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What copywriters make
Median for the group
$76,910
Bottom tenth
$44,310
Top tenth
$139,870
The national median is $76,910 a year, the bottom tenth earn $44,310 or less and the top tenth $139,870 or more (2025 federal wage survey). The survey counts Writers and Authors as one occupation, so novelists, technical writers and advertising copywriters all sit in this figure.