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YouTube Shorts earnings calculator

Your monthly Shorts views times your RPM: an estimate of what Shorts could pay you.

Shorts views a monthRPM (US$ per 1,000 views)Shorts RPM depends on your viewers’ countries and your niche, and is often a few cents per 1,000 views. YouTube Studio shows your real one under Analytics › Revenue.

Estimated per month

$50.00

Estimated per year

$600.00

An estimate from the numbers you enter, not a promise: YouTube decides what each view earns.

Before Shorts pay: the YouTube Partner Program

To earn from Shorts ads a channel needs 1,000 subscribers and 10 million valid public Shorts views in the last 90 days (or 4,000 public watch hours in the last 12 months), and has to be accepted. Creators then get 45% of the Shorts ad revenue allocated to their views.

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How the estimate works

1
Your views
How many views your Shorts get in a month.
2
Your RPM
What you earn per 1,000 views after YouTube’s share. Take it from YouTube Studio if you have it.
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The math
Views ÷ 1,000 × RPM, for a month and for a year.

Questions

How much does YouTube pay for 1 million Shorts views?

It is your RPM times 1,000: at US$0.05 per 1,000 views, about US$50. Your own RPM can be well above or below that.

What is RPM?

Revenue per mille: what you earn for every 1,000 views, after YouTube’s share. It is different from CPM, which is what advertisers pay.

Do AI or faceless Shorts get paid?

Yes, if the channel is accepted into the Partner Program. Channels built on repetitive or reused content are the ones YouTube turns down; our free monetization checker looks for exactly that.