YouTube Money Calculator

Estimate how much money a YouTube channel can make: long-form ad revenue by niche RPM, YouTube Shorts earnings, sponsorships, channel memberships and merch — plus a reverse solver for your income goal. A YouTube monetization calculator for planning, not a promise of income.

Estimates only. Actual RPM varies by audience country, season, video length and advertiser demand. RPM ranges below come from published creator surveys, not official YouTube data — replace them with your own YouTube Studio numbers for a precise estimate.

Illustrative rates — update before relying on converted figures.

Estimate YouTube ad revenue

This YouTube ad revenue calculator starts with your niche: pick it to load a creator-reported RPM range, enter your monthly views, and fine-tune the RPM with your own numbers. Wondering how much does YouTube pay per 1000 views in your niche? This is a YouTube RPM calculator and a YouTube per view calculator in one.

Estimated monthly ad revenue (mid)$0.00
Conservative (low RPM)$0.00
Optimistic (high RPM)$0.00
Annual (mid x 12)$0.00

About $0.008 per view (mid RPM).

YouTube RPM by niche (creator-reported estimates)

This YouTube niche RPM table compiles creator-reported ranges from published surveys (see Sources). Advertiser demand sets the YouTube CPM by niche, which is why finance bands pay far more than gaming. Your actual RPM comes from YouTube Studio and replaces these the day you are monetized.

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How the math works

Sources

Frequently asked questions

YouTube does not pay a fixed rate per view. What you earn comes from RPM (revenue per 1,000 views): at a $5 RPM, one view is worth about $0.005, and 1,000,000 views would earn about $5,000. Your actual RPM depends on your niche, audience country and the season.
A good RPM depends on your niche. Finance and investing channels typically report $8 to $20 per 1,000 views, while gaming and entertainment often see $0.50 to $3. Across all niches, published creator surveys put the median RPM around $2.30, so anything consistently above that is above average.
CPM is what advertisers pay per 1,000 ad impressions; RPM is what you keep per 1,000 views. Example: a $20 CPM with 40% of playbacks showing ads and YouTube keeping 45% of ad revenue gives an RPM of about $4.40 ($20 x 0.40 x 0.55). Use the CPM to RPM tab above to run your own numbers.
It depends on the niche: 1,000,000 views at a $14 RPM (mid-range finance) earns about $14,000, while the same 1,000,000 views at a $1.75 RPM (mid-range gaming) earns about $1,750. Multiply your monthly views by your RPM and divide by 1,000 to estimate your own earnings.
Shorts pay far less per view than long-form videos. At a typical Shorts RPM of $0.05 per 1,000 views, 1,000,000 Shorts views earn about $50, and 10,000,000 Shorts views earn about $500. Shorts ad revenue comes from a shared creator pool, and you need 10 million qualified Shorts views in 90 days to be eligible for it.
Divide your target by your RPM and multiply by 1,000. At a $4 RPM you need about 250,000 monetized monthly views to make $1,000 per month. In Shorts, where RPM is much lower, the same $1,000 would need roughly 20,000,000 monthly views.
Enter your monthly views and pick your niche to get an RPM range, or type your own RPM from YouTube Studio. The calculator multiplies views by RPM and divides by 1,000: for example, 250,000 views at a $4 RPM gives about $1,000 per month. The range shows the conservative low end and the optimistic high end.
RPM moves with audience country, season, video length and advertiser demand, so no honest calculator can promise a single exact number. Plan with the low end: the low end of the $8 to $20 finance RPM band on 1,000,000 views is $8,000. Treat the high end as a best case, not a guarantee.
YouTube keeps 45% of long-form ad revenue (you keep 55%), keeps 30% of channel membership revenue (you keep 70%), and creators keep 45% of their share of the Shorts revenue pool. So 1,000 members paying $4.99 per month would earn you about $3,493 per month before taxes.
Finance and investing has the highest reported RPM band at $8 to $20 per 1,000 views, followed by business, software and marketing at $5 to $14. Education and technology sit in the middle, while entertainment and gaming sit at the low end around $0.50 to $3.

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