In this post, I show the post popular and top earning posts of May.

It will be interesting to see how the top payouts change following hard fork 19.

The first table shows the most rewarded posts in May. If you want to view them, just click on the link.

Most Rewarded Posts in May 2017

Author	Total Author Payout	Date Published	Link	Title
Hive account@roelandp	7332.46	30/05/2017	Link	save the date steemfest 2017 creamy and delicious 1 2 3 4 5 november lisbon
Hive account@jesta	3295.44	20/05/2017	Link	vessel pre release looking for feedback
Hive account@furion	2576.04	29/05/2017	Link	introducing the mentions app for steem
Hive account@jesta	2254.80	08/05/2017	Link	chainbbcom a blockchain forum platform for steem
Hive account@teamsteem	1958.44	21/05/2017	Link	some steem stats
Hive account@good-karma	1924.15	30/05/2017	Link	esteem ios v1 4 5 schedule posts bandwidth saver language improvements minor android fix 2017530t1125
Hive account@officialfuzzy	1884.05	30/05/2017	Link	beyondbitcoin bounties whaleshares logo contest round 1 3 1000 s of steem in prizes
Hive account@jesta	1693.81	25/05/2017	Link	vessel 006 steem power delegation
Hive account@furion	1646.82	26/05/2017	Link	introducing conductor a simple steem witness toolkit
Hive account@busy.org	1614.52	11/05/2017	Link	busy news three months beta what s new next
Hive account@timcliff	1520.44	28/05/2017	Link	new tool from busy org create new steem blockchain accounts with steemconnect
Hive account@good-karma	1519.61	29/05/2017	Link	steem multi authority permissions and how posting authority works 2017529t84022790z
Hive account@officialfuzzy	1507.58	11/05/2017	Link	breaking officialfuzzy and jcalfee open up bitchute steemit partnership connection will the
Hive account@officialfuzzy	1395.36	20/05/2017	Link	guest signups beyond bitcoin hangout 208 5 26 17 debut your project for a cut of hangout ea
Hive account@good-karma	1375.95	27/05/2017	Link	esteem android v1 4 5 schedule posts bandwidth saver language improvements 2017527t141130734z
Hive account@furion	1353.95	08/05/2017	Link	teaser soon you will be able to publish videos on steem
Hive account@good-karma	1336.01	20/05/2017	Link	esteem feature set 9 voters info day and night mode 2017520t959584z
Hive account@cryptoctopus	1288.30	19/05/2017	Link	chainbb a review of what may become way bigger than steemit com
Hive account@stan	1179.95	30/05/2017	Link	bitshares hit by cat 5 miracle of heroic proportions
Hive account@timsaid	1178.66	17/05/2017	Link	myth or fact 17 cockroaches can survive a nuclear catastrophe

Most Rewarded Authors in May 2017

Author	No. of Posts	Total Author Payout	Payout Per Post
Hive account@kingscrown	34	20235.59	595.16
Hive account@knozaki2015	59	16691.12	282.90
Hive account@papa-pepper	101	15434.18	152.81
Hive account@good-karma	20	14005.30	700.26
Hive account@jesta	13	11340.77	872.37
Hive account@officialfuzzy	16	11214.67	700.92
Hive account@acidyo	117	10175.13	86.97
Hive account@timsaid	15	9966.80	664.45
Hive account@ats-david	36	9547.93	265.22
Hive account@joseph	21	8530.21	406.20
Hive account@craig-grant	227	8501.00	37.45
Hive account@jrcornel	29	8464.58	291.88
Hive account@furion	9	8400.27	933.36
Hive account@steemcleaners	34	7770.65	228.55
Hive account@thecryptofiend	26	7520.71	289.26
Hive account@mynameisbrian	47	7416.95	157.81
Hive account@roelandp	2	7392.74	3696.37
Hive account@sweetsssj	19	7107.09	374.06
Hive account@hilarski	47	6668.52	141.88
Hive account@meesterboom	30	6593.17	219.77

In the next table I’ve split out the reward statistics by main tag. A couple of observations:

Steemit had the highest author payout per post in May
Music had the lowest
Outside of “Other”, “Photography” was the most used main tag in a post.

Posts by Main Tag

I will publish another post shortly with the vote statistics.

Thank you for reading.