the spat, the fathers descended into the courtyard. But the white father didn’t apologize; he doubled down, repeating what his son said. Just a few years later, Anyanwu said, her father left the country because of employment discrimination and racist treatment by the police.

So I was surprised when Anyanwu told me that, on the whole, her experience with social housing was positive. The Gemeindebau was its own village within the city, she said. She estimated that 50 percent of her Gemeindebau neighbors were immigrants — “it reflected society,” she told me. (Vienna actually has a slightly higher percentage of foreign-born residents than New York City.) A girl her age named Safiya lived in an apartment across the hall from hers and would become her best friend. Safiya’s father was also from Africa — from Somalia — and he, too, left because of racism. But the affordability of the Gemeindebau allowed the girls’ mothers to maintain stability.

Esra Ozmen, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, grew up in Sandleitenhof, one of the largest Geimendebauten, which has villa-like courtyards and stonework. As an adult, she moved into her own Gemeindebau studio. Ozmen says affordable housing gave her the stability to study for a Ph.D. in fine art while also pursuing a rap career. She makes 1,000 to 2,000 euros a month from her shows and from organizing cultural events. “I have a car,” she told me. “A Mercedes A-Class from the ’90s. I eat out. I drink one coffee out every day. I don’t have a lot of money. But I live rich.”

Social housing like Vienna’s might seem inconceivable in America. But American politicians seriously considered it in the 1930s. After the stock-market crash of 1929, the U.S. housing market also collapsed; half of mortgage debt was in default by 1933. Both the right and the left agreed that the government needed to intervene. The question was how. According to the historian Kenneth T. Jackson in his book “Crabgrass Frontier,” at the time, the typical mortgage ranged from five to 10 years, and borrowers paid interest only until the end of the term, when full payment was due or a borrower refinanced. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933, Congress created the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation to buy underwater mortgages and stabilize the housing market. Within two years, the H.O.L.C. restructured more than a million mortgages, covering 10 percent of all owner-occupied homes. Principal and interest were bundled together so that over about 20 years of manageable payments, borrowers became outright homeowners.

But that wasn’t enough to salvage the real estate market or the economy. During the Great Depression, one-quarter of all Americans were unemployed, and the construction industry was hit particularly hard. The United States needed the same things as Vienna at the time: employment and better housing conditions for workers. Housing is “the wheel within the wheel to move the whole economic engine,” said Marriner Eccles, Roosevelt’s Federal Reserve chairman. The Federal Public Works Administration, an emergency jobs program, funded construction of about 50 new public-housing complexes, including the Harlem River Houses in New York City, a project seemingly straight out of Vienna, with Beaux-Arts-inspired buildings along a central courtyard with a nursery school, health clinics and a public library.

Although this housing was admired, it was costly and mired in controversy, writes the historian Gail Radford, who chronicles the New Deal-era debate over social housing in her book, “Modern Housing for America.” Roosevelt sought a housing plan that didn’t require the government to keep footing the bill. At a time when Communism was gaining traction, he preferred to wed Americans to capitalism. The best way to do that? Broaden the base of homeowners — increase the number of Americans with a personal investment in property.

Congress’s National Housing Act of 1934 would rescue the housing market and establish the housing policy that defines America today. It made permanent the fixed-rate, long-term mortgage that the H.O.L.C. had helped introduce. Banks were reluctant to assume risk over decades, so the act created the Federal Housing Administration (F.H.A.) to insure mortgage debt with the full backing of the U.S. Treasury as long as loans conformed to standards it set — for instance, homes had to appraise for the purchase price and had to be in a stable-enough neighborhood, which meant a white-enough neighborhood, to make sure the government wouldn’t lose money if a borrower defaulted. On its maps, the F.H.A. colored the neighborhoods deemed too risky for mortgage insurance in red — a form of “redlining,” a policy that did a great deal to create the grave racial disparities in wealth that persist today. “No agency of the United States government has had a more pervasive and powerful impact on the American people over the past half-century,” Jackson writes.

