YouTube Shorts earnings calculator
Enter your views and the Shorts RPM range from your own YouTube Analytics. The calculator applies YouTube’s published eligibility rules and shows the arithmetic — it does not guess an RPM for you.
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Enter your RPM range to see an estimate. The platforms do not publish one, so the calculator does not assume one.
Planning estimate only — not a payout forecast. Example audience numbers are placeholders; replace them with your own. Taxes, withholding, and payment fees are not included.
How Shorts revenue sharing works
- Ad revenue from ads shown between Shorts in the feed is pooled each month, per country.
- Part of the pool covers music licensing: for a Short with one track, half of its allocation goes to the Creator Pool and half to music costs.
- The Creator Pool is split between monetizing creators by their share of eligible engaged views in each country.
- Monetizing creators keep 45% of their allocated revenue, whether or not music was used.
- Partner Program entry: 1,000 subscribers plus either 10,000,000 qualified Shorts views in 90 days or 4,000 public long-form watch hours in 12 months.
- From February 1, 2027, YouTube Help says: “to be eligible to earn a share of Shorts ad revenue from the Creator Pool and YouTube Premium revenue for each month, you will need to have at least 10 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days.” Joining through long-form watch hours alone does not earn Shorts revenue under that rule, so the calculator checks the Shorts-views threshold only.
Why you enter the RPM
YouTube does not publish a Shorts RPM. It depends on where your viewers are, advertiser demand in your niche, the season, and how many of your Shorts use licensed music. The Shorts feed RPM in your YouTube Analytics revenue report is already after the 45% share and is spread across all Shorts views, so the calculator applies it to your total monthly Shorts views. If you are not monetized yet, try a low and a high guess and treat the result as a range, not a forecast.
FAQ
- How much does YouTube pay per 1,000 Shorts views?
- YouTube does not publish a rate. Each channel’s Shorts RPM depends on audience country, niche, season, and music use. Your own Analytics revenue report is the only reliable number.
- Do all Shorts views earn money?
- YouTube calculates payments on eligible engaged views, not every counted view. Your Shorts feed RPM already reflects that, because it divides your Shorts revenue by all Shorts views — so apply it to total views, not a subset.
- What does 45% revenue share mean for Shorts?
- After the music-licensing portion is removed, the pooled revenue allocated to your channel is split 45% to you and 55% to YouTube.
- How many views do I need to monetize Shorts?
- To join the Partner Program: 1,000 subscribers plus 10 million qualified Shorts views in 90 days or 4,000 long-form watch hours in 12 months. From February 1, 2027, earning Shorts revenue in a given month also requires 10 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days.