Finding writing jobs on the internet is a bizarrely hard job.
Know why?
Because writers are all gathered at the same place, like barbarians, fighting for a small piece of pie.
We all know to get writing gigs on Upwork, Fiverr, and Freelancer.com. But those are not the only places you can get paid to write.
I did a little research to uncover some unpopular websites, magazines, and journals that actually pay writers to write. Because truly, you don’t have to roast yourself to death finding writing gigs.
It’s a massive list. Two hundred and fifty plus. Go through it. If any of them appeal to you, check them out.
Ready?
250+ Websites, Magazines, Blogs, and Journals that Pay Writers to Write
A Fine Parent pays $100 per article
A List Apart pays $200 per article
AARP Magazine pays $1 per word
About.com pays $150 per article
Adventure Cyclist pays $0.40-$1 per word
AFAR pays $1 per word
Alaska Beyond Magazine pays $150-$700 per article
All Freelance Writing pays $75-$100 per post
AMC Outdoors Magazine pays $0.50-$0.75 per word
American Falconry pays $100 per article
American Forests pays $200-$1,000 per article
American School Board Journal pays $400-$700 per article
American Speech pays $200 per article
AnewAmerica pays $50 per article
Animal Wellness Magazine pays $50-$400 per article
Architectural Lighting Magazine pays $150-$300 per article
Atlas Obscura pays $0.25 per word
Backstage pays $0.30 per word
Backpacker Magazine pays $0.40-$1.00 per word
Beer Advocate Magazine pays $0.03 per word
Better Homes & Gardens pays $1.00 per word
Big Grey Horse Media pays $125 per article
BioScience pays $0.35 per word
Birds & Blooms Magazine pays $400 per article
Black Warrior Review pays $75 per poem and $200 per story
Blasting News pays $3.50 per 1,000 views
Bitch Magazine pays $200 per feature article
BlogMutt pays $8-$72 per post
Blue Mountain Arts pays $300 per poem
Boston Globe Magazine pays $1.50 per word
Boys’ Life Magazine pays $0.25 per word
Brain, Child Magazine pays $300 per article
Brevity Magazine pays $45 per essay
Budget Travel pays $0.50 per word
Business Insider pays $250 per article
Bustle pays $100 per article
Canadian Living pays $0.40 per word
Carve Magazine pays $25-$500 per short story
Catster pays $100-$200 per article
Ceramics Monthly pays $0.30 per word
Chicken Soup for the Soul pays $200 per story or poem
Christian Science Monitor pays $200-$225 per article
Cincinnati Magazine pays $0.25 per word
Civil Eats pays $300 per article
Clean Eating Magazine pays $0.40 per word
Coastal Living pays $1.00 per word
CollegeHumor pays $35 per article
Colorado Life Magazine pays $0.20 per word
Columbia Journal pays $100 per prose piece and $25 per poem
Common Ground Magazine pays $0.20 per word
Condé Nast Traveler pays $1.00 per word
Consumer Reports pays $1.00 per word
Cosmopolitan pays $1.00 per word
Country Magazine pays $250 per article
Country Living pays $1.00 per word
Craftsmanship Magazine pays $1.00 per word
Crazyhorse pays $20-$200 per poem and $200-$500 per prose piece
Cricket Magazine pays $0.25 per word
Cracked pays $50-$200 per article
Dame Magazine pays $200 per feature article
Dance Magazine pays $0.35 per word
DapperQ pays $50-$200 per article
Deadspin pays $0.25 per word
Delta Sky Magazine pays $1.00 per word
Departures Magazine pays $1.00 per word
DesertUSA pays $50 per article
Discover Magazine pays $0.50 per word
DIY Garden pays $50 per article
Dotdash (formerly About.com) pays $150-$600 per article
Dwell Magazine pays $0.80 per word
EatingWell Magazine pays $1 per word
Edible Seattle pays $50-$500 per article
E-International Relations pays $50-$100 per article
Electric Literature pays $100 per essay
