Teach Programing on YouTube Makes Less Than Mopping Toilets

By Xah Lee. Date: .

How much you make for creating programing tutorial on YouTube?

This guy, Derek Banas, has almost 1 million followers. He only makes less than $3k/month from YouTube ads. That's less than what you make if you mob toilets at McDonalds in California, USA.

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Derek Banas YouTube stat 2019-10-15. his site https://www.youtube.com/user/derekbanas

here's some of his popular videos:

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Derek Banas 2019-10-15

Another exapmle, of teaching tech channel:

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hak5 youtube stat 2019-10-15

How Much You Make for Teaching Programing?