Calculating Triond Earnings: Can It be a Work-at-Home Job?
Some of us register accounts on Triond to make friends, some of us to be able to express ourselves through our writing. However, one of the key advantages of being on Triond is with regards to getting paid for submitting your own content.
Everyone’s always looking for the perfect job. There’s constant advertising on television regarding work-at-home opportunities, whether it’s running your own business, taking surveys, being a mystery shopper, or getting paid through blogs and other writing sites.
Whether you’re submitting your articles to Associated Content, Constant Content, Bukisa, Helium, Triond, or any other paid-to-write website, you’re probably doing so because of your love of writing. However, in the end, time is money. Some of us write articles in our spare time; some of us as a part-time job. I’m currently writing articles full-time, though I’m not earning nearly as much money as I would be if I had a part-time or full-time job. But the question we’re all pondering in our minds is whether or not sites such as Triond can replace our current full-time jobs.
To answer this question, we need to determine some interesting calculations.
Regular Job Minimum Wage
- $10.00 an hour
- 8 hours of work per day
- $80.00 a day
- 5 days of work per week
- $400.00 a week
- 4 weeks of work per month
- $1,600.00 a month
- 12 months of work per year
- $19,200.00 a year
Based on these calculations, we see that before taxes and other deductions, the average person makes almost $20,000 a year. After taxes and deductions, it comes closer to $15,000 a year.
Now, fortunately for us writers, we don’t get taxed on the earnings we make through online writing sites, so we keep 100% of our income. As a result of these calculations, we would have to be making at least $15,000 a year to compensate for a full-time job.
I don’t think anyone on Triond has yet to make anywhere close to $15,000 a year. The average person on online writing sites only makes a couple of dollars a month, so what would it take to duplicate the $15,000 income earned through a full-time job? Here are some interesting calculations.
Estimated Average Article Payout
- $1.00 per 1,000 views
- $0.10 per 100 views
- $0.01 per 10 views
Theoretically, an article can have a payout (eCPM) of anywhere from $0.50 per 1,000 views to $10.00 per 1,000 views, but I personally guess that the average article income is about $1.00 per 1,000 views. Based on my “$1.00 per 1,000 views” assumption, we can also assume that an article can make $0.10 per 100 views and $0.01 per 10 views.
So based upon these estimates, you should check your Triond content page and see how much money each of your articles is generating on a month-to-month basis. If one of your articles has, for example, close to 100 views, but has only made about $0.06, then you’re making less than the estimated average amount of income. If, on the other hand, it has made $0.15, then you’re making more than the estimated average.
Estimated Calculations Based on Average eCPM Payout
- 1 of your articles gets 10 views = $0.01 per month
- 10 of your articles get 10 views each = $0.10 per month
- 100 of your articles get 10 views each = $1.00 per month
- 1,000 of your articles get 10 views each = $10.00 per month
- 10,000 of your articles get 10 views each = $100.00 per month
Interesting, isn’t it? The above theoretical calculations are based upon each of your articles only getting 1 cent per month, which is the equivalent of getting 10 views. Of course, depending on the eCPM, it could only take 5 views to get 1 cent, or it could take 20 views to get 1 cent. But once again, we’re basing this on assumptions.
- 1 of your articles gets 100 views = $0.10 per month
- 10 of your articles get 100 views each = $1.00 per month
- 100 of your articles get 100 views each = $10.00 per month
- 1,000 of your articles get 100 views each = $100.00 per month
- 10,000 of your articles get 100 views each = $1,000.00 per month
I don’t know about you, but getting $1,000 of tax-free money each month sits alright with me. However, PayPal has a $650 monthly receiving limit, so you’d have to upgrade to their Premier/Business account and then get charged “1.9% to 2.9% of the payment + 30 cents” to receive Triond’s payment. To give you an example, if Triond paid you $1,000, PayPal would take off anywhere between $19.30 and $29.30 to keep for themselves. Personally, if I was making those kinds of earnings, I would instead have Triond send me a check in the mail, costing me only $3.00 instead of $29.30.
Estimated Calculations Based on High eCPM Payout
The previous two types of calculations were based upon an estimated payout of $1.00 per 1,000 views. Double the estimated eCPM and you double the payout.
