YouTube Money Calculator
Estimate what a channel earns from its views. Enter the views per day or per month and the RPM from your YouTube Studio, as a low and a high value, and get a range per day, month and year. The result comes from your own numbers, not from a fixed rate per view.
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Estimate
Enter your views and at least one RPM to see the estimate.
Breakdown
An estimate in US dollars from the numbers you typed, not a payment forecast. What you are actually paid depends on your real RPM and is finalized in AdSense for YouTube.
How this estimate works
The formula
Estimated earnings = views ÷ 1,000 × RPM. With a low and a high RPM, the same formula runs twice and gives a range. A year counts as 365 days and a month as one twelfth of a year, so the daily, monthly and yearly figures always agree.
RPM comes from your channel
YouTube defines RPM (revenue per mille) as how much money you earned per 1,000 video views, based on several revenue sources: ads, channel memberships, YouTube Premium revenue, Super Chat and Super Stickers. This page has no default RPM. Use the one in your YouTube Studio.
RPM is not CPM
CPM is what advertisers pay per 1,000 ad impressions, before YouTube's revenue share. RPM is lower than CPM because it is calculated after the revenue share and includes all views, also the ones that had no ad. YouTube itself notes that your revenue is not your CPM times your views.
Revenue share is already inside RPM
YouTube pays partners 55% of net revenue from ads shown on the watch page of their public videos. For Shorts, ad revenue is pooled, and creators keep 45% of what is allocated to them from the Creator Pool. RPM is measured after that share, so the calculator does not apply it again.
Long-form videos and Shorts
For videos, RPM includes all views. For Shorts, it includes engaged views. The two formats are paid in different ways, so estimate each one with its own views and its own RPM.
What the estimate cannot know
Revenue in YouTube Analytics is an estimate that YouTube adjusts for invalid traffic, copyright claims and certain ad campaign types. Finalized earnings are only visible in AdSense for YouTube, and tax withholding may affect them. To earn ad revenue, a channel has to be accepted into the YouTube Partner Program.
Sources
YouTube Help pages, checked on October 10, 2026. Rates and thresholds can change: the linked pages are the reference.
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- Open YouTube Studio, go to Analytics and then Revenue, and note your RPM. For a range, use a lower and a higher RPM your channel has had.
- Choose long-form videos or Shorts, and say whether your views are per day or per month.
- Type the views and the RPM in US dollars. One RPM gives a single figure, two give a range.
- Read the estimate per day, month and year. Then download the card or copy the result.
Examples
Monthly views and one RPM
Arithmetic only, with a made-up RPM: 100,000 views in a month at an RPM of US$ 2.00 is 100,000 ÷ 1,000 × 2 = US$ 200 for the month, about US$ 6.58 a day and US$ 2,400 a year.
Daily views and a range
Made-up numbers again: 5,000 views a day at an RPM between US$ 1.50 and US$ 4.00 is US$ 7.50 to US$ 20.00 a day, about US$ 228 to US$ 608 a month and US$ 2,738 to US$ 7,300 a year.
Working out your own RPM
If Studio shows US$ 450 of estimated revenue for 150,000 views, the RPM is 450 ÷ 150,000 × 1,000 = US$ 3.00.
Questions
How much does YouTube pay per view?
There is no fixed amount per view. Advertisers pay for ad impressions, not every view has an ad, and YouTube passes a share of that revenue on to the creator. The number that sums it up for your channel is your RPM, the revenue per 1,000 views shown in YouTube Analytics.
What is RPM on YouTube?
RPM means revenue per mille: how much you earned per 1,000 views. According to YouTube, it is based on several sources, such as ads, channel memberships, YouTube Premium revenue, Super Chat and Super Stickers, and it is counted after YouTube's revenue share.
What is the difference between RPM and CPM?
CPM is the cost of 1,000 ad impressions for the advertiser, before the split with YouTube. RPM is your total revenue per 1,000 views, after that split and counting the views without ads too. To estimate earnings, use RPM.
Where do I find my RPM?
In YouTube Studio, open Analytics and then the Revenue tab. The content performance report shows how much your videos, Shorts and live streams earned and includes RPM. The tab is there for channels that are in the YouTube Partner Program.
Is RPM different for Shorts?
It is calculated differently. For Shorts, RPM includes engaged views, and ad revenue goes into a pool shared among creators, who keep 45% of what is allocated to them. For long-form videos the share is 55% of net revenue from watch page ads. Use the RPM of each format from your own analytics.
Do I need the YouTube Partner Program to earn?
For ad revenue, yes. YouTube lists two ways to become eligible: 1,000 subscribers with 4,000 qualified watch hours in the last 12 months, or 1,000 subscribers with 10 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days. The channel also has to follow the monetization policies and be accepted.
Why is my real payment different from the estimate?
Because the calculator only multiplies your numbers. On YouTube, estimated revenue is adjusted for invalid traffic, copyright claims and certain ad campaign types, and finalized earnings are only visible in AdSense for YouTube, where tax withholding may also apply.
Does this calculator send my numbers anywhere?
No. The maths runs in your browser. The views and the RPM you type are not uploaded, are not added to the page address and are not saved.