A month ago I wrote a post on the Top Payed Steem Authors looking at the top payed Steem authors. But this only shows a part of the picture since author rewards are around 40% of the inflation (reward pool).

Here we will be looking at the overall inflation distribution, meaning looking at the authors, curators, witnesses and DAO rewards.

Hf21/22 happened back in September 2019, and since then we have a bit more honest on Steem. Looking at the top payed authors should give us some idea. Before that, it was all about bots.

The EIP happened as well with 50/50 split in the authors/curators share. DAO also was introduced taking a 10% share from the inflation.
The inflation now goes as follows:

• Authors 40%
• Curators 40%
• Witnesses 10%
• DAO 10%

We will look at the numbers for Steem distributed for each category, the top earners of the categories and a compiled data for the overall top earners on Steem.

Overall STEEM Distribution

Here is the overall STEEM distribution by categories.

The data presented here will be for the period between 10.01.2020 till 09.02.2020.

The table.

	SBD	STEEM	SP	Total STEEM	Share
Authors	2,861	365,258	422,915	801,276	38.11%
Curators	0	0	801,910	801,910	38.14%
Witnesses	0	0	259,276	259,276	12.33%
DAO	52,431	0	0	240,134	11.42%
Total	55,292	365,258	1,484,101	2,102,596	100.00%

Note: The total STEEM column contains the SBD converted to STEEM with the average SBD to STEEM ratio in the period.

A total of 2.1 million STEEM equivalent was distributed in the period, out of which authors and curators got around 800k STEEM each, and witnesses and the @steem.dao got around 250k each.

Interesting a lot of the Steem payouts happens in SP, non-liquid. The liquid payments are only 30% share, out of which the DAO takes a large share.

Top earners by categories

Let’s take a look into the top earners of each of the categories.

Top Authors

Here is the table for the Steem Authors that earned the most in the period.

Rank	Author	Total STEEM	SBD	STEEM	SP
1	burnpost	22,730	89	10,938	11,386
2	cryptopie	4,339	20	2,057	2,192
3	tarazkp	4,303	25	2,032	2,157
4	esteemapp	3,761	19	1,789	1,884
5	steemcleaners	3,755	15	1,803	1,882
6	donekim	3,697	18	1,761	1,853
7	taskmaster4450	3,554	13	607	2,889
8	cryptoinvestsvk	3,158	9	1,533	1,581
9	jrcornel	3,036	0	1	3,035
10	kingscrown	2,679	8	1,302	1,342
11	aggroed	2,638	24	1,203	1,323
12	goodhello	2,491	10	1,196	1,248
13	steemitworldmap	2,435	10	1,171	1,220
14	lightcaptured	2,407	0	1,200	1,205
15	lovelyyeon.sct	2,337	8	1,132	1,170
16	fenrir78	2,331	9	1,122	1,167
17	clixmoney	2,269	11	1,083	1,137
18	galenkp	2,259	5	1,103	1,131
19	gooddream	2,230	8	1,075	1,117
20	sonki999	2,203	5	1,076	1,103

The burnpost on the top. Better than bid-bots 😊. All the other authors are quite legit as well. No bid bots.

Top Curators

The top curators earnings table looks like this.

Rank	Curator	SP
1	appreciator	50,724
2	rocky1	25,477
3	upmewhale	23,255
4	blocktrades	21,752
5	tipu	20,754
6	ocdb	17,760
7	bdvoter	14,276
8	dtube	13,987
9	sct.krwp	10,679
10	oracle-d	10,629
11	theycallmedan	10,436
12	buildawhale	10,022
13	steemhunt	9,909
14	minigame	9,448
15	curie	8,722
16	curangel	8,590
17	steemzzang	8,142
18	threespeak	7,819
19	trafalgar	7,575
20	steempress-io	6,753

The @appreciator account has a 5M SP delegation from @freedom and it’s the largest account that is curating, ergo the curations rewards.

Top Witnesses

The top witnesses earnings table looks like this.

Rank	Witness	SP
1	roelandp	10,463
2	gtg	10,461
3	clayop	10,461
4	good-karma	10,460
5	blocktrades	10,458
6	anyx	10,458
7	yabapmatt	10,458
8	aggroed	10,457
9	themarkymark	10,456
10	steempeak	10,456
11	thecryptodrive	10,455
12	ocd-witness	10,454
13	someguy123	10,433
14	curie	10,424
15	ausbitbank	10,242
16	timcliff	10,169
17	emrebeyler	9,964
18	smooth.witness	9,911
19	therealwolf	7,942
20	cervantes	7,527

The top witnesses earn around 10k per month.

The Steem.DAO payouts

Accounts that received funding from the Steem.DAO in the period.

Rank	Author	SBD
1	sbdpotato	6,167
2	howo	5,339
3	netuoso	3,588
4	steem-keychain	3,095
5	steemonboarding	1,760
6	anyx	441

Overall Top Earners

From the data above we can compile the payout for a single ranking on overall top earners on the Steem platform in the last period.

Here it the table.

Rank	Account	Total STEEM	Posting	Curator	Witness	DAO
1	appreciator	50,724	0	50,724	0	0
2	blocktrades	32,210	0	21,752	10,458	0
3	sbdpotato	28,246	0	0	0	28,246
4	rocky1	25,477	0	25,477	0	0
5	howo	24,453	0	0	0	24,453
6	upmewhale	23,255	0	23,255	0	0
7	burnpost	22,730	22,730	0	0	0
8	tipu	20,754	0	20,754	0	0
9	curie	19,146	0	8,722	10,424	0
10	themarkymark	17,805	1,413	5,935	10,456	0
11	ocdb	17,760	0	17,760	0	0
12	netuoso	17,010	0	38	539	16,433
13	bdvoter	14,276	0	14,276	0	0
14	steem-keychain	14,175	0	0	0	14,175
15	dtube	13,987	0	13,987	0	0
16	aggroed	13,533	2,638	439	10,457	0
17	gtg	13,511	0	3,049	10,461	0
18	anyx	12,648	0	172	10,458	2,018
19	therealwolf	11,608	0	3,666	7,942	0
20	steemhunt	11,032	0	9,909	1,123	0

If we take a look at the top earners, we can notice that not a lot of authors are in the top. The no.1 is a curation account, @blocktrades is a combination of witness and curation, @sbdpotato and @howo are Steem.DAO workers, and some more curators and witnesses on the top as well.

All the best
@dalz

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