Fortunately, we don’t have to rely on questionable surveys and random anecdotes to know whether writing can be a viable career, because every single year writers and authors have to report their income to the government and that information is published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau. Imagine that? Actual hard data, not just people’s assumptions, opinions, or personal experience. Below are a few highlights worth sharing with anyone in your life who thinks writers can’t make a living. These numbers may be hard to believe given how thoroughly ingrained the idea that writers don’t make any money has become in our culture.
