# YouTube money calculator: estimate earnings from views and RPM

> Estimate your YouTube earnings per day, month and year from your views and the RPM in YouTube Studio, see a range, and work out the views a monthly goal takes. Free, no sign-up.

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Enter your views and the RPM YouTube Studio shows you, and see what that earns per day, month and year, or how many views a monthly goal takes. It doesn't guess an RPM for you, because no single number fits every channel.

Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

## How to use it

1. **Enter your views.** Type the views you get, or expect, per day or per month.
2. **Enter your RPM.** Copy it from YouTube Studio: Analytics, then Revenue. Add a second value to see a range.
3. **Read the estimate.** See earnings per day, month and year, and set a monthly goal to see the views it takes.

## RPM, not CPM

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.

## Where the money comes from

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.

## Before there's an 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.

## Sources

- [YouTube Help: Understand ad revenue analytics](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9314357)
- [YouTube Help: YouTube Partner Program overview & eligibility](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72851)
- [YouTube Help: YouTube Shorts monetization policies](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12504220)
- [YouTube Help: Share revenue using Creator Music](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12657860)

## Questions

### How much does YouTube pay per 1,000 views?

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.

### How much do 1 million views make?

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.

### Do Shorts pay the same as long videos?

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.

### Is the estimate exact?

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

### Is anything I type sent anywhere?

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