This YouTube money calculator turns monthly views into an earnings range using measured RPM by niche and country, with Shorts and long-form kept apart. A long-form education channel with 100,000 views a month lands around $231 to $1,950, while the same views on Shorts earn a small fraction of that.
Pick your format, niche and main audience, then enter monthly views. The estimate updates as you type.
An existing English documentary example showing narration, deep-sea illustrations, and captions together. Use it to compare pacing and visual structure before planning your own video.
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Shorts and long-form pay very differently. If your channel posts both, run the calculator once for each and add the results.
Advertisers pay more for some topics and some countries. Pick the niche closest to yours and the country most of your viewers come from (YouTube Studio shows this under Audience).
Use the views from a normal month in YouTube Studio. The range shows a weak month for that niche at the low end and a strong one at the high end.
RPM is what you keep per 1,000 views after YouTube takes its share, counting every view, including the ones that showed no ad. AIR Media-Tech measured 300 monetized channels from May 2025 to May 2026 and found an all-niche median of about $2.30. Education and science sat far above that at a $10.22 median, and kids content far below at $0.33.
Shorts revenue comes from ads shown between Shorts in the feed and is pooled, so each view is worth much less. In AIR's 274-channel Shorts study, most niches clustered at $0.07 to $0.20 per 1,000 views, about 3 to 14 percent of long-form RPM. Music was the outlier. Shorts still help a channel grow, and growth is what gets the long-form views.
The same video pays more when its viewers live in a big ad market. In AIR's 2025 country data, a US viewer was worth about $0.33 per 1,000 Shorts views, South Korea $0.19, Japan $0.14, Brazil $0.05 and India under a cent. Dynamoi's long-form data for the year to October 2026 shows the same order, with the US at $5.12, Japan at $2.60 and South Korea at $2.22.
Most channels that earn steadily post on a schedule. A faceless channel can do that without filming: write one idea, let FacelessGenie produce the script, voice, visuals and captions, and post the finished Short or long video. Start with one niche from the table, post for a few weeks, then compare your real RPM in YouTube Studio with the range here.
For long-form, measured medians run from about $0.33 (kids) to $10.22 (education and science), with most niches between $1.20 and $3.00 per 1,000 views. Shorts usually pay $0.07 to $0.20 per 1,000 views. Your own RPM in YouTube Studio is the only exact number.
It depends on niche and format. At a $2 to $5 long-form RPM you need roughly 200,000 to 500,000 views. On Shorts at $0.07 to $0.20 you need around 5 to 14 million views. The calculator shows this for your settings.
Some long-form channels earn about that, since $3 is close to the middle of many niches in AIR's data. Gaming and tech channels often sit lower, education channels often higher, and Shorts pay far less than $3.
It gives a range based on published, measured data, not a promise. Real earnings move with the season (Q4 pays more), video length, ad formats and how many viewers block ads. Use it to plan, then check your own RPM once you're monetized.
You need to join the YouTube Partner Program first. Ad revenue sharing starts at 1,000 subscribers plus either 4,000 public watch hours in the last 12 months or 10 million Shorts views in the last 90 days.