YouTube Earnings Calculator: How Much Can a YouTube Make (2026)
Enter your property type, monthly visitors, niche and audience location and see what display ads, affiliate marketing, sponsorships, memberships, digital products and every other method would typically earn per month, with the networks that accept a site your size.
Enter your monthly traffic to get an estimate.
Highest-earning methods per 1,000 visitors (US, general niche)
- Paid newsletters: $150-600 per 1,000 visitors
- SaaS & micro-saas subscriptions: $40-400 per 1,000 visitors
- Coaching, consulting & services: $50-400 per 1,000 visitors
- Online courses & cohorts: $30-300 per 1,000 visitors
- Job board postings: $30-250 per 1,000 visitors
- List rental & dedicated sends: $60-250 per 1,000 visitors
- Podcast sponsorships & host-read ads: $60-200 per 1,000 visitors
- Paid webinars, workshops & events: $20-200 per 1,000 visitors
How the calculator works
Every method in the directory carries a typical RPM range: what it earns per 1,000 visitors for a US-heavy audience in a general niche, set by the editors from published network averages, publisher case studies and our own sites. The calculator multiplies that by your traffic, then by a niche multiplier (finance 2.4x, gaming 0.7x, adult 0.4x...) and a geography multiplier (mixed worldwide 0.55x, mostly Asia / LATAM / Africa 0.25x). Methods that do not depend on where the reader lives, such as selling your own products, skip the geography adjustment. It cannot know your layout, your content or your season, so treat the result as the middle of a wide range.