- 1 of your articles gets 10 views = $0.02 per month
- 10 of your articles get 10 views each = $0.20 per month
- 100 of your articles get 10 views each = $2.00 per month
- 1,000 of your articles get 10 views each = $20.00 per month
- 10,000 of your articles get 10 views each = $200.00 per month
And here are the estimated calculations based upon 100 views per article:
- 1 of your articles gets 100 views = $0.20 per month
- 10 of your articles get 100 views each = $2.00 per month
- 100 of your articles get 100 views each = $20.00 per month
- 1,000 of your articles get 100 views each = $200.00 per month
- 10,000 of your articles get 100 views each = $2,000.00 per month
Estimated Calculations Based on Maximum eCPM Payout
Here are some estimated calculations based upon a “$10.00 per 1,000 views” article payout range:
- 1 of your articles gets 10 views = $0.10 per month
- 10 of your articles get 10 views each = $1.00 per month
- 100 of your articles get 10 views each = $10.00 per month
- 1,000 of your articles get 10 views each = $100.00 per month
- 10,000 of your articles get 10 views each = $1,000.00 per month
And here are the estimated calculations based upon 100 views per article for the same payout:
- 1 of your articles gets 100 views = $1.00 per month
- 10 of your articles get 100 views each = $10.00 per month
- 100 of your articles get 100 views each = $100.00 per month
- 1,000 of your articles get 100 views each = $1,000.00 per month
- 10,000 of your articles get 100 views each = $10,000.00 per month
These theoretical calculations are quite intriguing, aren’t they?
Of all the estimated calculations I made above, the ones that apply to the majority of us include:
- 100 of your articles get 10 views each = $1.00 per month
- 100 of your articles get 100 views each = $10.00 per month
- 1,000 of your articles get 10 views each = $10.00 per month (same payout as above point)
- 1,000 of your articles get 100 views each = $100.00 per month
Once a writer has 100 articles in their account, he/she should theoretically be making at least $1.00 a month. And once a writer has 1,000 articles in their account, he/she should theoretically be making at least $10.00 a month.
And if you have less than 100 articles in your account, it’s hard to make any kind of substantial income on any online writing website. Also, remember that certain categories are more popular than others. So if you write 100 articles on poetry and creative writing, you may or may not make as much money as you would by writing 100 articles on internet-related topics and electronics.
Estimated Time Frame to Reach 10,000 Articles
There’s one last calculation I made that you might find useful. If you’re seriously aiming for that magical 10,000 article mark to start making several hundreds of dollars per month, you’re probably wondering how long it would take to create that many articles. Well, it’ll take a while, to say the least…
- 1 article per day = 365 per year = 10,220 articles after 28 years
- 3 articles per day = 1,095 per year = 10,950 articles after 10 years
- 5 articles per day = 1,825 per year = 10,950 articles after 6 years
- 10 articles per day = 3,650 per year = 10,950 articles after 3 years
So, theoretically, if you have the time to write 10 articles per day, after 3 years, it’s estimated that you’ll be making close to $1,000 a month.
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January 22nd, 2009 at 7:21 am
Good job, Dialga, but kind of disappointing
Another observation: note that in Triond there are writer from all over the world… the minimun wage varies from one place to another.
January 22nd, 2009 at 7:56 am
thanks for the information
January 22nd, 2009 at 9:51 am
And you did not cite that some articles get a 1000, or several thousand, views. I have a few articles with tens of thousands of views and while that does not mean that I’m making a living wage doing this hobby, it does very much skew the math (but in a very delightful way.)
-thestickman
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:39 am
Hey, great article. Depressing but true.
January 22nd, 2009 at 11:51 am
Informative , thank you. I’m no where near close making real money, but I like Triond so I’ll stick.
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Wow… this is one of the best, easy to follow breakdown theories for how much can be earned at the very minimum from Triond. I wholeheartedly believe that you can and will make limitless income from this site.
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:33 pm
I am worn out reading this! Wow what a lot of work you have put into it.
Good info, good work.
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:56 pm
nice article..ty
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:28 pm
This sure offers an interesting point of view!
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:44 pm
god your good nice job.
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:51 pm
I’m Glad you worked it out! I had a go just a day or so ago and didn’t want to admit I wouldn’t even cover the cost of milk1. Loads of good stuff.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Not really, I guess I got lucky on a couple of my last articles…so I have a little over 100 articles and I am at $90 so far for this month…I think a lot of it is because of my great friends who have stumbled my work, so I joined up with them and am seeing an increase even in some of my older and quite dead articles.
January 23rd, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Well if you get there as I have you’ll find that once you make over $600 you do indeed have to pay taxes on your online writing income and send Triond or any other writing site a tax form first if you live in the USA.
You are underestimating the pay a bit also. Based upon my experience you will earn at least $2.00 per 1,000 views. Generally more than that but that’s a safe minimum to use.
