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
@roelandp	7332.46	30/05/2017	Link	save the date steemfest 2017 creamy and delicious 1 2 3 4 5 november lisbon
@jesta	3295.44	20/05/2017	Link	vessel pre release looking for feedback
@furion	2576.04	29/05/2017	Link	introducing the mentions app for steem
@jesta	2254.80	08/05/2017	Link	chainbbcom a blockchain forum platform for steem
@teamsteem	1958.44	21/05/2017	Link	some steem stats
@good-karma	1924.15	30/05/2017	Link	esteem ios v1 4 5 schedule posts bandwidth saver language improvements minor android fix 2017530t1125
@officialfuzzy	1884.05	30/05/2017	Link	beyondbitcoin bounties whaleshares logo contest round 1 3 1000 s of steem in prizes
@jesta	1693.81	25/05/2017	Link	vessel 006 steem power delegation
@furion	1646.82	26/05/2017	Link	introducing conductor a simple steem witness toolkit
@busy.org	1614.52	11/05/2017	Link	busy news three months beta what s new next
@timcliff	1520.44	28/05/2017	Link	new tool from busy org create new steem blockchain accounts with steemconnect
@good-karma	1519.61	29/05/2017	Link	steem multi authority permissions and how posting authority works 2017529t84022790z
@officialfuzzy	1507.58	11/05/2017	Link	breaking officialfuzzy and jcalfee open up bitchute steemit partnership connection will the
@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
@good-karma	1375.95	27/05/2017	Link	esteem android v1 4 5 schedule posts bandwidth saver language improvements 2017527t141130734z
@furion	1353.95	08/05/2017	Link	teaser soon you will be able to publish videos on steem
@good-karma	1336.01	20/05/2017	Link	esteem feature set 9 voters info day and night mode 2017520t959584z
@cryptoctopus	1288.30	19/05/2017	Link	chainbb a review of what may become way bigger than steemit com
@stan	1179.95	30/05/2017	Link	bitshares hit by cat 5 miracle of heroic proportions
@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
@kingscrown	34	20235.59	595.16
@knozaki2015	59	16691.12	282.90
@papa-pepper	101	15434.18	152.81
@good-karma	20	14005.30	700.26
@jesta	13	11340.77	872.37
@officialfuzzy	16	11214.67	700.92
@acidyo	117	10175.13	86.97
@timsaid	15	9966.80	664.45
@ats-david	36	9547.93	265.22
@joseph	21	8530.21	406.20
@craig-grant	227	8501.00	37.45
@jrcornel	29	8464.58	291.88
@furion	9	8400.27	933.36
@steemcleaners	34	7770.65	228.55
@thecryptofiend	26	7520.71	289.26
@mynameisbrian	47	7416.95	157.81
@roelandp	2	7392.74	3696.37
@sweetsssj	19	7107.09	374.06
@hilarski	47	6668.52	141.88
@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

Category	No. of Posts	Total Author Payout	Payout per Post
Art	4227	29681.14	7.02
Crytpocurrencies	6477	40154.07	6.20
Food	2487	33404.89	13.43
Funny	1535	10287.65	6.70
Life	7236	78184.98	10.81
Money and Economics	2428	8641.80	3.56
Music	2466	6396.18	2.59
News	2919	9537.43	3.27
Other	77349	552496.98	7.14
Photography	10044	61373.36	6.11
Steemit	7188	106084.04	14.76
Technology & Science	1417	18185.98	12.83
Travel	2539	35132.59	13.84
Writing	1194	11061.83	9.26

I will publish another post shortly with the vote statistics.

Thank you for reading.