YouTube Money Calculator
Estimate how much a YouTube channel earns per day, month and year from long-form and Shorts views — as a realistic low-to-high range, using RPM or CPM.
Presets fill conservative typical ranges. Real RPMs vary widely by channel — use your own YouTube Studio RPM when you have it.
- →Your real RPM is in YouTube Studio → Analytics → Revenue — use it instead of presets.
- →Audience location matters more than your own location.
- →Videos of 8+ minutes can carry mid-roll ads, which can lift RPM.
- →RPMs usually peak in Q4 (Oct–Dec) and dip in January.
This tool is for informational purposes only. Always verify results with a qualified professional.
What is the YouTube Money Calculator?
The YouTube Money Calculator estimates how much ad revenue a channel can earn from its views. Enter daily or monthly long-form views and Shorts views, then either type your own RPM range or pick an audience country and niche preset to fill in a typical range. The result is a low-to-high estimate of daily, monthly and yearly earnings, split between long-form and Shorts. Ranges are used on purpose: two channels with identical view counts can earn ten times apart because of audience location, topic, video length and season.
RPM and CPM are the two numbers people confuse most. CPM (cost per mille) is what advertisers pay per 1,000 ad impressions, before YouTube's share and only on views that actually showed an ad. RPM (revenue per mille) is what you, the creator, earn per 1,000 total views after YouTube's share, including views that showed no ad. For long-form videos, YouTube pays partners 55% of net watch-page ad revenue, so RPM ≈ CPM × share of monetized views × 55%. With a $8 CPM and half of your views monetized, your RPM is about $8 × 0.5 × 0.55 = $2.20. Shorts are paid differently: ad revenue from the Shorts feed is pooled, allocated by views, and creators keep 45% of their allocation, which is why Shorts RPMs are usually a few cents.
Worked example: a channel gets 5,000 long-form views and 20,000 Shorts views a day. With a long-form RPM of $2–$5 and a Shorts RPM of $0.03–$0.08, long-form earns $10–$25 a day and Shorts add $0.60–$1.60. That is about $10.60–$26.60 a day, roughly $322–$809 a month and about $3,869–$9,709 a year. Notice how 20,000 daily Shorts views earn less than a tenth of what 5,000 long-form views earn.
Why do Pakistan and India RPMs differ so much from the US and UK? Advertisers bid for viewers based on how much those viewers are likely to spend, and ad budgets in high-income markets are far larger. One 2025 analysis of 2024 uploads put the median YouTube CPM at about $11.95 for US audiences, $7.60 for the UK, $0.96 for India and $0.42 for Pakistan. What matters is where your viewers are, not where you live: a Pakistani creator with a mostly US audience earns US-level rates. Niche matters too — finance, business, software and education attract advertisers with high customer values, while gaming, music and kids content tend to pay less.
Ad revenue is often the smaller part of a successful channel's income. Other streams include brand sponsorships (frequently priced per 1,000 views), affiliate links, channel memberships, Super Chat and Super Thanks (creators keep 70% of fan-funding revenue), YouTube Premium revenue, selling your own products or courses, and licensing your clips. Treat this calculator as a starting point for ad income, then check the RPM in your YouTube Studio Analytics and enter that for a far more accurate estimate.
How to Use This Calculator
- 1Choose whether you are entering daily or monthly views.
- 2Enter your long-form views and, if you post Shorts, your Shorts views.
- 3Pick an audience country and a niche to fill a typical RPM range, or type your own.
- 4Switch to CPM mode if you know your CPM; set the share of views that show ads (often 40–60%).
- 5Adjust the Shorts RPM range — it is usually only a few cents per 1,000 views.
- 6Click Calculate to see daily, monthly and yearly earnings as a low–high range.