YouTube Money Calculator — What Your Views Are Actually Worth

How YouTube actually pays creators

Long-form revenue share — 55%

Google publishes this one: on standard videos the creator keeps 55% of the ad revenue their video generates, and Google keeps 45%. Your RPM already reflects it.

Shorts revenue share — 45%

Shorts pay out of a pooled fund rather than per video, and creators keep 45% of their allocated share. Shorts RPM is normally far below long-form, which is why a channel's overall RPM falls as Shorts take a larger share of its views.

RPM is not CPM

CPM is what an advertiser pays per 1,000 ad impressions — before YouTube's cut, and counting only views that carried an ad. RPM is what reaches your account per 1,000 views, ads or not. RPM is always the smaller number, and it is the one this calculator wants.

Not every view is monetised

Ad blockers, under-13 audiences, advertiser-unfriendly labels and simple ad inventory gaps all mean a share of your views earn nothing. RPM already accounts for that; CPM does not.

Getting into the Partner Programme

YouTube's published requirement for ad revenue is 1,000 subscribers plus either 4,000 valid public watch hours in 12 months or 10 million valid public Shorts views in 90 days. Availability varies by country — check YouTube's own page for yours.

Getting paid

AdSense pays out once your balance reaches $100. Below that it rolls into the next month.

How to work out what your channel earns

1. Open YouTube Studio → Analytics → Revenue and read your RPM. Use the same period you're about to enter views for.
2. Put your monthly views and that RPM into the two fields. The estimate updates as you type.
3. Read the per-day and per-year lines to see the same figure over the horizon you care about.

Frequently asked questions

How much does YouTube pay per 1,000 views?

There is no single figure, and any page that gives you one is inventing it. The amount depends on your niche, where your audience is, the time of year and how many of your views carry ads. The honest answer is your own RPM, which YouTube reports to you in Studio under Analytics → Revenue — put that number into the field above.

What's the difference between RPM and CPM?

CPM is the advertiser's cost per 1,000 ad impressions. RPM is your revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's 45% share and after the views that carried no ad at all. RPM is typically a fraction of CPM. Calculators that ask for CPM and present the result as your earnings overstate it substantially.

Why doesn't this calculator fill in an RPM for me?

Because we would have to make it up. Published RPM-by-niche tables trace back to small private samples or to a handful of creators who shared screenshots, and they are presented as if they were measurements. Your own RPM is a real measurement and it's two clicks away in Studio, so that is what this asks for.

Do Shorts earn the same as long videos?

Normally no — considerably less per view. Shorts are paid from a revenue pool split across creators rather than per video, at a 45% share. If a large part of your views are Shorts, your channel RPM will already reflect that, so the estimate above stays correct as long as you used your real RPM.

Does this include sponsorships, memberships and Super Thanks?

No. This is ad revenue only, which is what RPM measures. For many channels brand deals are the larger income, and they are negotiated per deal rather than per view, so no calculator can estimate them from a view count.

Is this accurate?

The arithmetic is exact; the inputs are yours. If you enter the RPM YouTube reported for last month and the views you actually got, the result matches what you were paid, minus anything outside ad revenue. If you guess the RPM, the answer is a guess with more decimal places.