If microstock would be your only job/income/activity, how many images could you get approved monthly without hiring anyone if only getting pictures approved would be goal? Commercial value etc. secondary just getting picture approved would be goal.

I have seen few contributors like Africa Studio and Elnur in Shutterstock who upload and get approaved around 2000 images to 10,000 images monthly (neither one of those contributors do all the job by themselves thought Elnur has other job besides microstock too).

If someone would offer you 1 million dollars and you would have to do all shooting, editing, keywording, uploading, finding models, planning the shoots, buying and finding all props etc. by yourself and would give microstock 1 year what you think could be maximum amount of pictures you could get approved if you would put all your effort and time and 1 million dollars would be reward? Just photos and reasonable amount of variation.

What you think could be your monthly average upload in one year period if 1 million dollars would be guaranteed as reward as long as you get those "maximum uploads"? With 100% effort and focus could you get 100, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000, 10000 images per month? What would be the limit that you would find "bet" realistic to take?

....What you think would be your monthly average upload in one year period if 1 million dollars would be guaranteed as reward and you would be able to give it 100% effort and focus?

For a guaranteed 1 million, I would do 1 a month, why do more

For a guaranteed 1 million, I would do 1 a month, why do more

Sorry I rewrote the original message. Idea was that someone would say if you can upload for example 120,000 pictures by yourself in one year and get all them approved with reasonable variation. Here is 1 million dollar for you.

What you think would be limit for yourself as single contributor doing all the work alone? I just saw those few contributors who can do 2000-10,000 new pictures monthly but they have more than 1 people working so those would not be counted.
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I'm sorry but it's a silly question  No one can reach 120 000 images accepted ,over the year.    
I'm happy if I manage to upload 200 clips per month and not talking about pictures (where the rate of rejection is huge).

i believe about 200-300 images monthly

alone i can't make much more.

you could just ask: "if microstock is your only job/income, how much images can you make monthly without hiring anyone"

I do everything myself, and I do what I think will pay off.  Which is most for Stocksy and a few for micro.  Why waste the time there?

If you come into this game with a large library of images, then the effort is to upload and check existing keywords. If you start with no library then shoot, retouch, keyword, upload will be a much different/larger effort.