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Type your paying subscribers and monthly price, then your monthly tips, paid messages and one-off sales.
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Free Creator Earnings CalculatorWhat you keep after platform fees and tax.
Enter your subscribers, price, tips and sales to see your gross, the platform fee, other fees, a tax set-aside and your take-home per month and per year.
Set an income goal to see how many subscribers or what price you need. Everything is calculated on your device.
Platform fee presetsTax set-asideIncome goal mode
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Income per month
Total per month
Total per month
Fees
The share the platform keeps from each payment. Pick a platform above or type your own.
More fees (tips, processing)
Only if the platform charges tips differently. Leave empty to use the platform fee.
A percentage of every payment (for example card processing), plus an optional fixed amount on each subscription payment.
Tax
Your own estimate of the share to put aside for income tax and similar charges. It is not tax advice: rates depend on where you live and your total income.
Take-home per month
$11,151.36 a year · from $1,548.80 gross a month
- Gross per month
- $1,548.80
- Platform fee
- $309.76
- Other fees
- $0.00
- Tax set-aside
- $309.76 25% of what is left after fees
- Take-home per month
- $929.28
- Take-home per year
- $11,151.36
- Net per subscriber
- $5.99 What one subscription payment leaves you
- Take-home$929.2860%
- Platform fee$309.7620%
- Tax set-aside$309.7620%
An estimate for planning. Platform fees are taken from each payment; processing fees are taken from the same payment amount; the tax set-aside is your rate on what is left. Real payouts also depend on refunds, chargebacks, currency conversion, app-store purchases and your local tax rules.
Calculated on your device. What you type is not sent anywhere.
THREE SIMPLE STEPS
How to work out your take-home as a creator
Set the fees and tax
Pick a platform or type its fee, add processing fees if you pay them, and enter the share you put aside for tax.
Read the result
See your take-home per month and per year, or switch to Income goal to see the subscribers or price you need.
Worked examples
Subscriptions plus extras
120 subscribers at $9.99, $150 in tips and $200 in paid messages a month, a 20% platform fee and 25% put aside for tax.
- Gross = 120 × 9.99 + 150 + 200 = $1,548.80.
- Platform fee = 20% × 1,548.80 = $309.76, leaving $1,239.04.
- Tax set-aside = 25% × 1,239.04 = $309.76.
Take-home: $929.28 a month, $11,151.36 a year.
Fees plus processing
200 members at $5 a month, a 10% platform fee, 2.9% + $0.30 processing per payment and 20% for tax.
- Gross = 200 × 5 = $1,000.00; platform fee = $100.00.
- Processing = 2.9% × 1,000 + 200 × 0.30 = $89.00, leaving $811.00.
- Tax set-aside = 20% × 811.00 = $162.20.
Take-home: $648.80 a month, about $3.24 per member.
An income goal
You want $3,000 a month at $9.99 per subscriber, with $120 in tips, a 20% fee and 25% for tax.
- The tips leave 120 × 0.8 × 0.75 = $72.00.
- Each subscription leaves $5.99, so you need (3,000 − 72) ÷ 5.99 = 488.8, rounded up.
489 subscribers, for $3,003.07 take-home a month.
How the take-home is calculated
gross = subscribers × price + tips + messages + salesafter fees = gross − platform fee % × gross − other fee % × gross − fixed fee × subscriberstake-home = after fees × (1 − tax rate)Platforms and payment processors charge on the payment amount, so both percentages are taken from the gross, not one after the other. The tax set-aside is applied last, to what is left after fees.
Each line is rounded to the cent (or your currency's smallest unit) once, and a fee never takes more than the payment it is charged on.
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Creator Earnings Calculator FAQ
How are the fees applied?
The platform fee is a percentage of each payment: subscriptions, tips, paid messages and sales. Processing fees are a percentage of the same payment amount, plus an optional fixed amount on each subscription payment. Both are taken from the gross, then the tax set-aside is worked out on what is left.
Where do the platform fees in the list come from?
Each preset was read on the platform's own terms or help page on the date shown, and the source is linked next to the fee. Platforms change their fees and some plans depend on when you joined, so check the platform's current rules. If your platform is not listed, type its fee.
Is the tax set-aside my real tax?
No. It is a rate you choose to plan with, not tax advice. What you owe depends on where you live, your other income, allowances and deductible costs, and creators are often taxed as self-employed. A tax professional or your tax office can tell you what applies to you.
How does the income goal mode work?
Enter the take-home you want per month and choose whether to work out the number of subscribers (at your price) or the price (for your subscribers). The calculator finds the smallest number or price that reaches the goal with your other income, fees and tax rate, and shows the take-home it gives.
Why can my payout differ from the result?
Refunds, chargebacks, currency conversion, payout fees, app-store purchases with their own fees, holding periods and taxes withheld by a platform all change what reaches your bank. Use the result as a planning estimate.
Is it free and private?
Yes. It is free with no sign-up, it calculates in your browser, and nothing you type is sent anywhere. Your numbers are only saved in your own browser for next time.
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