What creators actually keep.
Revenue figures read from the YouTube Studio screens creators showed on camera, and what remains after tax in the US, UK, Canada, Germany and India.
Background: an illustration, not a creator’s screen.
Every figure links to the moment it appeared on screen.
Software reads the YouTube Studio cards creators show in their own videos. Nothing is typed in by hand, and each number keeps its timestamp, the period it covers and the currency the screen showed. Every revenue figure is the “Estimated revenue” YouTube Studio displays, not a payout.
How the data is made- 202
- figures read from Studio screens
- 6
- creators who showed their dashboards
- 66
- figures matched to a second on-screen figure or sum
Latest income reports
Travis Nicholson
How Much YouTube Pays My Small Channel in 2026
$1,239.25
Studio’s estimated revenue, Jan 1 – Jun 26, 2026
Read from the screen, matched to a second on-screen figure
Liza
How Much Youtube Paid Me My First 6 Months Being Monetized With Only 7k Subscribers
$620.29
Studio’s estimated revenue, Jan 3, 2025 – Mar 21, 2026 · Lifetime
Read from the screen
Elise Poret
**realistic** HOW MUCH YOUTUBE PAID ME MY FIRST MONTH MONETIZED IN 2026 (as a small creator)
$41.70
Studio’s estimated revenue, Oct 27, 2025 – Jan 24, 2026 · Last 90 days
Read from the screen, matched to a second on-screen figure
Emily Elizabeth
How Much I Make on YouTube With Under 10K Subscribers | Real Numbers + Strategy
$3,712.49
Studio’s estimated revenue, Aug 26, 2020 – Jan 7, 2026 · Lifetime
Read from the screen
Allie Ostrander
How Much YouTube Actually Paid Me in 2025 || my exact income & analytics
$119,089.17
Studio’s estimated revenue, Aug 26, 2015 – Dec 30, 2025
Read from the screen; two on-screen figures disagree, left as shown
Reno James
How much YouTube pays me for 10,000 subscribers...
$610.82
Studio’s estimated revenue, Mar 10 – Jun 7, 2025 · Last 90 days
Read from the screen, matched to a second on-screen figure
What stays after tax, country by country.
One mid-range example per country: a creator filing alone, with no other income, under 2026 rules, worked bracket by bracket by the calculator's engine.
India
keeps ₹55,00,800 of ₹60,00,000
92%
United States
keeps $47,963 of $60,000
80%
United Kingdom
keeps £46,111 of £60,000
77%
Canada
keeps C$64,627 of C$90,000
72%
Germany
keeps €37,714 of €60,000
63%
Table view
| Country | Kept | Example |
|---|---|---|
| India | 92% | keeps ₹55,00,800 of ₹60,00,000 |
| United States | 80% | keeps $47,963 of $60,000 |
| United Kingdom | 77% | keeps £46,111 of £60,000 |
| Canada | 72% | keeps C$64,627 of C$90,000 |
| Germany | 63% | keeps €37,714 of €60,000 |
How five channels became businesses.
Evidence-based breakdowns of the revenue systems behind well-known channels, built from what each creator has published about their own business.
Ali Abdaal
Audience-to-Product Revenue Ladder
How free videos became the distribution layer for courses, tools, publishing and higher-commitment offers.
Kurzgesagt
Research-to-Product Flywheel
Research, audience trust, products, patrons and production partners reinforcing one another.
Fireship
Channel-to-Company Consolidation
Outside investment, a merger and full-time hiring turned a coding channel into a company.
Neural Viz
One-Person AI Production Loop
AI limitations turned into a repeatable system for characters, performance and worldbuilding.
Two Minute Papers
Credibility-to-Funding Loop
A decade of paper-anchored episodes made credibility the asset every monetization surface depends on.
Published by one person, with every figure tied to its source.
TakeHomeHub is written and maintained by Seokyoung Oh, an independent publisher in South Korea. Every revenue figure is read from a creator’s own screen and linked to the moment it appears. Every tax figure cites the official source and the year it applies to.
The publisher is not a tax professional, and nothing here is advice. Creators can ask for their figures to be removed at any time.