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What writers make
Typical
$76,910
Entry writing job
$44,310
Senior or successful
$139,870
The national median is $76,910 a year, and the bottom tenth start near $44,310. Read that carefully: the federal survey covers writers and authors as one group, so it mostly counts salaried people writing marketing copy, scripts and web content. Book authors are usually self-employed and are largely not in this number.