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Making Sense of Cents
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How Much Money Making Sense of Cents Makes
Personal finance blog sharing money-saving and side-income tips
Latest sourced run-rate
$100K
/mo
Oct 19, 2025
First sourced
$99K
/mo
2017
Charted
5
high-confidence figures
All figures
12
across 8 sources
Sources
Other figures we found
— sourced quotes that didn't make the headline (older, less-precise, or attribution unclear)| Date | Figure | Source | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 2025 | $50K /mo |
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“Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - Making Sense of Cents ... High: $50K+ monthly affiliate income, $1.5M+ annually” | medium |
| Oct 19, 2025 | $125K /mo |
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“Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - Making Sense of Cents ... High: $50K+ monthly affiliate income, $1.5M+ annually” | medium |
| 2018 | $125K /mo |
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“Making Sense of Cents, a finance blog, earned over $1.5 million in 2018.” | medium |
| 2016 | $83K /mo |
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“Now, she's pulling in nearly $1 million per year. ... Four years later, she made just shy of $1 million running her blog, Making Sense of Cents, wh...” | medium |
Notable revenue events
— one-time totals, not monthly run-rate| Date | Figure | Source | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2022 | $4.0M one-time |
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“The business had made over $4 million in revenue over the last five years” | high |
| Aug 1, 2022 | $5.0M one-time |
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“Since she started, she has made more than $5 million.” | high |
| Aug 9, 2020 | $5.0M one-time |
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“I earn around $100,000 a month from Making Sense of Cents and have made over $5,000,000 from it over the years.” | high |