But the Federal Housing Administration had no plan to address low-income housing needs. So Senator Robert Wagner, a New York Democrat, introduced a second bill, inspired by what the housing scholar Catherine Bauer had seen in Vienna and other European cities. As proposed, the Housing Act of 1937, which Bauer helped write, would have included financing for the construction of both limited-profit housing and public housing. Faced with fierce opposition from the real estate industry, Wagner and Bauer accepted five fatal compromises in order to pass the bill. First, support for nonprofit and limited-profit cooperatives was eliminated. Second, location decisions were left to local governments, many of whose constituents greeted public housing like the bubonic plague, as one commenter put it. Third, a provision was added for an “equivalent elimination” of slum property, meaning that for each new unit built, a slum dwelling had to be cleared. (That way, public housing wouldn’t dampen landlords’ profits by increasing the overall supply of units.) Fourth, public housing would be eligible only to those so poor that they could never secure decent housing in the private market.

Fifth and finally, construction costs were severely limited. The problem with America’s public housing today isn’t just that it’s underfunded and poorly maintained. It’s that it wasn’t built well to begin with. Doors were left off closets; interior walls were thin and cheap. At a public-housing complex in Red Hook, Brooklyn, the elevator only stopped on every other floor. As Radford writes, “Those who hated public housing remained hostile, while the minimal buildings produced by the [United States Housing Authority] attracted no new allies and discouraged some of the old ones.” Indeed, America’s public housing was designed to fail: to be unappealing to anyone who could afford to rent.

As Bauer predicted early on, housing programs targeting only the poor would lack the political support necessary to thrive. Only an integrated program, one that welcomed the majority like the Gemeindebau of Vienna, would be sustainable. But the U.S. government prioritized support for banking rather than construction. The 30-year mortgage was a huge economic boon for the millions of Americans who took one out, benefiting from the federal subsidies and the nation’s long upward trajectory in home prices; the instrument leveraged many a renter and public-housing resident into homeownership and “turned many a former dependent of the public sector into a small-time fiscal conservative,” as Adkins, Cooper and Konings write in “The Asset Economy.”

This constituency of middle-class homeowners is what the Dartmouth emeritus economist William A. Fischel calls “homevoters”: a coalition of Americans who — consciously or not — vote to protect the value of their property. They tend to oppose local development and favor exclusionary zoning — which ensures maximum appreciation and prevents their tax dollars from extending to poorer neighborhoods. This tendency, alongside stagnant wages, has transformed the nation’s housing stock into an ever-scarcer and ever-more-expensive class of speculative asset. It’s almost impossible to “cater to the expectations of an existing constituency of middle-class homeowners without raising the barriers of entry for the rest of society,” Adkins and her colleagues write. “A middle-class politics of asset democratization has ended up undermining the conditions of its own viability.”

I wasn’t the only American looking to Vienna for possible answers to America’s housing crisis. I was there following a delegation from New York that had come to study the city’s housing system — 50 policymakers, researchers and activists invited by Housing Justice for All, an alliance of housing organizers across the state, and the Action Lab, a social-movement hub. One afternoon, I joined them on a tour of Karl-Marx-Hof, one of the largest housing complexes in the world.

Ever since Karl-Marx-Hof opened in 1930, it has been a sort of Rorschach test — a domineering socialist monstrosity or a pioneering communitarian stronghold, depending on your political perspective. Exiting the subway station, the building shot up before me, seven stories tall and three-quarters of a mile long, a perimeter block that looks like a citadel. The core of the building is cream-colored, but its sandstone red elements draw the eye — red balconies and red towers topped by staffs that can fly enormous banners that are visible miles away. Its six huge arched passageways, also red, give the complex the civic stature of an aqueduct.

Julia Anna Schranz, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Vienna and our guide, wore Converse, jeans and a long red wool coat. She pointed out four grim ceramic figures mounted on top of the archways, explaining that they were personifications of enlightenment, freedom, welfare and physical culture. These embellishments — commissions to increase employment during the period between the world wars, were also seen as an investment in the aesthetics of the Gemeindebauten and a tribute to its tenants.

