Medium “Careers” tag statistics
How busy the Careers tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is moderate, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 760 stories from the last 14.1 days
Busier than 34% of 73 tracked tags
37% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 54 stories a day, Careers is busier than 34% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (17,363 followers per daily story) is higher than 30% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
64% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 37% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 40% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 5.4 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Careers stories
| Publication | Followers | Careers stories (last 14.1d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 27 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 19 |
| Stacks & Side Hustles | 34 | 8 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 7 |
| Career Paths | 17K | 6 |
| Women in Technology | 10K | 4 |
| Analyst’s corner | 4.8K | 4 |
| Modern Women | 14K | 4 |
| Data Science Collective | 962K | 4 |
| Artificial Intelligence in Plain English | 50K | 3 |
Top Careers stories right now
- Comfort Feels Good, But It Doesn’t Always Make You Grow
- The Pressure to Have Your Life Figured Out by 30 Is Breaking Us
- The Only Rare Skills You Need Right Now as AI Destroys Careers
- Seventy Years Ago My Mom Made Headlines
- Want More Income? Sometimes, You Have to Look Beyond What You're Already Doing.
- Judged by a Ghost: Why We Punish Our Present for the Promises of Our Past
- I was born to be useless
- Shoot Your Way Out of the Slump
- Every Office Has That One Guy Who Says, “Just 10 Minutes, Sir”
- Life With AI: The Year We Forgot How to Work
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Careers tag on Medium?
- About 54 per day (377 per week), based on 760 stories published in the 14.1-day window before our last scan. The tag has 112,690 stories in total.
- Is the Careers tag competitive?
- Competition is moderate: it is busier than 34% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 17,363 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Careers?
- 37% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 64% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.