Very interesting article though and I bet we all have tried these calculations in our heads.
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm
This is a really interesting article and I enjoyed reading it very much! I hope that I will be able to make a fair amount from this site in the end, I know that I will have to work hard to do it, but I am a very determined person!
February 3rd, 2009 at 5:12 pm
I like they way you analyze the earnings. I think that if you have about 1000 articles it’s really impossible to get only 10 views per article because you are using the big-numbers law. The more you write, the more views you get (because more people will see them).
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
February 3rd, 2009 at 5:51 pm
good article!
February 4th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Now why didn’t I think of that? heee! You have certainly put things in perspective here…i gotta go, I have 10 articles to write today
February 13th, 2009 at 2:37 am
Dialga.., I am impressed by your well-researched and clear sequence of events presentation of the earnings supported by figures. Maybe, it will take me five years draining my mind filling a blank page all day to accomplish the peak of your assumptions. We just hope that along the way, these big guys of the web will be consistent and do not change their rules in mid-stream at their own pleasure. Mutual trust on the value for value relationship is what we need to keep us going. Thanks a lot!.
February 19th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Ooh, nice work. Too much maths for this time of night though XD
It’d be nice to think we could all earn a living from Triond… but I’d be happy enough with a few dollars to pay for my browser gaming addictions.
Just thought I’d add something I’ve noticed. I only have a few articles so far, but the ones that are two pages long are earning double what the single pagers are. As I write it now, this seems pretty obvious *rolls eyes* but anyway… I get 1c for every 7 views on single page articles (’cept the St Valentine’s Day one, which is acting like a two pager) but 2c per 7 on my two page articles.
So, I’d say that article length MIGHT have something to do with earnings…
February 19th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Cool calculations.. I used to do like these back in 2007 and quit writing for Triond because of other better things to do.
Now I started writing again not because I forgot these calculations, but I had learned some other important things that make earn hundreds of dollars a month with only a maximum of 500 aritcles.
Moreover, I have noticed that people who keep writing articles on helping other writers, on topics related to writing, improving page views, etc. in fact do not test any of their theories but just write yet another article of their creativity that in fact need not have any practical value. I read many such articles and wasted my time. But also concluded that these people never really take up the work seriously but just follow mental instincts that propel them to give advice to others even when it is not yet tested.
February 20th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Thanks for info very useful. cool that your devoting so much time to writing.
February 25th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Interesting infomation. It looks like it’ll be a while before I can afford to give up my job!
February 26th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I think there is a danger of inundating the forum with your articles to reach the magical 1000 article mark. People only have so much time to view your articles so they are not going to read each one. I think its better to give a few days between a set of submissions so that it gives time to your friends to view it properly…
March 11th, 2009 at 10:12 am
“we don’t get taxed on the earnings we make through online writing sites,”
You absolutely DO! You legally have to pay taxes on all your income!
March 12th, 2009 at 12:42 am
Regarding your comment Melanie, I hate to say it, but you’re wrong. When Triond pays us our monthly balances, there are no deductions due to taxes. What we earn on Triond is paid to us in full. That’s why many of us are here.
Things are different, for example, if you’re an eBay power seller, though. But as far as online writing sites such as Triond are concerned, there are no taxes involved.
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:45 am
The pay of $1 per thousand views is very low. From my experience, I get from $2 to $3.5 for a thousand views, at least on the average. We also earn approximately $25-$30 for 100 articles. For some, they earn more. I guess it depends also on what you write about.
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:56 pm
This seems to be a well thought out article. I was doing some calculating myself but your calculations seem reasonable. Well, at this time I have about 50 articles on Triond. My goal is 1,000. I have 950 to go.
August 12th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
I have about 50 articles on triond and i am alread making 20 dollars per month, more then your estimated 1000 articles.
September 19th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
I would like to note that if you are a US Citizen and you’re making anything on Triond, you should be reporting this income.
Legally, you can’t receive any of the money for services provided without paying taxes. It is considered income. Be sure that if you’re making a great amount of money, that you do file it on your tax return, while you may not think it’s necessary now. The IRS tends to be behind, which is why we’re able to work back three years to correct our individual tax returns; so they will probably not catch you trying to evade taxes until about two years.
This would end up have you pay the amount you should have paid in taxes, the interest over the period between you filing the taxes and the mistake is caught, and the penalty on the sum of the two referenced before.
September 19th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Also, I’d like to note that with only one article at the moment, I’m averaging $1.56 eCPM.
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:30 am
I have 4 articles puplished, my best with 43 views (i am new, signed up yesterday), however, i have no cash yet.
