Clipping income

Clipper earnings after fees and tax.

Views times pay per 1,000 is only the start. Enter your own campaign terms and this takes off rejected clips, caps, fees, tools and US self-employment tax, then divides by every hour. Runs in your browser; nothing is sent or stored.

Take-home = (payable views / 1,000 x pay per 1,000, capped) x paid clips - fee - tools - self-employment tax - income tax set-aside. Example with placeholder inputs: 5 clips a week, 5,000 views, 10% unpayable views, 20% rejected, $1.00 per 1,000 and a 10% fee leaves $70.20 a month before tax and about $53 after, for roughly 22 hours of work.

Your assumptions

Clips you post per week

Average (median) views per clip

Views that do not count as payable (assumption)

Clips that are rejected and unpaid (assumption)

Campaign pay per 1,000 payable views (example 1.00; use your campaign terms)

Per-clip cap (0 = none)

Campaign budget you can still draw from this month (0 = not limited)

Platform fee on your pay (0 unless your terms state one)

Payout hold or review days (affects cash timing only)

Tool and subscription costs per month

Hours per clip (find, edit, post, admin)

Other clipping hours per week (applying, tracking)

Income tax rate to set aside (your estimate)

Optional: monthly take-home target

Apply US self-employment tax (Schedule SE basis)

Every number here is yours to set. The $1.00 rate, the percentages and the target are placeholders so the page works on load; they are not typical or expected figures. Replace them with the terms of the campaign in front of you.

Result

Worked example

Placeholder inputs: 5 clips per week (21.67 a month), 5,000 average views, 10% of views not payable (4,500 payable), $1.00 per 1,000, 20% of clips rejected, no cap, a 10% platform fee, 1 hour per clip, 10% income tax set-aside and self-employment tax on.

Each paid clip is 4,500 / 1,000 x $1.00 = $4.50. 21.67 clips x 80% paid = 17.33 paid clips, so gross is $78.00. The 10% fee is $7.80, leaving $70.20. Annualised that is $842.40; 92.35% of it is $777.93, over the $400 filing trigger, so self-employment tax at 15.3% is about $119.02 a year, or $9.92 a month. Income tax set-aside at 10% is $7.02. Take-home is about $53.26 for 21.67 hours: about $2.46 an hour. The same clips with a $5.00 rate would change that picture entirely, which is the point: type your own terms and see.

Methodology

Per clip, payable views = views x (1 - unpayable %). Pay per clip = payable views / 1,000 x your rate, limited by your per-clip cap if you set one. Paid clips = clips x (1 - rejected %). Gross = pay per clip x paid clips, limited by the campaign budget you say is left. Fee = gross x fee %. Net before tax = gross - fee - tool costs.

Self-employment tax follows IRS Schedule SE: if annual net self-employment earnings (net x 92.35%) are $400 or more, tax is 12.4% Social Security up to the annual wage base ($184,500 for 2026) plus 2.9% Medicare. Because the $400 test and wage base are annual, the page projects the month to twelve months, assumes the same month repeats, and divides back. Income tax is a flat set-aside percentage you choose; the half-of-SE-tax deduction, the Additional Medicare Tax and brackets are not modelled (use the 1099 set-aside calculator for those).

Hours = clips x hours per clip + other weekly hours, using 52/12 weeks a month. Take-home per hour = take-home / hours. The target solver searches clips per week until modelled take-home meets your target, and tells you when the inputs make it unreachable, for example when the budget or a $0 rate limits pay. Payout hold days only show when cash arrives; they do not change totals.

What this does not cover

Whether any campaign will accept you, approve your clips or keep paying; budgets can run out
Rates, view counts, rejection rates or fees: you supply all of them and none is a benchmark
Platform fees: Whop's content rewards help page does not state a creator fee, so the default is 0%. Enter one only if your own terms say so
Canadian, state, local, or non-US tax; the Additional Medicare Tax; deductions or credits; whether you must file
Currency conversion, payout processor fees, chargebacks or sales taxes
The chance that a clip goes viral. Views are one number you type, not a forecast

Results vary. This page does not know what you will earn. It does arithmetic on the numbers you type, and it is general information, not financial, tax or legal advice. Any rate shown in a field when the page loads is a placeholder example, not a typical or expected rate.

Sources (retrieved 2026-10)

Whop, YouTube, TikTok and other names are trademarks of their owners and are used only to describe how their programs are documented. TNAADO is not affiliated with them.

FAQ

How much do clippers make?

There is no reliable average and this page does not estimate one. Pay depends on the campaign rate, each clip's payable views, whether clips are approved, caps, fees and how many hours the work takes. Enter your own numbers to see the arithmetic.

Is clipping income taxable in the US?

Generally yes. Clip pay from campaigns is typically self-employment income, and net earnings of $400 or more trigger self-employment tax under IRS rules. This is general information, not tax advice; check IRS.gov or a tax professional.

Does Whop charge clippers a fee?

Whop's content rewards help page, retrieved 2026-10, describes rate, minimum, cap, budget and approval and does not state a creator fee. This calculator therefore defaults the fee to 0% and lets you enter any fee your own terms state.

Why is my true hourly rate so low?

Unpaid hours (finding sources, editing, rejected clips, tracking) count against the same pay. Low-view clips earn little per hour of work. The calculator shows take-home divided by all hours.

How many clips per week do I need for a target?

Enter a monthly take-home target. The page solves for clips per week and the hours that implies, or tells you the target is unreachable at your inputs.