Elle pays $0.10-$2 per word
Entrepreneur pays $0.50-$2 per word
Escapees Magazine pays $150 per article
Esquire pays $0.25 per word
Eureka Street pays $200 per article
Every Day Fiction pays $0.03 per word
Extra Crispy pays $0.25 per word
Family Fun Magazine pays $1.25 per word
Family Handyman pays $0.10 per word
Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine pays $0.08 per word
Fast Company pays $1.50-$2 per word
Fence Magazine pays $300 per poem
Field & Stream pays $0.25 per word
Fine Gardening Magazine pays $0.25 per word
Food52 pays $150 per article
Forbes pays $0.50-$2 per word
Foreign Policy pays $0.50 per word
Foundation for Economic Education pays $75 per article
FreelanceMom pays $75-$100 per article
FreshBooks pays $200 per article
Friends Journal pays $50 per page
Fusion pays $0.30-$0.50 per word
Gamasutra pays $50-$500 per article
Game Informer Magazine pays $0.15-$0.25 per word
Garden Design Magazine pays $600 per article
Glimmer Train pays $700-$3,000 per story
Global Comment pays $50 per article
Good Housekeeping pays $2 per word
Good Old Days Magazine pays $15-$75 per story
Great Escape Publishing pays $50-$200 per article
Green Child Magazine pays $50-$200 per article
Green Prophet pays $50 per article
Grist pays $50 per article
Guideposts pays $0.45-$0.65 per word
Harper’s Magazine pays $0.50-$1.50 per word
Healthline pays $0.40-$0.70 per word
Hemispheres Magazine pays $0.50 per word
High Country News pays $0.50 per word
Home Business Magazine pays $50-$100 per article
Home Improvement pays $50 per article
Hooked to Books pays $50-$200 per article
Horse Network pays $50-$100 per article
Horsetalk pays $50 per article
HowStuffWorks pays $0.10 per word
Huck Magazine pays $0.10 per word
iWorkwell pays $200 per article
JSTOR Daily pays $100 per article
Knitty pays $75-$200 per article
KnowledgeNuts pays $10 per article
LadyQs pays $150 per article
Land&People pays $300-$1,200 per article
Laptop Mag pays $0.30 per word
LendingTree pays $100-$250 per article
Lighthouse pays $0.10 per word
List25 pays $50 per article
Listverse pays $100 per listicle
Literary Mama pays $75 per article
LitReactor pays $50-$200 per article
LiveCareer pays $50 per article
Longreads pays $500 per article
Make a Living Writing pays $75-$150 per article
MakeUseOf pays $50 per article
Matador Network pays $40-$60 per article
Mental Floss pays $0.25 per word
MetroParent pays $35-$350 per article
Midwest Living Magazine pays $0.50 per word
Military History Magazine pays $0.30-$0.40 per word
Military Spouse Magazine pays $200 per article
Model Railroad Hobbyist Magazine pays $50-$300 per article
Modern Farmer pays $150 per article
MotorHome Magazine pays $900-$1,200 per article
Narrative Magazine pays $150-$350 per story
National Geographic Traveler pays $1 per word
National Parks Magazine pays $0.30 per word
Natural History Magazine pays $1,500-$2,500 per article
New Scientist pays $0.30 per word
New York Times Modern Love column pays $300 per essay
New York Times Opinion section pays $0.50 per word
Newsweek pays $0.40 per word
Nutri Inspector pays $30-$50 per article
O, The Oprah Magazine pays $2 per word
Observer pays $0.40 per word
Odyssey pays $0.10-$0.50 per word
Oyster pays $150 per article
Pacific Standard pays $0.75 per word
Paste Magazine pays $50 per article
PayScale pays $50-$100 per article
Pentimento Magazine pays $100 per article
People Magazine pays $1.50 per word
Phoenix New Times pays $0.25 per word
Pockets Magazine pays $0.25 per word
Points in Case pays $60 per article
Polygon pays $0.25-$0.50 per word
Popular Mechanics pays $0.40 per word
Popular Science pays $0.25 per word
Prevention Magazine pays $1-$2 per word
