--- title: You Can Sell Your Poop to People Who Need It for Cash description: Some patients need fecal transplants to aid their digestive system canonical: https://time.com/3689384/you-can-sell-your-poop-for-13000-a-year/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-30T15:59:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:23.941Z og:title: You Can Sell Your Poop for Cash Money og:description: Some patients need fecal transplants to aid their digestive system og:url: https://time.com/3689384/you-can-sell-your-poop-for-13000-a-year/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb215cd75ee55bf4c/698778938e0601da12459938/money-dollar-bills-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: TIME.com stock photos Money Dollar Bills og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: You Can Sell Your Poop for Cash Money twitter:description: Some patients need fecal transplants to aid their digestive system twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb215cd75ee55bf4c/698778938e0601da12459938/money-dollar-bills-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # You Can Sell Your Poop For $13,000 a Year > Sponsored content. 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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) also benefit from fecal transplants. So a company called [Open Biome](http://www.openbiome.org/) 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)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)piece on the poop-donation industry. So who knows? Maybe you could be the next Rumpoostiltskin. \[[_Washington Post_](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/01/29/you-can-earn-13000-a-year-selling-your-poop/?tid=pm%5Fpop)\] _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) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```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"}}]}] ```