Kick Earnings Calculator

Most Kick income comes from four streams: subscriptions, gifted subs, KICKs gifts, and tips — and this free calculator turns your own numbers into a monthly and yearly estimate using Kick’s documented 95/5 split. There’s no single “Kick streamer salary,” so the honest answer to “how much do Kick streamers make?” is: put in your numbers and see.

How does Kick’s subscription revenue split work?

Kick’s publicly documented split is 95/5: eligible creators keep 95% of subscription revenue and Kick keeps 5%, a cut that covers payment processing. On a $4.99 sub, that’s roughly $4.74 to the creator and about $0.25 to Kick. It’s one of the most creator-favorable splits in streaming — for comparison, the standard Twitch split is 50/50 and YouTube’s is 70/30. This is the one hard, platform-official number the calculator is built on (last verified August 2026).

Is a Kick sub $4.99 or $5.00?

You’ll see both in 2026. Kick’s Tier 1 subscription has been priced at $4.99, and some current help pages now list a flat $5.00, with higher tiers costing more. Prices can also vary by region. Rather than bake in one number and pretend it’s universal, the calculator defaults the sub price to $4.99 and lets you change it — set it to whatever your tier actually charges and the math updates instantly.

What are KICKs and how do gifts pay creators?

KICKs are Kick’s virtual goods: viewers buy them and use them to send on-stream Gifts. The same 95% creator share applies to KICKs and gifts as to subs. Two honesty notes matter here. First, Kick does not officially publish a fixed dollar value per KICK — community estimates hover around a cent each, but that’s not an official rate. Second, Kick’s own policy states KICKs have no cash value to the buyer. That’s why this tool asks for the dollar value of gifts you receive rather than a KICK count — so it never has to invent a conversion rate.

Do you really keep 100% of tips on Kick?

Yes. Under Kick’s documented terms, creators keep 100% of tips and donations — the 5% platform cut applies to subscriptions and gifts, not tips. That makes direct tipping one of the most efficient ways your community can support you, and it’s why the calculator applies no deduction to the tips line.

Does Kick pay streamers an hourly rate?

This is the most misunderstood part of Kick’s payouts, so here’s the careful version. In 2023, Kick ran a small pilot that paid about 50 hand-picked creators an hourly rate — but the platform never officially disclosed what that rate was. The widely repeated “$16 per hour” figure came from one creator’s own social post, not a Kick announcement, and the “$16–$32/hr” range you’ll see on other calculators comes from third-party sites, not Kick. The program that actually went wide, the Creator Incentive Program, pays a 95% revenue share — not a guaranteed hourly wage. The optional hourly box above exists because people search for it, but it’s clearly labelled as a community estimate, not a platform promise.

What do you need before you can earn on Kick?

To monetize, a channel generally needs to qualify for Kick’s Creator Incentive Program and complete payout setup (Stripe Connect). As indexed in 2026, the current published thresholds are on the order of an average of 75 concurrent viewers and 25 active subscriptions over the trailing 30 days, plus a complete profile and good standing under Kick’s guidelines. Some older articles quote heavier numbers from the 2023 pilot — those are outdated, so verify the current requirements on Kick’s help center before relying on them.

How accurate is this Kick earnings calculator?

It’s an estimate, and it’s only as good as the numbers you feed it. The 95/5 split and 100%-tips rule are real, documented platform terms; the sub price, gift value, and hourly range are variable and partly community-sourced, which is why they’re editable and labelled. Currency conversion, taxes, and any third-party fees aren’t modeled. Use it to sanity-check goals — “what would 250 subs plus $80 in gifts actually pay?” — not as a guaranteed paycheck.