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June 6, 2024
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How much do you earn per month at Adobe Stock?

  • June 6, 2024
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I understand that few people will want to share information.

 

But I would like to know the experience of the sellers whos wanna share:

1) How long have you been on the stock

2) How many photos do you have (and what topic)

3) How much do you earn in dollars per month?

 

I see that all popular authors have about 10,000 images. How much do they earn?

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Participant
January 23, 2025

Adobe only shows first 100 pages means first 10000 assets catogrized by new sales. Contributors could have upto 1 million assets. And many contributors may have more limits and they might have 800k to 1M assets.

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 6, 2024

Q:  How much do Stock Contributors earn per month? 

A:  Not enough to live on.  😚

 

At most, Stock is a nice opportunity to make a small second income on the side. It's not a replacement for a full-time job.

 

Contributors make what they make based on their portfolio's diversity, customer appeal, seasonal trends and the type of license the customer purchases -- Standard, Extended, Enhanced or Editorial Use Only.

https://stock.adobe.com/license-terms

 

Sales vary from month-to-month and year-to-year.  So nothing is etched in stone.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Ricky336
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 7, 2024
quote

Q:  How much do Stock Contributors earn per month? 

A:  Not enough to live on.  😚

 

At most, Stock is a nice opportunity to make a small second income on the side. It's not a replacement for a full-time job.

 

By @Nancy OShea

 

Not enough to live on - this is my experience, and then you have the country's tax to consider. 

In the near future, AI art will replace this industry.

MliO111Author
Inspiring
June 8, 2024

Don't believe everything you see on the Internet.  Nobody is actually getting rich off AI except the YouTube influencers who make these ridiculous claims. 

 

If you want to pursue AI art as a career, fine.  But have a backup plan just in case.

 

 


Back plan? 🙂 I'm not a student 🙂 I have good career already and also I have passion in AI. Also I use AI images in many places, they have already been seen by more than 250,000 people in few countries. There is a demand for this and it is huge. Adobe Stock one more opportunity. Don't confuse the fantasy foxes that are uploaded by the thousands with the real work of an AI photographer. This is already making money for lots of people and its just a start. 

Legend
June 6, 2024

How much do you earn per month at Adobe Stock?

MliO111Author
Inspiring
June 7, 2024

I just started 3 months ago. I have a lot of material but moderator's time is very long now, it was 20 days, now 65 days. I made 35 usd for a couple of months when my portoflio was very very small (I dont remember how much, 500 pieces I think). Now its much bigger (since last days of May 2024), will see!

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 7, 2024
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I just started 3 months ago. (...) I made 35 usd for a couple of months when my portoflio was very very small


By @MliO111

3 months and a couple of months does not go together. So you are a contributor for 3 months now, and the first 2 months you made $35. That's OK.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 6, 2024

Few people share their sales statistics. We have no way of knowing how much those that have large portfolios >10,000 images earn. 

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
MliO111Author
Inspiring
June 6, 2024

Popular authors have about 10,000 images. There were sales of more than 1,000,000 in six months (some profiles). So that's about $500,000 in six months, right? I'm talking about this page - https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/ru/insights/best/contributors

Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 6, 2024

I don't know how you came up with that sales figure based on the Insights page. 

Jill C., Forum Volunteer