315 boards publish something readable. Between them they report $1,664,013. The largest single board takes 16% of that. The top tenth of boards — 32 of them — take 99.4%. The bottom half, 158 boards, report $797 between them, which is less than the top board reports taking in a rounding error.
The distribution
- $0 exactly
- 43 boards
- under $10
- 76 boards
- $10 – $100
- 130 boards
- $100 – $1,000
- 51 boards
- $1,000 – $10,000
- 11 boards
- over $10,000
- 4 boards
215 further boards publish nothing readable at all. They are excluded here rather than counted as zero — treating an unmeasured board as having taken nothing would both understate the wave and misrepresent the board. Why null is never zero.
What it means for anyone thinking of building one
The median board in this census has reported $18. Not per month — in total, across its entire existence. Any plan that assumes a pay-to-rank board is a revenue stream should be tested against that number before it is tested against the top of the table.