HOT TAKE for people who don’t think YouTube is a real job or hard work… (Bookmark these stats) The average working class credit tends to spend 5-10 hours on their work per video. For a fair rate in that effort $150-$250 would be break even. The average RPM (revenue per thousand views) across most niches that aren’t finance or that don’t make extremely long content with a ton of ads (Minecraft) is about $3 per 1000 views Which means the average YouTuber has to make roughly 50,000 to 100,000 views per video of break even in labor cost alone for what they do. Even with a $10 RPM (like mine) it’s 10K to 20K views to break even on a basic standard rate for editing and production labor at the lowest ethical rates for that work. 88% of all videos uploaded never get 1000 views on YouTube. 2% get 1000-10,000 views 1% get 10,000 to 100,000 views 90% of all views go to the top 3% of all channels worldwide. Over 65% of all traffic goes to overseas non English content… The average Youtube channel takes 5 years to become profitable. Which means operating at a loss for those 5 years. The average creator uploads 500 videos before they become successful. For reference @MrBeast made 460 videos to get to just 10,000 subscribers. And his first 100 videos got him to less than 800 subscribers and he was making on average $1 a day. The average sunk cost of 1 year of weekly uploads to YouTube is $6250-$12,500 not counting expenses, and only labor costs. In a 5 year attempt it’s $30,000 to $60,000 on opportunity cost, $15,000 to $30,000 if you want to downplay opportunity cost to minimum wage part time work equivalent. This is just production and editing and doesn’t account for graphic design, script writing or research. Or investments in hardware, software or learning. And this is just for someone with the minimum viable level of technical skill and knowledge and being an entertainer. If someone has a specialty such as bringing a trade skill or white collar profession to YouTube their opportunity cost in labor and time is significantly more, a minimum of 2x to 3x more. It’s cute to say YouTube isn’t a real job, and Big Creators have to say everyone has it harder to them and the job is fun and easy, so people think they are humble and don’t cancel them… The OBJECTIVE TRUTH by the numbers is that if you think it’s so easy to Make Money doing it… You should quit your job now and do it then, or you don’t know what you’re talking about…