Top Payed Authors on Steem!

Who are the best payed authors on Steem?

Hf21/22 happened back in September 2019, and since then we have a bit more honest curation on Steem. Looking at the top payed authors should give us some idea. Before that, it was all about bots.

This post is partly inspired by @whatsup post A Look At Your Top 30 Paid Authors.

The numbers presented here are for December 2019.

Here is the chart:

The table:

No	Auhtor	STEEM
1	@burnpost	13,399
2	@cryptopie	4,299
3	@tarazkp	3,880
4	@gooddream	3,773
5	@donekim	3,749
6	@steemcleaners	3,656
7	@esteemapp	3,490
8	@clixmoney	3,166
9	@taskmaster4450	3,092
10	@lovelyyeon.sct	3,082
11	@cryptoinvestsvk	2,991
12	@joythewanderer	2,966
13	@jrcornel	2,869
14	@fenrir78	2,737
15	@cyberrn	2,587
16	@tradingideas	2,479
17	@travelgirl	2,456
18	@kingscrown	2,440
19	@lucky2	2,419
20	@papa-pepper	2,389

Well now is official. The burn post is by far the most rewarded author on the Steem Blockchain. For those who don’t know the @burnpost is a project by Steem witness @smooth that is burning all its rewards. It has seen some controversy in the last period as its occupying the trending all the time.

Note that the numbers above are authors rewards only. Curation rewards are not included for these accounts.

After burnpost, we can see some close competition between some of the known authors on Steem. What I can notice that there are few authors from 3Speak, and from the Korean communities.

The list above is probably not ideal, but its far better than before HF21/22.

As bonus here are the top 10 post with larges payout in December 2019.

Rank	Author	Post	Post Payout
1	@quochuy	My latest contributions to Steemit Condenser app	179.67
2	@thehipsterguru	Steemfest 4 Bangkok, Thailand Official video	155.91
3	@arcange	SteemSQL - Database update for custom_json operations	124.09
4	@theycallmedan	The Future Of Blockchain - From an Investor's POV	122.93
5	@quochuy	Steemit Condenser contributions: 3Speak embedded player support	121.10
6	@openseed	OpenSeed: Cross-Platform Off-Chain Solutions for Steem Apps	120.69
7	@exyle	Crypto Talk Monday with @exyle: Interview with @andrarchy about Open Seed.	114.22
8	@kadjar	The One Trading Card Game To Rule Them All (Steemit Airdrop!)	112.24
9	@stoodkev	SPS and blockchain events	106.54
10	@wehmoen	Using Auth0 as Identity Provider for 3Speak	97.34

Quite decent I would say. All legit posts. The payouts include authors and curation rewards.

All in all looks like we are making progress.

15% of the reward on this post goes to @null.

The query for the data:

SELECT*
FROM VOAuthorRewards (NOLOCK)
 WHERE
 CONVERT(DATE,timestamp) BETWEEN '2019-12-01' AND '2019-12-31'

All the best
@dalz