How much money did Alexander Pope earn from translating Homer?

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Portrait of poet Alexander Pope — Alexander Pope Alexander Pope, portrait by Thomas Hudson, c. 1739; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Alexander Pope earned approximately £10,000 from his verse translations of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.1

These significant financial rewards allowed Pope to achieve financial independence, famously noting that he could "live and thrive / Indebted to no Prince or Peer alive". While he collaborated with William Broome and Elijah Fenton on the Odyssey, the total earnings from both translation projects provided him with substantial wealth.12