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YouTube Money Calculator

Estimate YouTube earnings from your views and your own channel's RPM — no made-up average CPM figures.

YouTube — Partner Program (Google blog) last updated · reference source

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Currency: Amounts are calculated in the currency you select; this site does not convert between currencies and does not use live exchange rates.

Fee figures are stored in our static fee table and change over time. Confirm current rates against the platform's official fee page before relying on them.

What this tool does

YouTube pays partners 55% of ad revenue on long-form videos and 45% from the Shorts creator pool — but what that means per view depends entirely on your niche, audience and season, so this calculator never invents an 'average CPM'. Instead it uses RPM, the per-1,000-views figure from your own YouTube Studio analytics, which already reflects YouTube's share, and applies it to your views.

How to use the YouTube Money Calculator

  1. Find your RPM in YouTube Studio under Analytics → Revenue.
  2. Enter your monthly long-form views and that RPM.
  3. Optionally add Shorts views with your Shorts RPM and any memberships or Supers income.

Formula

Earnings = (Views ÷ 1,000) × RPM + (Shorts views ÷ 1,000) × Shorts RPM + Other
RPM
Revenue per 1,000 views from your own channel analytics, after YouTube's share

Worked example

100,000 monthly views at a $5 RPM — a channel-specific input, not an average.

Inputs

  • Monthly views (long-form)100000
  • Your channel's RPM (per 1,000 views)$5
  • Monthly Shorts views0
  • Your Shorts RPM (per 1,000 views)$0.05
  • Other monthly revenue (memberships, Supers, Shopping)$0

Result

  • Estimated monthly earnings$500.00
  • Long-form ad earnings$500.00
  • Shorts earnings$0.00
  • Projected yearly earnings$6,000.00

Results explained

Estimated earnings
Your views at your RPM, plus Shorts and other income you entered.
Yearly projection
Monthly estimate × 12, assuming steady views and RPM.

Frequently asked questions

Exactly your RPM — and it varies from under $1 to over $30 per 1,000 views depending on niche, audience country and advertiser demand. Finance channels earn many times what entertainment channels earn per view, which is why this calculator uses your own RPM instead of an 'average'.

CPM is what advertisers pay per 1,000 ad impressions before YouTube's cut. RPM is what you actually receive per 1,000 views after YouTube's 55% partner share and including all revenue sources — it's the number in your Studio analytics and the right one for estimating earnings.

Partners receive 55% of ad revenue on watch-page (long-form) videos and 45% of the allocated Shorts pool. Memberships, Super Chat, Super Stickers and Super Thanks pay 70% of net revenue.

Shorts revenue comes from a shared creator pool allocated by view share, and Shorts ads run between videos rather than on them — so Shorts RPMs are typically a few cents per 1,000 views rather than dollars.

Divide $1,000 by your RPM and multiply by 1,000: at a $5 RPM you need 200,000 monthly views; at a $20 RPM only 50,000. Enter your own RPM above to see your channel's math.