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Top 17 Highest Paid Bloggers
Are you wondering who the highest paid bloggers are?
Top-earning bloggers can make a lot of money! Blogging is a type of business that has an incredibly low start-up cost (as little as $50 a year for web hosting and a domain name) but a very high potential for profit.
There are tons of bloggers earning a full-time income from blogging, myself included. But what about the top-earning bloggers making millions?
Believe it or not, there are quite a few of those too! Below you’ll find some of the highest paid bloggers and how much they earn from blogging.
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Are you wondering how much the highest paid bloggers can make? Read on!
Who Counts as a Blogger?
If you Google “highest paid bloggers” you’ll find articles listing websites like BuzzFeed and Huffington Post as blogs. This is pretty misleading, since these are actually massive content publishing websites with teams of hundreds of writers.
For the purpose of this list of highest paid bloggers, I am only counting individual bloggers, and not huge digital media corporations.
While some of these bloggers may have a small team working for them now, they all started out growing their blogging business on their own.
On this list, you’ll find bloggers in a wide variety of niches, including personal finance, food, travel, online business, lifestyle, and health and fitness
Bloggers Who Share Income Reports
This list is incomplete because I am only compiling data from bloggers who publicly share their income online, which is a small fraction of all bloggers.
Bloggers who share income reports publicly also tend to skew towards certain niches, such as personal finance and online business.
There are countless bloggers in niches like fashion, lifestyle, travel, beauty, food, parenting, and more who are earning six or seven figures annually from their blogs. They’re just not sharing their numbers online!
I have a big list of over 200+ blog income reports you can check out if you’d like to get an idea of how much money other bloggers are making.
But just keep in mind that the majority of full-time bloggers (including those earning six and seven figures per year) are NOT posting about it online, so this list is not exhaustive and represents a small portion of top-earning bloggers.
Who Pays Bloggers?
One last thing before we jump into this list – how are these bloggers paid?
A lot of people don’t fully understand how bloggers make money. The truth is, most bloggers have several income streams as part of their business.
Most bloggers earn money in a variety of different ways, including:
- Displaying ads on their blog
- Affiliate marketing
- Working with brands on sponsored content
- Selling their own products
You can read more here: How Do Bloggers Make Money? Top 5 Ways Explained
Now let’s get into this list of the highest paid bloggers, including how much they earn and how exactly they earn their money blogging.
1. Making Sense of Cents
Michelle from Making Sense of Cents runs one of the most popular personal finance blogs on the Internet. She earns over $1.5 million per year from her blog, with the majority of her income coming from affiliate marketing.
You can read more from Michelle in my interview with her.
She also has a great online course for bloggers called Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing that explains how she earns so much from affiliate marketing.
2. It’s a Lovely Life
Heather and Pete are behind the blog It’s a Lovely Life, which focuses on family travel. They travel the world with their three kids and blog about it.
They earn around $150,000 a month from It’s a Lovely Life, which means they are earning well over a million dollars annually from their blogging business.
3. Just a Girl and Her Blog
Just a Girl and Her Blog is a successful lifestyle blog run by Abby Lawson. She writes about a variety of topics, including organizing and decorating.
And she earns over $40,000 a month from her blog, which works out to close to half a million dollars per year, making her a very high earning blogger as well.
4. Busy Budgeter
Rosemarie Groner from Busy Budgeter is a great example of a blogging success story. She went from being a state trooper, not earning much money and living in debt, to running one of the world’s top personal finance blogs.
She earns over $86,000 a month from her blog, with the majority of her income coming from selling her own products, such as a budgeting workbook, affiliate marketing, and lastly, display ads and sponsored posts.
5. The Savvy Couple
Kelan and Brittany started The Savvy Couple to help other families organize and simplify their finances, pay off debt, and save extra money.
Now they’ve turned their blog into a highly profitable business, earning over $43,000 a month and over half a million dollars per year. Their blog is unique in that they earn most of their income from brand sponsorships.
6. Pinch of Yum
Pinch of Yum is one of the world’s most popular food blogs, and it’s not hard to see why, with all the delicious and easy-to-make recipes they publish.
