YouTube money calculator

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   Enter your views

   Type the views you get, or expect, per day or per month.

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   Enter your RPM

   Copy it from YouTube Studio: Analytics, then Revenue. Add a second value to see a range.

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   Read the estimate

   See earnings per day, month and year, and set a monthly goal to see the views it takes.

RPM is what you earn per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share, from ads, YouTube Premium, memberships and Super Chat. CPM is what advertisers pay per 1,000 ad impressions before YouTube's share. RPM is lower than CPM because the share is already taken out and it counts every view, including the ones with no ad.

So use RPM here, and don't take a CPM figure from an article as your RPM: it would overstate what you earn.

Long videos earn a share of the ads shown on them: creators get 55% of that revenue. Shorts are paid from a pool: each country's Shorts ad revenue is shared by engaged views among monetizing creators, and creators keep 45% of what's allocated to them. Your RPM already reflects both, so the calculator doesn't apply them again.

Because the two are paid differently, YouTube Studio lets you see Shorts and long videos separately. Estimate each with its own RPM.

You earn from ads once you join the YouTube Partner Program: 1,000 subscribers plus either 4,000 qualified watch hours in the last 12 months or 10 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days. From February 1, 2027, the Shorts pool also needs 10 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days.

Until then there's no RPM of your own. RPM depends on who watches, where they live, the time of year and how many views carry ads, so try a wide range rather than one number.

That's your RPM, and it differs a lot between channels, so there's no single figure. A monetized channel can see its own in YouTube Studio under Analytics, then Revenue.

1,000 times your RPM. At an RPM of $2, a million views earn $2,000; at $5, $5,000. Enter your own RPM above for your number.

No. Shorts are paid from a shared pool, with creators keeping 45% of their allocation, while long videos earn 55% of their own ad revenue. Use your Shorts RPM for Shorts views.

No. RPM moves from month to month, so the result is a guide. YouTube Studio shows what you actually earned.

No. The calculator runs in your browser and doesn't send what you enter.