Free tool · Shorts earnings calculator
How much does YouTube pay for Shorts?
YouTube pays for Shorts from a shared ad pool, and creators commonly report roughly $0.01 to $0.30 per 1,000 views. At those rates 1 million Shorts views is roughly $10 to $300. Enter your views below: the RPM sliders are an assumption you can change, not a promise.
Engaged views for one Short, a month or any period you want to estimate.
Lowat US$0.03 per 1,000
US$30.00
Typicalat US$0.115 per 1,000
US$115
Highat US$0.20 per 1,000
US$200
An estimate, not a payout. YouTube decides the final amount, and it is shown in US dollars.
Who gets paid
You need to be in the YouTube Partner Program (1,000 subscribers plus 4,000 public watch hours in 12 months, or 1,000 subscribers plus 10 million qualified Shorts views in 90 days) and accept the Shorts Monetization Module. From 1 February 2027 YouTube also requires at least 10 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days to earn Shorts ad revenue for a month (YouTube Help).
How Shorts pay, and how to read the result
Each month YouTube adds up the money from ads shown between Shorts in the Shorts feed. Part of it pays for music: a Short with no music sends its whole share to the Creator Pool, a Short with one track sends half. The Creator Pool is split by each monetizing creator's share of engaged views in each country, and creators keep 45% of what is allocated to them (YouTube Help, "YouTube Shorts monetization policies").
This calculator skips the pool math and uses RPM, the revenue per 1,000 views you see in YouTube Studio, because that is the number creators compare. Low uses your lower slider, high your upper one, typical sits in the middle. Your real RPM depends mostly on where your viewers live and what advertisers pay in your topic.
Count engaged views, not the public counter. Since March 2025 the Shorts view counter counts every start and replay, while payouts are based on engaged views, so the number YouTube pays on is usually lower. For the full picture read how much YouTube Shorts pay.
Questions
- How much money is 1 million views on YouTube Shorts?
- Usually somewhere between $10 and $300, mostly depending on where your viewers are and your topic. At an RPM of $0.05, 1 million engaged views pays $50; at $0.20 it pays $200. YouTube Help walks through an example that ends at $405 for 1 million engaged views, but its numbers are made up to explain the math, not a rate.
- How much does YouTube pay per 1,000 Shorts views?
- There is no fixed rate. Creators commonly report roughly $0.01 to $0.30 per 1,000 views, and a 2026 dataset of 274 partner channels from AIR Media-Tech found most topics between $0.07 and $0.20. The RPM in your own YouTube Studio is the only number that is right for your channel.
- Why do Shorts pay less than long videos?
- A long video earns from ads placed in and around that video. Shorts earn from ads shown between videos in the feed, and that money is pooled and split across every monetizing creator by engaged views. There is less ad time per minute watched, so the rate per 1,000 views is lower.
- Do I need 10 million views to make money from Shorts?
- To join the YouTube Partner Program through Shorts you need 1,000 subscribers and 10 million qualified Shorts views in 90 days (the other path is 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 public watch hours in 12 months). YouTube Help also says that from 1 February 2027 a channel needs at least 10 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days to earn Shorts ad and Premium revenue for a month.
- Does music in my Short lower my earnings?
- Music changes how much money goes into the Creator Pool: a Short with one track sends half of its share to music licensing. YouTube Help says music use does not change how the Creator Pool is split between creators, and you keep 45% of your allocation either way.
- Is this calculator accurate?
- It is as accurate as the RPM you give it. The defaults are a planning assumption. Put in the RPM from your own YouTube Studio and the estimate fits your channel far better. The calculator runs in your browser and never sees your channel.
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