Lindsay and Bjork, the couple behind the blog, are highly paid bloggers earning over $1 million per year from their blog, with a huge amount coming from ads, followed by sponsored posts and affiliate marketing.
7. Melyssa Griffin
Melyssa Griffin is a business blogger who writes about topics like marketing and online business and creates courses to help online business owners.
She makes over $1.5 million per year from her blog (with single months on her blog bringing in as much as $140,000.) This is mainly from her online course sales, with a smaller percentage coming from affiliate marketing as well.
8. Smart Passive Income
Smart Passive Income is a blog created by Pat Flynn about online business. Pat is a successful affiliate marketer who has earned millions from it.
He earns over $127,000 per month from his blog. While the majority of it comes from affiliate marketing, he also earns money through selling his own products, selling sponsorships for his podcast, and consulting/public speaking.
9. Kara and Nate
Kara and Nate are popular travel bloggers and vloggers who are mainly known for the travel videos they share with their audience on YouTube.
They earn over $600,000 a year from their business ($150,000 quarterly), and this comes from sponsorships on their blog and YouTube channel, affiliate marketing, ads, selling their own products, and running a membership community.
10. Show Me the Yummy
Some other top earning food bloggers are Trevor and Jennifer from Show Me the Yummy. They share yummy recipes on their extremely popular food blog.
And thanks to their blog, they are able to earn $46,000 per month (over half a million annually) from ads, sponsored content, and their own products.
11. Avocadu
Alex and Lauren are the founders of Avocadu, a health and fitness blog for women. They were able to grow to six figures within the first year. They also run Create and Go, a website with resources for other bloggers.
Between their two blogs, they bring in over $67,000 per month, with income evenly split between their health and fitness blog and their blogging blog.
12. The Shabby Creek Cottage
Gina started The Shabby Creek Cottage as a place to share recipes, DIY projects, crafts, holiday ideas, and decorating ideas, and now she has grown it into a highly profitable business earning multiple six figures per year.
Her blog generates $25,000 a month in income that is pretty evenly split between ads, affiliate marketing, and working with brands on sponsored content.
13. Chasing Foxes
Chasing Foxes is a lifestyle blog started by Grace and Silas, a couple who were able to quit their low-paying jobs and travel the world thanks to blogging.
They blog about a very wide variety of topics on their blog, including lifestyle, money, style and beauty, and travel. These two bring in nearly $20,000 a month, primarily from ads as well as affiliate marketing on their blog.
14. Dollar Sprout
Jeff and Ben run the extremely successful personal finance blog Dollar Sprout, from which they earn $61,000 a month (over $700,000 per year.)
Their earnings come almost exclusively from affiliate marketing on their blog, with a small amount coming from ads and selling digital products.
15. Ryan Robinson
Ryan Robinson is a top-earning blogger in the online business niche. In fact, he is able to earn over half a million per year ($43,000 in a month) from blogging.
He mainly makes money from affiliate marketing for web hosting and business software, along with selling his own online course for bloggers.
16. Local Adventurer
Some top-earning travel bloggers on this list are Esther and Jacob from Local Adventure. They make over $23,000 per month from their travel blog.
Their multiple six figure blogging income is made possible through affiliate marketing, ads, and working with brands on sponsored content.
17. Start a Mom Blog
Suzi Whitford is the founder of a blog that, as the name suggests, helps other moms to start their own successful blogs! She is a former engineer turned mom blogger turned blogging educator, who mainly earns money through selling her own products, such as online courses for bloggers.
You can learn more about Suzi in my interview with her.
She makes close to $25,000 a month on her blog from selling her online courses for bloggers, as well as through affiliate marketing on her blog.
Highest Paid Bloggers Income
These are some of the highest paid bloggers and how much they earn!
If you are interested in starting your own blog and learning how to make money blogging, be sure to sign up for my free Blogging Bootcamp course.
I started blogging as a college student just to earn some extra money on the side, and within just a few months, I was earning an extra $1,000 a month.
Now, I have turned blogging into my full-time career!
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