How Many Premium Members Are There?

     Just curious, how many members at Chess.com are Premium, and what
percentage of the overall membership do they encompass?

I suppose we must find out the hard way, since noone answered.

#1 = Zankfrappa

#2 = Crazychessplaya

Artfizz might have the answer.

I don't - but surely all it takes is a little sampling, statistical analysis, a few assumptions and some rudimentary arithmetic to arrive at a plausible answer.

It wouldn't surprise me if Erik threw in a free T-shirt to the person who gets closest to the correct answer. (Though he would obviously do this discreetly, since this is business-sensitive information).

Standard Competition Eligibility Conditions apply.

 and .........well..what you got so far ???

Do I have to do everything around here?

My first guestimate is: maximum 16% of active members are premium.

25%.  Why is Chess.com so quiet on this?

Suppose your livelihood depended on how many free visitors to your website you could convert into buying members. And further suppose that your conversion rate was 5% - which you published. Some other competing website might say to themselves: 'We convert 3% of our visitors, so with just a bit more effort, we could overtake chess.com!"

 You don't have to do anything really but you like doing it though don't you ?

how abot maybe 22%

How did you come up with that figure ?

...guessing

I counted all of the members on chess.com

we have 123456 members (12%)

$739501.44 per month

$1027 per hour

$17 per minute

All cash is based in USD

I understand he can't tell us, but it would be neat to know.

In your work paul211 in a company, do they tell to the public what is their salary ? I don't think so. 

     However, in this case many Premium Members are designated with a diamond or a gold star, so it's not really a secret.

Add I more

I am so I can do as many tactical puzzles as I want.

If the diamond thing was optional - I'd turn it off.  What's the point of it?