Welcome to the 26th weekly installment of my series on Steemit income and growth!
Income on Steemit is generated by "investment" (the more Steem you have, the more you earn) and by "work" (earning Steem by contributing content that adds value). Already having invested my savings in Steem, I'm now working by uploading unique valuable content to the blockchain. My goal is to increase my average weekly income to 15 Steem.
Calculating weekly income
Considering income from accounts that I own, and that my wife owns, and accounts started as group projects with my funds (currently 
Week 01 - 0840 (+ ? ) Steem (+?%)
Week 02 - 0848 (+ 8 ) Steem (+0.95%)
Week 03 - 0862 (+14) Steem (+1.65%)
Week 04 - 0868 (+ 6 ) Steem (+0.70%)
Week 05 - 0876 (+ 8 ) Steem (+0.92%)
Week 06 - 0888 (+12) Steem (+1.37%)
Week 07 - 0914 (+26) Steem (+2.93%)
Week 08 - 0929 (+15) Steem (+1.64%)
Week 09 - 0936 (+ 7 ) Steem (+0.75%)
Week 10 - 0953 (+17) Steem (+1.82%)
Week 11 - 0960 (+ 7 ) Steem (+0.73%)
Week 12 - 0966 (+ 6 ) Steem (+0.63%)
Week 13 - 0973 (+ 7 ) Steem (+0.72%)
Week 14 - 0980 (+ 7 ) Steem (+0.72%)
Week 15 - 0986 (+ 6 ) Steem (+0.61%)
Week 16 - 0991 (+ 5 ) Steem (+0.51%)
Week 17 - 0996 (+ 5 ) Steem (+0.50%)
Week 18 - 1032 (+36) Steem (+3.61%)
Week 19 - 1040 (+ 8 ) Steem (+0.78%)
Week 20 - 1045 (+ 5 ) Steem (+0.48%)
Week 21 - 1051 (+ 6 ) Steem (+0.57%)
Week 22 - 1059 ( +8 ) Steem (+0.76%)
Week 23 - 1065 (+ 6 ) Steem (+0.56%)
Week 24 - 1073 (+ 8 ) Steem (+0.75%)
Week 25 - 1079 (+ 6 ) Steem (+0.56%)
Week 26 - 1091 (+12) Steem (+1.11%)
Average weekly income (last 10 weeks): +9.3 Steem (+0.97%)
In the past week, I (@DRutter) and @MediKatie both had a couple good posts pay out. This nudges our growth back up to a respectable rate, and brings our running average up to almost 1%. Another way to calculate it is to look at how much Steem we've brought in (251) in how many weeks (25). On average, we've managed to pull off a 1% overall growth rate!
At a 1% compounding rate of growth, we should reach our goal in about 32 weeks. (Granted... at current rates, 50 Steem would only get us 38 USD monthly, but hopefully crypto prices will be on the rebound by then!)
Our team reputations are now 52, 51, 49, 42, 41, and 37. Doin' the group grind! : )
Growth Graph
To celebrate half a year of data, I put the numbers into a graph.
The graph makes it look like my growth is linear (fixed at 1% weekly), rather than exponential. Considering my growth is "rolled back in" to my "principle investment", it should be exponential!
The straight red line on the graph shows a 1% weekly growth rate, and it matches very closely with the actual data in green. If the 1% linear growth is projected out, it looks like it will take at least 40 more weeks to reach our goal (purple), not 32 as suggested by the exponential growth calculation (blue). Interesting!
I'm learning a lot about my own growth, and about Steemit, by keeping and analyzing these data. I wonder if anyone else is doing something like this? Seeing more than just my own data would probably be valuable.
In any case, I'm going to continue to keep track of my team growth. Stay tuned for updates and analysis!
DRutter