Schranz opened the thick, thorny iron gates spanning one archway, and we passed into a grassy courtyard — nearly two football fields in size. Painted an off-white that glowed in the morning sun, the interior was a striking contrast with the more formidable exterior.

“ These are the projects,” India Walton, a community organizer from Buffalo, said wryly. There was a rose garden. Children — Black, brown, white — were running and shrieking in a playground attached to an on-site kindergarten. Walton, now in her 40s, had twins when she was just 19 and raised them while working as a nurse. Decades later, she became politically active, and in 2021 she won the Democratic nomination for mayor of Buffalo, only to be defeated by a write-in campaign by the Democratic incumbent. Where would she be now if she had the option of living in a place like this? She would have left her marriage sooner, Walton told me. “I might not have been a nurse, but a doctor.” A child in the kindergarten waved at her, and she waved back.

When Karl-Marx-Hof opened, it housed 5,000 people in 1,400 apartments. These apartments were coveted. “It had two central laundries, two communal bathing facilities with tubs and showers, a dental clinic, maternity clinic, a health-insurance office, library, youth hostel, post office, and a pharmacy and 25 other commercial premises, including a restaurant and the offices and showroom of the BEST, the city-run furnishing and interior-design advice center,” Blau writes.

Now fewer than 3,000 tenants live in Karl-Marx-Hof — not because it’s undesirable but because living standards have improved and, in response, Vienna has allotted tenants more space. Vienna’s housing authority believes that a family of four needs around 1,100 square feet, so it combined some of the units to create larger ones.

A bobblehead nodded from a balcony with potted plants and cairns. An older Austrian man waved. State Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher, a Democrat who had recently unseated the incumbent Democrat in the 50th Assembly District, which includes parts of Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Fort Greene, live-tweeted the tour on her phone. State Senator Julia Salazar, a Democrat representing the 18th State Senate District, which covers Bushwick, took notes with a gold pen on a notebook with black paper. Renette Bradley, a tenant organizer, wore a Nickelodeon shirt, overalls, a black New York beanie and lavishly long fake lashes. “Can you be paroled here?” she asked, her voice husky and direct. This affected many of Bradley’s friends and relatives who, upon release from prison, were left homeless because they weren’t allowed to join family living in public housing.

Schranz looked at her blankly.

“Can you come out of prison and live here?” Bradley repeated.

“Of course,” Schranz said. “Why not? If you’re out, you’re out.”

The New Yorkers murmured. Schranz continued to look at us questioningly.

“There’s like four or five problems baked into that question that they just don’t understand,” Joseph Loonam, a housing campaign coordinator with VOCAL-NY, said as we walked toward the laundry facilities. He told me that a member of his organization had been arrested more than 40 times because whenever he visits his family in the Gowanus projects, he violates the terms of his plea deal.

At the museum store, I bought a red potholder crocheted by a local women’s co-op: a Red Vienna-era schema of the “three evils” seizing Europe (Nazism, Communism, monarchism), each represented by white arrows. Several organizers and state legislators bought one, too. When the college student working at the museum shop said he was all out, a lawmaker suggested that he could sell the potholders in the display case. “We aren’t used to this,” the college student said, unlocking the case, by which he seemed to mean American patterns of consumption. The American need to own.

Vienna has succeeded in curbing the craving to own. It has done it by driving down the price of land through rezoning and rent control. In general, the beneficiaries of these land-use policies are less the Gemeindebauten (they stopped building from 2004 to 2015 and now only produce some 500 units a year) and more the limited-profit housing associations, the origins of which preceded Red Vienna and have built 3,000 to 5,000 units a year for the last four decades.

Today limited-profit housing accounts for half the city’s social housing. Limited-profit housing associations are restricted to charging rents that reflect costs. Investors — banks, insurance funds — may buy shares of the limited-profit housing associations, generally to help fund initial construction. They are paid a low rate of annual interest on their shares. Any profits beyond that must be reinvested in the construction of new social housing. “It creates a revolving flow of financing for social housing,” said Justin Kadi, a professor in planning and housing at the University of Cambridge. Vienna’s main outlay toward housing is now providing low-cost financing for construction — and the government gets that money back.

