# Hermoso: YouTube Money Calculator, plus TikTok: Estimate Earnings > Machine-readable twin of https://hermoso.ai/tools/youtube-money-calculator/. Generated from the shipped page. Do not edit by hand. > Full agent guide: https://hermoso.ai/llms.txt · MCP: https://app.hermoso.ai/mcp YouTube money calculator # YouTube money calculator, plus TikTok earnings YouTube pays no fixed amount per view. You earn your views ÷ 1,000 × your RPM, the figure YouTube Studio shows under Analytics, Revenue. Monetized long-form videos get 55% of net ad revenue and Shorts get 45% of their Creator Pool share. Put in your own numbers for videos, Shorts and TikTok. Free tool Works it out in your browser. **Nothing you type is sent, stored or logged.** No rates are built in: you bring your own. Views are counted **Per day Per month CurrencyUSDEURGBPCADAUDBRLMXNINRJPY 1. YouTube videos (long-form) I know my RPM Work it out from CPM Views a day Your RPM (per 1,000 views) Views with ads (%) Playback-based CPM Your revenue share (%) 2. YouTube Shorts Shorts views a day Your Shorts RPM 3. TikTok Creator Rewards Qualified views a day Your rate per 1,000 qualified views TikTok publishes no rate. To get yours, type a past payout and the qualified views it came from, both shown in TikTok Studio: Rewards paid Qualified views for that payout 4. Brand deals (optional) Sponsored posts a month Your fee per post Try it with made-up numbers Start over Made-up numbers**, there to show how the sums work. They are not typical rates. Replace them with your own from YouTube Studio and TikTok Studio. 5. Am I eligible to earn? YouTube subscribers Public uploads, last 90 days Long-form watch hours, last 365 days Shorts views, last 90 days TikTok followers TikTok video views, last 30 days **The short answer, as of October 2026:** YouTube doesn’t pay a set amount per view, so any calculator with a built-in rate is guessing. What you earn per 1,000 views is your **RPM**, and YouTube Studio already shows it: open **Analytics**, then **Revenue**. Earnings = views ÷ 1,000 × RPM. Under the YouTube Partner Program, YouTube pays creators 55% of net revenue from ads on long-form videos, 45% of their share of the Shorts Creator Pool, and 70% of net revenue from memberships and other fan funding. TikTok pays through its Creator Rewards Program and publishes no rate at all. ## How much does YouTube pay per 1,000 views? It depends on the channel, and the honest figure is the one in your own YouTube Studio. YouTube’s [ad revenue analytics page](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9314357) defines RPM as “how much money you’ve earned per 1,000 video views”, counted after YouTube’s revenue share, and the [revenue report page](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9314488) says where to find it: Analytics, Revenue, in the content performance report, split by videos, Shorts and live streams. So the formula is short: - **Earnings** = views ÷ 1,000 × RPM. - 2,000 views a day at an RPM of 2.00 is 2 × 2.00 = 4.00 a day, about 122 a month and 1,460 a year. Those are made-up inputs to show the arithmetic, not a typical rate. RPM counts every view, including ones that showed no ad, and it includes YouTube Premium, memberships, Super Chat and Super Stickers as well as ads. It leaves out merch, sponsorships and anything you earn off YouTube. Not in the program yet, so no RPM to read? Then there is nothing to plug in, and a figure from a stranger’s channel in another niche or country tells you little. ## RPM vs CPM on YouTube CPM is what advertisers pay per 1,000 ad impressions, before YouTube’s share. RPM is what you keep per 1,000 views, after it. That is why RPM is always the lower of the two. YouTube Analytics shows two CPMs. **CPM** is the advertiser cost per 1,000 ad impressions. **Playback-based CPM** is the cost per 1,000 playbacks that showed at least one ad. YouTube’s own example: 5,000 views, of which 1,500 showed ads (2,000 ad impressions in all), and $7 paid by advertisers. That is a CPM of $3.50 and a playback-based CPM of $4.67. The calculator’s “Work it out from CPM” mode uses the playback-based one: **earnings = views × share of views with ads ÷ 1,000 × playback-based CPM × your revenue share**. The revenue share starts at 55%, the Watch Page rate on YouTube’s [partner earnings page](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72902), and you can change it. The share of views with ads is your estimated monetized playbacks divided by your views; both are in the Revenue tab. This mode counts ads only, so it comes out lower than your RPM if you also earn from Premium or fan funding. ## How much do YouTube Shorts pay? Shorts don’t earn from the ad next to them. Per YouTube’s [Shorts monetization policies](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12504220), all the ad revenue from