Originally Posted by amateurcanada

If you are settling by a wire transfer it's always significantly higher. If programs are trying to set higher limits then it's a numbers game as it takes more time to get to that limit - most smaller webmasters give up and leave it leaving programs with a hidden bit of gold.

We have ours at 100$ and have many webmasters not actively promoting anymore and we will not settle until this plateau is reached. A good point in researching programs to promote - if the limits are higher and you are a lower traffic promoted, be patient and make sure you invest the time to get paid.