On a gray Friday, Wilhelm Andel, a tall 84-year-old wearing jeans and a leather jacket, greeted me at the Alt-Erlaa tram stop to show me the limited-profit complex where he had lived for 40 years. Alt-Erlaa is one of the largest limited-profit complexes in Vienna, with 3,181 units in 18 futuristic towers, 23 to 27 stories tall, built between 1973 and 1986. As we approached, I saw that the towers had aged surprisingly well, maybe because greenery is timeless, and vegetation seemed to cascade off the tiered balconies. Willie had chosen a unit on the sixth floor. His rent for a nearly-1,200-square-foot apartment was 824 euros — an amount that would be reasonable for Amarillo, Texas, or Shreveport, La., but out of the question in any of the 50 largest American metro areas.

Living in Alt-Erlaa, Willie enjoyed access to seven rooftop swimming pools, seven indoor swimming pools, tennis courts, gyms and acclaimed art. When the rest of the delegation joined us, he led us toward one of his favorite aspects of the buildings: two murals in the lobby of the second building meditating on the role of the news media and labor in society. They were by the Austrian artist Alfred Hrdlicka. “They remind me of Orozco,” said Dorca Reynoso, an employee at Verizon, referring to the political murals of the Mexican painter José Clemente Orozco. Reynoso’s rent in Manhattan doubled in 2014 to $1,250. When her landlord proposed a 50 percent increase again in 2022, she was unable to pay and ratcheted up her organizing campaign against her landlord. “They’re so beautiful,” she said, gazing at the paintings.

For this very reason, Vienna’s limited-profit and nonprofit units were many of the delegates’ favorites. Art and aesthetics matter. We visited a small nonprofit building, a co-op, that was successfully designed and developed by strangers who responded to a newspaper ad. The top floor had an expansive roof deck, a communal kitchen, a playroom and a sauna. “You mean I could be in the sauna when my kids are in the playroom?” said Julie Colon, a Bronx organizer who told me she gave birth alone while in the shelter system. “This is crazy.” Shanti Singh, a tenant-rights activist from the Bay Area with short, asymmetrically cropped hair, lingered in the sunny library with its tall windows and honey wood walls. “I never want to leave,” she said.

The spiral of overvaluation in housing, which makes the housing-haves rich and the have-nots desperately poor, has brought us to a point where only something radical can solve it. The problem with housing in the United States is that it has been locked in as a means of building wealth, and building wealth is irreconcilable with affordability. The housing crisis in the United States is proof. Even in 2017, before the pandemic, around 113 million Americans — some 35 percent of the nation’s population — were living with a serious housing problem, such as physically deficient housing, burdensome costs or no housing at all, notes Alex F. Schwartz, an urban-studies professor at the New School.

Calls for a federal social-housing plan in America might sound far-fetched, but make no mistake: The United States government intervenes heavily in the housing market. It’s just a two-tiered system, as Gail Radford, the historian, argues. There’s generous support for affluent homeowners and deliberately insufficient support for the lowest-income households. In 2017, the United States spent $155 billion on tax breaks to homeowners and investors in rental housing and mortgage-revenue bonds, more than three times the $50 billion spent on affordable housing.

That $50 billion isn’t nothing. In fact, in many U.S. cities, public spending per capita on housing and community-development subsidies is higher than in Vienna. But it seems clear that much of this money is misspent, whether through inefficient private-public partnerships like the low-income-housing tax credit; or through distortionary vouchers; or, most dubiously of all, through subsidizing homeowners, the people who need it least. “If you give everyone demand-side subsidies, like vouchers, and there’s a supply shortage, it’s going to drive up prices,” Chris Herbert, the managing director of Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, told me. It costs the state more, and landlords often wind up pocketing the profits.

