How Much Do YouTube Shorts Pay

One million YouTube Shorts views will make you roughly this much money…

YouTube Shorts : Source — here

The new YouTube Shorts monetization features have been in effect since February 1, 2023. YouTube announced them late last year.

Not surprisingly, people started speculating about the riches they will accumulate from it :

Speculative stories on making money from YouTube Shorts : screenshot by author

People did the same when Quora introduced its writer program.

All speculation.

YouTube Shorts is paying roughly $0.04 ~ $0.12 per thousand views for monetized shorts.

Screenshot from authors own channel

So, one can earn roughly $40 ~ $120 per million views from monetized shorts.

Note: RPM might be less than $0.04 ~ $0.12; depends on the location of your audience.