PsychCentral pays $50 per article
Quartz pays $0.25-$1.50 per word
Reader’s Digest pays $0.50 per word
Redbook Magazine pays $2 per word
Refinery29 pays $0.26 per word
Remedy Health Media pays $0.75-$1.00 per word
Road and Track pays $1 per word
Rolling Stone pays $0.25 per word
Runner’s World pays $1 per word
Salon pays $0.15-$0.40 per word
Saveur pays $0.75 per word
Scary Mommy pays $100 per article
Science Magazine pays $0.25 per word
Scientific American pays $1 per word
Screen Rant pays $50 per article
Seattle Magazine pays $0.45 per word
Self Magazine pays $0.50 per word
Serious Eats pays $0.50 per word
SheKnows Media pays $100 per article
Sierra Magazine pays $1 per word
Simple-Talk pays $200-$400 per article
SitePoint pays $100-$300 per article
Sky & Telescope pays $0.60-$1.00 per word
Smithsonian Magazine pays $0.50 per word
Southern Living Magazine pays $0.60 per word
Sports Illustrated pays $0.50 per word
Substance pays $200 per essay
Successful Farming pays $0.20 per word
Sunset Magazine pays $1 per word
Surfer Magazine pays $0.50 per word
Tablet Magazine pays $0.25 per word
Taste of Home pays $0.03 per word
Techopedia pays $50 per article
TechRepublic pays $0.75 per word
Teen Vogue pays $0.30 per word
The American Conservative pays $50-$200 per article
The Atlantic pays $0.50-$2.00 per word
The Baffler pays $800-$1,200 per article
The Bold Italic pays $50-$200 per article
The Christian Science Monitor pays $200 per article
The Chronicle of Higher Education pays $0.50 per word
The Daily Beast pays $250-$400 per article
The Daily Dot pays $0.35 per word
The Diplomat pays $150 per article
The Economist pays $0.60 per word
The Freelancer by Contently pays $250 per article
The Guardian pays $0.42-$1.06 per word
The Hairpin pays $50 per article
The Hoth pays $200-$500 per article
The Humanist pays $100 per article
The Independent pays $0.15 per word
The Intercept pays $0.50 per word
The Ken pays $0.10 per word
The Kitchn pays $25-$150 per article
The Los Angeles Review of Books pays $100 per article
The Morning News pays $0.25 per word
The New Republic pays $0.50 per word
The New Yorker pays $1 per word
The Outline pays $0.25 per word
The Penny Hoarder pays $0.03-$0.07 per word
The Rumpus pays $50 per article
The Sun Magazine pays $300-$2,000 per essay
The Tempest pays $50 per article
The Verge pays $0.40-$0.75 per word
The Walrus pays $0.50 per word
The Washington Post pays $0.50-$2.00 per word
The Week pays $0.20 per word
The Wirecutter pays $0.50 per word
Thrillist pays $0.50 per word
TODAY.com pays $150 per article
TopTenz pays $50 per listicle
Travel + Leisure pays $1 per word
TreeHugger pays $0.25 per word
Tripsavvy pays $0.30 per word
True West Magazine pays $0.20 per word
U.S. Catholic Magazine pays $0.20 per word
U.S. News & World Report pays $0.50 per word
Upworthy pays $0.23 per word
USA Today College pays $0.20 per word
Vanity Fair pays $1 per word
Vice pays $0.25-$2.00 per word
VinePair pays $0.10-$0.50 per word
Vox pays $0.25-$1.50 per word
Wanderlust pays £220 per 1,000 words
War History Online pays $50 per article
Wealthsimple Magazine pays $0.50 per word
Well Kept Wallet pays $0.10 per word
Wired pays $0.50 per word
Wise Bread pays $0.10 per word
Women’s Health pays $1 per word
Women’s Running pays $1 per word
Working Mother pays $0.25 per word
World Hum pays $0.50 per word
World Nomads pays $0.50 per word
Yahoo! Finance pays $0.10-$0.35 per word
Yes! Magazine pays $0.50 per word
Yoga Journal pays $0.30 per word
YourTango pays $50 per article
Youth Today pays $0.15 per word
Zócalo Public Square pays $0.50 per word
No need to say thank you. Get yourself up and start writing.