Though the Gemeindebauten represented a large initial government outlay, Vienna’s social housing is now self-sustaining. Guess how much of the residents’ salary goes toward the program. One percent. Social housing drives down rents in the private market by as much as 5 percent. Vouchers may appear cheaper in the short term, but directly financing well-regulated public and limited-profit construction is the only way to mitigate speculation and hedge against ever-increasing housing costs. In 2020, New York and California spent $377 and $248 per capita, respectively, in housing development, while Vienna spent just $124 — and approximately half of Vienna’s spending is on low-interest financing that will be repaid and then re-lent.

Social-housing programs have existed in America before, and they exist in America to this day. Local social-housing programs, many of them inspired by Vienna, are underway in Montgomery County, Md. ; Seattle; and California. And they have a long legacy in New York, which built 66,000 affordable apartments and 69,000 limited-profit co-op apartment units from 1955 to 1981 under the Limited-Profit Housing Companies Law, also known as Mitchell-Lama, after the two legislators who introduced it. In combination with public housing, Mitchell-Lama units are a main reason economic diversity remains in the Lower East Side, Williamsburg and Chinatown.

Housing expense has been a staggering burden for so many of us, for so long, that it’s hard to even contemplate what it would mean to have it recede in our minds. When I spoke to Peter Pilz, the politician who took over his grandmother’s unit in Goethehof, I asked him, as I asked every Viennese tenant of social housing, what he did with all the money he saved thanks to his cheap rent. “I haven’t invested a single penny in the stock market,” he told me. “I would consider it an enormous waste of time to sit in front of my computer and study what the stock market is doing. I prefer to use my time writing, editing an online newspaper supporting interesting initiatives and having fun.”

Pilz was staying in Tuscany when we spoke, and he had spent the day bicycling. He stopped in Pienza to admire the small purple cathedral and sample the famous pecorino. Then he cycled on to Montalcino, where he sipped some Brunello, before returning to Bagno Vignoni to go swimming. “That’s my hard life,” he told me. “If people don’t have to struggle all day long to survive — if your life is made safe, at least in social conditions — you can use your energy for much more important things.”

Video at the top from Luca Locatelli

Francesca Mari is a contributing writer for the magazine and an assistant professor of the practice in the literary-arts department at Brown University. She writes about all aspects of housing. Luca Locatelli is a photographer whose work focuses on environmental images and solutions to the climate crisis. He has been working on “The Circular Economy,” an immersive project premiering in September at the Gallerie d’Italia museum of Turin, Italy.

An earlier version of this article misstated the year the euro was introduced in Austria. It was 2002, not 1999.

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If the US is not able to pay all its bills for the first time ever, senior citizens could quickly feel the pain.

Unless President Joe Biden and House Republicans hammer out a deal to address the debt ceiling soon, the Treasury Department may not have enough funds to fully satisfy all of the nation’s obligations as soon as June 1 .

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He has tried to reassure folks that they will receive their full benefits eventually.

Older Americans are more aware of the debt ceiling battle – and the potential delay in payments – this time than they were during the last major standoff in 2011, thanks to the internet, said Mary Johnson, Social Security and Medicare policy analyst for The Senior Citizens League. Many are not only concerned about their benefits, but also that a potential stock market drop triggered by a default could decimate their retirement savings.

“I am very, very concerned about what this will do to our financial industry, as well as to our benefits,” she said.

It is possible that Social Security beneficiaries could be shielded somewhat from the full impact of the US defaulting on its obligations. Though it’s not known exactly how the Treasury Department will handle making payments with the funds it has on hand, the agency may ultimately decide to prioritize Social Security benefits – though likely after it has paid interest and principal on the nation’s debt.

Also, it’s possible the Treasury Department could continue making on-time payments because of the entitlement program’s trust fund, said Shai Akabas, director of economic policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Since the US takes in less revenue than it needs to pay its bills, Treasury must borrow to cover all its obligations. But since the nation hit its $31.4 trillion debt ceiling , it cannot add to its borrowing until Congress addresses the cap.

When it comes to Social Security, Treasury obtains cash to pay benefits by borrowing from the public. But the payments reduce the balance in the trust fund, which consists of Treasury securities, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Because of that reduction in what’s known as “intragovernmental debt,” the payments have little net effect on the total amount of debt subject to the limit.

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