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YouTube Money Calculator: Earnings by Country, Niche and RPM
This YouTube money calculator estimates what your views can earn based on where your audience lives and your niche. You get a range from a low to a high RPM, never one magic number.
Monthly earnings (rough range)
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–Per day
–Per year
–RPM (per 1,000 views)
–Per 1 million views
–With your actual RPM, per month
The source has few channels in this niche: treat it with extra caution.
A rough range, not a promise, based on public 2024 to 2026 data (IsThisChannelMonetized and AIR Media-Tech). Long-form videos only.
Source data is in US dollars; other currencies use the ECB reference rate of 10/21/2026 (€1 = $1.1234). A month counts as 30 days.
Everything is calculated in your browser: nothing is saved or sent.
YouTube doesn’t pay per view: it gives you a share of what advertisers pay to run ads on your videos. That’s why this YouTube earnings calculator shows a range, driven mainly by where your audience lives and your niche.
How to use the YouTube revenue calculator
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Enter your views
Per day or per month, straight from YouTube Studio. If you pick “per day,” the calculator counts 30-day months.
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Pick where most of your audience lives
You’ll find it in the audience tab of YouTube Studio. Choose “World” if your viewers are spread out.
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Pick your niche
Education, entertainment, gaming, tech, finance and six more. A few have small samples, and the calculator flags them.
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If you already earn, add your real RPM
It’s in the revenue tab of YouTube Studio. You get your exact figure next to the rough range, so it doubles as a YouTube RPM calculator.
What the calculator counts: RPM, CPM and the 55% share
CPM is what advertisers pay per 1,000 ad impressions. RPM is what you earn per 1,000 views of your video, after YouTube’s cut. Creators keep 55% of net ad revenue on their long-form videos, according to the YouTube partner earnings overview. On Shorts, it’s 45% of their share of the creator pool.
| Difference | YouTube CPM | YouTube RPM |
|---|---|---|
| What it measures | What the advertiser pays | What you earn |
| Per 1,000 | Ad impressions | Video views |
| YouTube’s share | Before | After |
| Includes | Ads only | Ads, Premium, memberships and Super Chat |
That’s how YouTube Help explains RPM. Since not every view shows an ad, RPM usually sits well below CPM. The math is simple: earnings = views × RPM ÷ 1,000.
YouTube ad revenue calculator: rough RPM by country and niche
The calculator multiplies two numbers. First, the country’s median CPM (IsThisChannelMonetized, 2024 videos, published by Digital Information World in August 2025). Second, each niche’s RPM-to-CPM ratio, from the low to the high quartile (AIR Media-Tech, 300 channels, May 2025 to May 2026). These are the rough ranges it gives:
| Audience and niche | Rough RPM (per 1,000 views) |
|---|---|
| United States, education & science | $4.67 to $39.43 |
| United States, entertainment | $2.64 to $15.07 |
| United States, gaming | $2.07 to $10.68 |
| United States, tech & gadgets | $1.46 to $7.74 |
| United Kingdom, entertainment | $1.68 to $9.59 |
| World, entertainment | $0.64 to $3.67 |
Country and niche matter far more than subscribers. The top of the education range is driven by a few very high earners in the source data, so treat it as a ceiling, not a target.
Highest paying YouTube niches: rough RPM for 11 niches
Education and science tops the calculator’s data at both ends. These are the ranges for a US audience, per 1,000 long-form views, ranked by the top of the range (AIR Media-Tech, May 2025 to May 2026).
| Niche | Rough RPM |
|---|---|
| Education & science | $4.67 to $39.43 |
| Entertainment | $2.64 to $15.07 |
| Crafts & DIY | $3.49 to $13.63 |
| Business & finance | $1.80 to $12.76 |
| Music | $3.98 to $12.27 |
| Lifestyle | $3.98 to $11.77 |
| Gaming | $2.07 to $10.68 |
| Food & cooking | $4.44 to $9.20 |
| Tech & gadgets | $1.46 to $7.74 |
| Kids | $1.20 to $6.61 |
| Health & fitness | $2.43 to $5.16 |
Finance, the usual guess for the top spot, lands fourth, and its sample is small: the source has fewer than 10 channels in finance and in food, so the calculator flags both. Don’t pick a niche by RPM alone. A modest niche with an audience beats a rich one nobody watches.
