How to generate $50,000 a year from ASX dividends

Earning a passive income of $50,000 a year from the share market is entirely possible for regular investors.

There are a couple of ways to achieve this.

How can you earn $50,000 a year from investing?

If you already have a significant nest egg, then investing your funds into shares with generous dividend yields is the quickest way to do this.

Telstra Corporation Ltd (ASX: TLS) or Westpac Banking Corp (ASX: WBC), for example, offer fully franked forward yields in the region of 5%.

This means that an investment of $1 million in their shares would generate $50,000 in dividends this year.

What if you don’t have a million dollars?

Very few people will be lucky enough to have a million dollars to invest in the share market. But…