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Does It Pay to Be a Writer? Yes, But Not Well For Most

Small Business Labs

The Authors Guild’s 2018 Author Income Survey collected pay data from over 5,000 published book authors. They found that the median pay for full-time book authors was $20,300 in 2017, and that number decreased to $6,080 when part-time writers were included.    The second survey comes from The Make a Living Writing blog.

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