Money per hour, daily gain and weekly gain
Money per hour is your speed and your balance is just a queue of unspent upgrades. Note the rate, buy, note it again — if it did not move, you bought the wrong category.
Money per hour is the most useful number in Become a Youtuber!, and the one most players ignore because it is smaller than their balance. It is also the only number that tells you whether you are getting better.
What the /hr number means
It is your income rate: how much the channel earns per hour of play, across global ad revenue, whatever is attached to your videos, and anything your gear has added. It is a speed, not a total.
That distinction matters because upgrades are bought with a balance but judged by a rate:
| Number | What it answers |
|---|---|
| Balance | What can I afford right now? |
| $/hr | Am I getting faster? |
| Daily gain | What did today add? |
| Weekly gain | How fast is the channel compounding? |
The upgrade test, again
- Note money per hour.
- Buy the upgrade.
- Note it again.
The same test works for passes, but the maths differs: a multiplier is an instruction to your future income, not to your current balance. That is why the 2x Money pass gets better the longer you hold it, and why the Double Views pass gets better the more videos you have already published.
Why the official art measures in per-hour terms
The game's own key art shows two channels side by side: a new one earning a few dollars per hour with double-digit subscribers, and an established one earning hundreds of thousands per hour with millions of subscribers. Per-hour earnings are the language the game uses to describe progress — the stats dashboard page covers the rest of the readouts.
Common misreads
- "My balance is huge, so I am rich." A balance is a queue of unspent upgrades. Spend it.
- "My /hr went down." Usually you spent on something cosmetic, or you are between trends. Check the trends page.
- "Percentages are better than rates." Percentages flatter small numbers. Rates do not.