YouTube earnings calculator by channel name: estimate any channel
This calculator doesn’t search by channel name, and no outside tool can see another creator’s real revenue. Only the owner does, in YouTube Studio. You can still estimate any channel from public numbers:
- Average the views of its latest 10 long videos, on the Videos tab.
- Multiply by how many videos it posts a month.
- Guess the audience country from the language of the videos and comments.
- Pick the closest niche and enter the three numbers above.
A made-up example: a US cooking channel posts 8 videos a month and averages 50,000 views. That’s 400,000 views, or $1,775 to $3,680 a month.
Keep it rough. Older videos add views you didn’t count, but Shorts views and views without ads inflate the number, and sponsorships or memberships never show. Any estimator for other people’s channels starts from the same public views.
Three examples with the YouTube income calculator
- Cooking, US audience, 50,000 views a month: $222 to $460 a month.
- Tech, UK audience, 300,000 views a month: $279 to $1,476 a month.
- Gaming, audience in India, 1,000,000 views a month: $166 to $858 a month. Twenty times the views of the cooking channel and, at the low end, less money.
Not monetized yet? Mark February 1, 2027. Per YouTube Help, new channels will need 1,000 subscribers plus 8,000 watch hours in 365 days, or 20 million Shorts views in 90 days. And earning from the Shorts Creator Pool will require holding 10 million Shorts views over 90 days.
That’s ads only. For the requirements, payouts and what a million views earns, read our guide on how much YouTube pays per view. If you also post short video, see how to make money on TikTok. To check whether your audience responds, try the engagement rate calculator, and find more in our free marketing tools.
Frequently asked questions about the YouTube money calculator
How many YouTube views do I need to make $2,000 a month?
Divide your target by your RPM and multiply by 1,000. With a US audience and an entertainment channel, the calculator’s RPM range of $2.64 to $15.07 means roughly 133,000 to 757,000 long-form views a month. With a global audience the number climbs fast, because RPM drops. If you already earn, use your real RPM from YouTube Studio: it turns that range into a single, honest target.
Can 500 subscribers make money?
Yes, but not from ads yet. With 500 subscribers plus 3,000 watch hours in the past year or 3 million Shorts views in 90 days, you can apply for the first tier of the YouTube Partner Program. It unlocks channel memberships, Super Chat, Super Thanks and YouTube Shopping. Ad revenue sharing, which is what this calculator estimates, needs the full tier, and its bar for new channels rises in 2027.
How much money is 40,000 views on YouTube?
For long-form videos with a US audience in entertainment, the calculator gives about $106 to $603 for 40,000 views. With a worldwide audience in the same niche, it’s closer to $26 to $147. Same views, very different money: country and niche move the result far more than your subscriber count. Shorts views pay differently, so don’t mix them into this number.
Does YouTube pay for 500k views?
Yes, if your channel is in the full YouTube Partner Program and the views come with ads. For 500,000 long-form views, the calculator gives about $1,321 to $7,536 with a US audience in entertainment, and about $322 to $1,835 with a worldwide audience. The gap comes from where viewers live and what advertisers pay there. Shorts views pay far less, so leave them out of that count.
What is YouTube RPM by country?
It’s your revenue per 1,000 views split by where viewers live, and it varies a lot because advertisers pay more to reach some markets. In the data behind this calculator, the median ad CPM is $11.95 in the US, $7.60 in the UK and $0.96 in India. You can see your own split in YouTube Studio’s revenue reports by geography, then pick your main country here.