--- description: Some patients need fecal transplants to aid their digestive system title: You Can Sell Your Poop for Cash Money image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb215cd75ee55bf4c/698778938e0601da12459938/money-dollar-bills-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # You Can Sell Your Poop For $13,000 a Year  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Jan 30, 2015 3:59 PM CUT  Elizabeth Renstrom for TIME  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Jan 30, 2015 3:59 PM CUT Money definitely doesn’t grow on trees, but it might be growing in your bowels. If you’re really healthy, you can sell your poop to sick people who need it for as much as $13,000 a year. People who are infected with a bacteria called C. difficile need healthy fecal matter in their gut in order to survive — otherwise they need to be on constant antibiotic treatment. Some people with [Crohn’s disease](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/01/excrement-experiment "undefined") also benefit from fecal transplants. So a company called [Open Biome](http://www.openbiome.org/ "undefined") has been facilitating fecal transplants to patients in need, and paying healthy poopers a hefty sum for their services. Fecal matter is transferred either through endoscopy or swallowed capsules, and Open Biome has already shipped about 2,000 treatments to almost 200 hospitals, according to the [Washington _Post_. ](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/01/29/you-can-earn-13000-a-year-selling-your-poop/?tid=pm%5Fpop "undefined")They’ll pay you $40 per sample, plus an extra $50 if you come in 5 days a week (the donations have to be made on-site.) The only thing is, you have to be super-healthy: only about 4% of prospective donors make the cut. Open Biome gives their anonymous donors names like Vladimir Pootin, Albutt Einstein, and Dumpledore, to help make the poop-handling thing go a little more smoothly, according to a [_New Yorker_ ](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/01/excrement-experiment "undefined")piece on the poop-donation industry. So who knows? Maybe you could be the next Rumpoostiltskin. \[[_Washington Post_](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/01/29/you-can-earn-13000-a-year-selling-your-poop/?tid=pm%5Fpop "undefined")\] _Read next:_ [_What Obama’s Tax Plan Would Mean for Your Wallet_](http://time.com/money/3688285/obama-tax-plan-middle-class/?xid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3689384/you-can-sell-your-poop-for-13000-a-year/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3689384/you-can-sell-your-poop-for-13000-a-year/"},"headline":"You Can Sell Your Poop For $13,000 a Year","datePublished":"2015-01-30T15:59:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:23.941Z","description":"Some patients need fecal transplants to aid their digestive system","url":"https://time.com/3689384/you-can-sell-your-poop-for-13000-a-year/","keywords":["Newsfeed","medicine","Money","Science topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb215cd75ee55bf4c/698778938e0601da12459938/money-dollar-bills-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb215cd75ee55bf4c/698778938e0601da12459938/money-dollar-bills-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TIME.com stock photos Money Dollar Bills","caption":"TIME.com stock photos Money Dollar Bills","creditText":"Elizabeth Renstrom for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3689384/you-can-sell-your-poop-for-13000-a-year/","name":"You Can Sell Your Poop For $13,000 a Year"}}]}] ```