![]() ![]() Heck, I even put a kid through college in the USA on my travel writing income-something that I would have thought was impossible when I first started down this path in the 1990s. We can buy some nice clothes, contribute to a retirement fund, and yes, buy a house. We can live in six countries over twelve months and still have lots of cash left over at the end of the year, even if we go live in Europe half that time. After all, "remote workers" were still an oddity outside the world of online creatives like us.Īs I finish up the third edition of Travel Writing 2.0 though, we've found that we can have the good life and enjoy a good life too. That's something the office workers did, a trade-off for their cubicle life. You weren't going to earn enough to save for retirement or buy a house though. Your social media feeds made all your old friends jealous. ![]() You went where you wanted, did what you wanted, and made enough to pay the bills. Through a bit of hustle and creative lifestyle design, it wasn't all that hard to get to a point where you could travel around the world, sometimes for free thanks to press trips and hosting. ![]() Plus the job was a whole lot more fun than the alternatives. Not Wall Street money maybe, but respectable. Back when I published the first edition of Travel Writing 2.0 back in 2010, there was starting to be a little chatter about how we might soon spot this mythical beast called the "six-figure travel blogger." Some people had managed to build up enough of a following and get enough monetized traffic that they were earning what a corporate suit near the top of the org chart could pull in. Then when the internet removed all the gatekeepers and the permission publishing model, the number of people who could at least support themselves started to climb each year. There just weren't enough ways to make steady earnings unless you were stringing together a lot of big assignments from major publications month after month. Can you really make good money as a travel blogger or freelance writer? How much money can travel writers make in a year?īack when I started out writing for magazines in the pre-internet age, the answers were "Usually not" and "Not much." About the only people I ran into who were full-time travel writers making enough to live comfortably-much less support a family-were staff editors and guidebook authors. ![]()
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