Top 10 steemit topics/tags by highest payout 2016/08/06, and how to do it yourself.

steemit 947697.990 SBD
steem 704208.862 SBD
life 190190.750 SBD
photography 180745.985 SBD
travel 158322.885 SBD
money 105013.088 SBD
crypto-news 91843.328 SBD
marijuana 51294.116 SBD
food 50041.647 SBD
art 46066.109 SBD

To get the complete list go to: https://steemit.com/tags.html/trending

To sort the list by payout (maybe there is an easier way to get this?), you need to inject javascript, and you need a javascript/web console which you can find in a desktop browser like chrome or firefox.

Go to https://steemit.com/tags.html/created , you can use an incognito/private window if you don't know how to read javascript and don't want to trust strangers.

Open a javascript console, Chrome type ctrl-shift-j, Firefox ctrl-shift-k.

Copy and paste this code:

var tbody = document.querySelector('tbody');
var children = [];
while (tbody.children.length) {children.push(tbody.children[0]); tbody.removeChild(tbody.children[0])}
children.sort(function (a, b) { var av = parseFloat(a.children[2].innerText); var bv = parseFloat(b.children[2].innerText); return av > bv;});
while (children.length) { tbody.appendChild(children.pop()); }

And it should have sorted the table.