Is it becuase I need more views or becuase It needs to update or something.
September 25th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Problem has been fixed, I contacted Triond, I now have 180 views with 0.33 revenue.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Good job; I have a question:
How to calculate how many will I earn this year (oct09>oct10) if I make 2 articles per day?
I worked out hard calculations and I got this: if I write 8 articles per week, I earn 168$ in this year. What would this mean?
October 17th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Fantastic article! If only I could churn out 10,000 articles in a short timescale!!!
October 17th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Um – the tax information is wrong. Might want to correct that before the IRS starts looking into ALL of our earnings.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Interesting article. Is minimum wage really $10hour in your state?
November 30th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
wow, good read
December 13th, 2009 at 4:01 am
Wow great article thanks you have just made want to write some articles, thanks agian good job
December 13th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Wow, I love this article. It’s a depressing and inspirational at the same time if that’s possible…
January 5th, 2010 at 10:23 am
now thats impressively depressing….
February 6th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
3 years to make 1000 dollars per month? well i’d rather post 30 articles per day to make that in an year! 1000$ is a lot!
February 19th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
If you are a very talented writer and can come up with good ideas, you could actually post updwards to 50 short articles a day, if you had the time. I see some people already posting 10-15 articles a day, and they are around 2-3 pages long, so it is possible. My personal best, however, is only 5 in one day.
March 13th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
Me and my friend have found out a way that you can make atleast $2600 a month
March 15th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
hmm
April 16th, 2010 at 1:14 am
im depressed i haven’t made my first cent yet
April 30th, 2010 at 10:47 am
A good article, but yeah, the tax information is flawed. Over a certain amount you need to declare what you’ve made or face some rough waters.
I’m also not sure about the $650 receiving limit on PayPal. I’ve received much more than that in a single month with nothing more than a personal account. Maybe I’m just lucky.
June 8th, 2010 at 9:47 am
this article wakes me up and start to think of what should be my next topic. tnx
July 21st, 2010 at 8:24 am
wow all that math made my head spin
September 12th, 2010 at 9:02 am
Thank you for the breakdown. I haven’t checked out Triond yet but just wrote 11 articles for Bukisa in the past three days and have been pretty disappointed with my $0.06 so far. After reading your calculations, I can see that perhaps I shouldn’t be expecting to earn more than I have.
September 14th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
A Nice Calculation. I am still thinking what my next topic would be.
November 15th, 2010 at 1:11 am
Great article, however, as far as “tax-free”, I must not live on the same planet that you live on. I’m not quite sure if Uncle Sam would agree with you there. Any money I make online, I claim at the end of the year, and pay tax on it. Isn’t that what we’re suppose to be doing?
November 22nd, 2010 at 12:19 am
@LoveLights: I’m not sure what you mean by that. I get paid by Triond via PayPal and that’s it. I don’t have to pay any taxes at all, and I certainly don’t tell anyone how much I’m making through Triond’s articles.
November 27th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
I read through the entire article, and found it actually interesting based upon your calculations on how much a person can make through Triond.
I wonder if this could be a decent side income for my family, instead of just making a few dollars every month.
So let’s get typing
January 2nd, 2011 at 9:51 am
Great article thanks I needed this information
January 8th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
What does it mean if o make 32 articles a day on average and they get. Over 40 views a day and I make around 5 k a month how much will I make in a year
March 27th, 2011 at 5:28 pm
nice work thankx for sharing .. well
im writing 15 or 20 articles a day..
March 27th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
nice article i have write 15 or 20 articles just a day .. so how much i will earn ..!
August 3rd, 2011 at 9:12 pm
Ten thousand articles! Really? I mean really?
October 22nd, 2011 at 7:51 am
Good information, It’s look great
November 5th, 2011 at 10:10 pm
Good logical flow.
January 23rd, 2012 at 1:37 am
good info.
March 20th, 2012 at 8:19 am
Interesting calculations. Im not so good at this stuff, but i uunderstood your article, its simple and well written.
But even if a writer can publish ten articles a day, after three years, fresh content would have taken its place. Info may even be outdated, and wouldn’t search engines rank it much lower? ofcourse there may be exceptions, but still? that’s my question, would appreciate an answer:)
March 20th, 2012 at 8:20 am
Interesting calculations. Im not so good at this stuff, but i uunderstood your article, its simple and well written.
But even if a writer can publish ten articles a day, after three years, fresh content would have taken its place. Info may even be outdated, and wouldn’t search engines rank it much lower? ofcourse there may be exceptions, but still? that’s my question. Would appreciate an answer:)