I'm amazed that adsense was bringing in enough money to pay for anything. You generally need 100k+ visits a day just to break into minimum wage territory.
By minimum wage territory I guess you mean the range of $50 - $100/day? You must have a pretty low ecpm to only earn that much from 100k visitors/day. My experience is at least 6x that range.
My experience has been about $1 per 1,000 visitors. But that was a while ago and I didn't publish content about mesothelioma. Mostly programming stuff.