the Shorts Feed is pooled each month, part of it goes to music licensing, and the rest (the Creator Pool) is shared out by each creator’s share of engaged views in each country. You keep 45% of what is allocated to you, with or without music. Premium revenue on Shorts is also paid at 45%. So a Shorts estimate needs your Shorts RPM, which is per 1,000 engaged views and sits next to your long-form RPM in the Revenue tab. It is a separate number from your long-form RPM, because the pool is split across every monetizing Shorts creator. A few things earn nothing: unoriginal Shorts such as unedited clips or reuploads, fake views, and Shorts over one minute that carry claimed content. One change is coming. From 1 February 2027, YouTube says a channel needs at least 10 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days, checked each month, to earn a share of Shorts ad revenue and Premium revenue that month. The eligibility check in the tool flags it. ## How to join the YouTube Partner Program There are two tiers, and both are on YouTube’s [How to earn money on YouTube](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72857) page: Tier Subscribers Views What it unlocks Fan funding 500 3 public uploads in 90 days, and 3,000 long-form watch hours in 365 days or 3 million Shorts views in 90 days Channel memberships (Super Chat, Super Stickers and Super Thanks have their own rules) Ad revenue 1,000 4,000 long-form watch hours in 365 days or 10 million Shorts views in 90 days Watch Page and Shorts Feed ad revenue You also need to be 18, or have a guardian over 18 who handles payments through AdSense for YouTube, live where the program is available, accept the contract modules and make advertiser-friendly content. YouTube reviews every channel before it gets in. YouTube also notes that YPP terms change on 1 February 2027 and must be accepted in YouTube Studio by 31 January 2027. Want more watch hours? A title is what a viewer reads before deciding to click. Check yours with the [YouTube title checker](https://hermoso.ai/tools/youtube-title-checker/), and see what Hermoso can do on [YouTube](https://hermoso.ai/channels/youtube/). ## TikTok money calculator TikTok pays creators for views through the Creator Rewards Program, at a rate it does not publish. To estimate it, take your own rate from a past payout: **rate = rewards paid ÷ qualified views × 1,000**. Then **rewards = qualified views ÷ 1,000 × that rate**. The calculator does both if you type a past payout and the qualified views it came from. TikTok’s [Creator Rewards Program page](https://www.tiktok.com/creator-academy/en/article/creator-rewards-program) (last updated 10 September 2026) says total rewards are a Standard Reward plus an Additional Reward for well-crafted, engaging and specialized videos, and gives no per-view figure for either. Rates people quote online come from their own accounts, at their own mix of countries and video quality, and yours will differ. Only qualified views count. TikTok defines them as: - watched for at least 5 seconds (30 seconds for views that come from search); - one view per account, however many times it rewatches; - not from someone who tapped “Not interested”, and not fraudulent or paid; - from one of the countries where the program runs. ## TikTok Creator Rewards Program: who qualifies From the same TikTok page, read in October 2026: - **Account:** at least 10,000 followers and 100,000 video views in the last 30 days, a personal account (not a business, government or political one) in good standing, and 18 or older. - **Country:** based in, and registered in, the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, South Korea, France, Mexico or Brazil. - **Videos:** original, over 1 minute long, with at least 1,000 views on the For You feed, and TikTok asks for 1080p or higher. Duets, Stitches, Photo Mode posts and ads or sponsored posts don’t earn. You apply in TikTok Studio, under Creator Rewards Program, and TikTok says it answers within three days. More on what we do on TikTok is on the [TikTok channel page](https://hermoso.ai/channels/tiktok/). ## Brand deals No platform sets the price of a sponsorship: you and the brand agree it. YouTube’s RPM leaves sponsorship money out, so the calculator adds it separately from the number of sponsored posts a month and your own fee per post. Sponsored posts on TikTok also don’t earn Creator Rewards. ## Why your estimate differs from your payout Even with your own RPM, the estimate and the money in your account will not match exactly. Here is why, mostly in YouTube’s and TikTok’s own words: - **Adjustments.** YouTube revises estimated revenue twice, after a week and in the middle of the next month, for invalid traffic, copyright claims and some ad campaign types. - **Payment timing and tax.** Finalized YouTube earnings land in AdSense for YouTube between the 7th and 12th of the next month, and tax withholding can lower them. TikTok says withdrawals are usually processed within 72 hours. - **Unmonetized views.** A view gets no ad when the video isn’t advertiser-friendly, no ad matches that viewer, the viewer has Premium, or they have recently seen one. Ad blockers cut ad views too. More unmonetized views pull RPM down even when revenue holds. - **Country and season.** Advertisers bid by country and spend more before holidays, so CPM, and with it RPM, moves when your audience or the calendar does. - **Format.** Long-form, Shorts and live streams each have their own RPM. When your mix of formats shifts, your overall RPM shifts with it. - **Niche.** Advertisers pay more to reach some audiences than others, so two channels with the same views can earn very different amounts. YouTube’s partner earnings page also says there are no guarantees about how much, or whether, you are paid. Treat the result as a projection from your own recent numbers. ## Grow the views behind the numbers Every line in the calculator scales with views, and views scale with how often you post. Hermoso runs your marketing on autopilot: it researches what is working in your niche, makes the videos, schedules them to YouTube and TikTok, and reads your channel analytics in one place. Publishing and scheduling cost no credits on any plan, and you can drive it from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor too. Free posts up to 5 times a month on 3 channels; unlimited posting starts on Basic at $19.99 a month. [Try it free in the web app](https://app.hermoso.ai/tools/clip-to-shorts?src=tool-youtube-money-calculator), or read how the [YouTube scheduler](https://hermoso.ai/youtube-scheduler/) and [TikTok scheduler](https://hermoso.ai/tiktok-scheduler/) work. **Free tools:** [YouTube title and tag checker](https://hermoso.ai/tools/youtube-title-checker/) · [YouTube thumbnail downloader](https://hermoso.ai/tools/youtube-thumbnail-downloader/) · [Engagement rate calculator](https://hermoso.ai/tools/engagement-rate-calculator/) ## Frequently asked questions ### How much does YouTube pay per 1,000 views? There is no fixed rate. What you earn per 1,000 views is your RPM, which YouTube Studio shows under Analytics, Revenue. It is counted after YouTube's share and includes views that showed no ad, so it varies a lot by niche, country, season and format. Multiply your views ÷ 1,000 by your RPM to estimate earnings. ### What percentage of ad revenue does YouTube give creators? Per YouTube Help, partners get 55% of net revenue from ads on their long-form videos (the Watch Page), 45% of the revenue allocated to them from the Shorts Creator Pool, and 70% of net revenue from memberships, Super Chat, Super Stickers and Super Thanks. ### How many subscribers do you need to get paid on YouTube? 1,000 subscribers plus 4,000 qualified long-form watch hours in the last 365 days, or 10 million Shorts views in the last 90 days, for ad revenue. A fan funding tier opens earlier, at 500 subscribers, 3 public uploads in 90 days, and 3,000 watch hours or 3 million Shorts views. ### What is the difference between RPM and CPM? CPM is what advertisers pay per 1,000 ad impressions, before YouTube's share, and only counts views that showed ads. RPM is what you earn per 1,000 views after YouTube's share, counting every view and every revenue source. RPM is always lower. ### How much does TikTok pay per 1,000 views? TikTok doesn't publish a rate. The Creator Rewards Program pays on qualified views of original videos over 1 minute, as a Standard Reward plus an Additional Reward for quality. Work out your own rate as rewards paid ÷ qualified views × 1,000, from a payout in TikTok Studio. ### How do I join the TikTok Creator Rewards Program? You need at least 10,000 followers and 100,000 video views in the last 30 days, a personal account in good standing, to be 18 or older, and to be based in the US, UK, Germany, Japan, South Korea, France, Mexico or Brazil. Apply in TikTok Studio under Creator Rewards Program. ### Why is my YouTube payout different from the estimate? Estimated revenue is adjusted twice for invalid traffic, copyright claims and some ad campaign types, finalized earnings arrive in AdSense for YouTube between the 7th and 12th of the next month, and tax withholding can reduce them. ### Does this calculator send my numbers anywhere? No. Everything is worked out in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to a server or stored, and the page has no rates of its own: every rate comes from you. Hermoso runs your marketing on autopilot, from the video itself to the post. Start free, 160 free credits, no card. [Start free →](https://app.hermoso.ai/tools/clip-to-shorts?src=tool-youtube-money-calculator) [See pricing](https://hermoso.ai/pricing)