How Much Can You Earn as a Skillshare Teacher In 2024?

If you are new to Skillshare and want an answer to the question, “How Much Money Can You Earn as a Skillshare Teacher?” Here are all the answers you are looking for. 

Essential Things To Remember: As an Educator on Skillshare

• Changes have been made in how you can earn as a teacher on Skillshare, effective 1 January 2024. Until December 2023, you received a share of the Skillshare Teacher Fund. However, now, you will be paid based on the percentage of revenue share earned by Skillshare based on watch time, engagements, referrals, and bonuses. 
• 20% of the total revenue earned by Skillshare is allocated to the teachers on Skillshare. 
• You will receive your monthly payment on the 16th of each month through Tipalti. If the day is a holiday or weekend, you will receive the payment the next business day. 
• You can choose payment options for the Tipalti payment: PayPal/ Direct deposit / ACH / E-check/ Prepaid debit card/ Intercash/ Wire transfer. While Skillshare has no extra charges for PayPal and Direct deposits, it charges a processing tax for Intercash and wire transfers. 
• To earn from all classes/courses you post combined on Skillshare, you need at least 75 minutes of watchtime per month. 
• Trailers do not count in watch time. 
• Watch time by people in their free trial or access from free links does not count toward your revenue earnings. 
• You can track your Teacher Stats Dashboard earnings on your Skillshare account. 

Keeping these essential things in mind, let’s move on to how you earn on Skillshare as a teacher. 

How Do Instructors Earn on Skillshare?

According to some reports by Skillshare, teachers can earn between $200 to $3,000 per month, with the top-earning teachers making more than $100,000 per year. 

Teachers are paid monthly for the minutes people watch their classes and typically earn between $0.05 and $0.10 per minute. But how are the earnings calculated? 

Royalties on Classes Based on Watch Time 

Teachers on Skillshare are paid based on their students’ time watching their classes each month. 

For instance, if each student watches your classes for 10 minutes and you have around 1,000 students, the total watch time is 10,000 minutes. Based on their payout range of $0.05 and $0.10 per minute, you could earn between $500 and $1,000. 

Now, you can publish one class on Skillshare that is long enough or make a channel and publish multiple engaging videos for your students.  

The best part is that since this is royalty-based, you do not have to post regularly. You will be paid every time a new user watches your class, even if you last posted new courses long ago. 

Teacher Bonuses Based on Engagement

One of the best things about being paid by Skillshare is that you get bonuses for every positive review you get on your course. Now, what exactly is a positive review? It means a rating of expectation being met or exceeding it. 

And no, a negative rating does not affect your monthly earnings. Suppose you have at least one positive course review in one month. In that case, you can automatically receive a reward of $250 (Top Teachers) or $100 (Rising Teachers) on your next monthly payment. You will also receive an email with confirmation of this payment. 

Referral

There are two ways to earn with referral links on Skillshare. You get a unique referral link for every class you post, but you also have a general referral link that you can promote on social media or anywhere else. 

For every new user that subscribes using your links, here is how much you earn:

1. For any user subscribing to an annual plan with your referral link, you get 60% of their subscription fees for the first year they are on Skillshare. 
2. For every user who subscribes to a monthly plan with your referral link, you get 60% of the subscription fees for the first 12 months that they are on Skillshare. 

How Much Money Can You Earn on Skillshare (With Examples)?

Now that you know how much you can earn as a teacher on Skillshare, here are some examples of teachers and their earnings. 

Art by Louise

Louise is an artist and Skillshare instructor who has posted her earnings journey over her first six months on the platform on a YouTube video available online. In her video, we see that she earned $45 from her first two classes on Skillshare, but over time, in February 2022, her earnings increased significantly. By March 21, 2022, her total earnings had reached $1190. Her earnings were significantly boosted after she promoted her courses on YouTube and increased the number of active followers on Skillshare.

YouTube Influencing by Josiah Brooks

Josiah Brooks, widely known as Jazza, is another example of a successful teacher on Skillshare. As a seasoned YouTuber and Skillshare instructor, Josiah discloses his impressive earnings of $47,440 annually, earned solely through royalties without any referral bonuses on a YouTube video posted online. Josiah’s flagship course, “How to Stand Out and Make Money on YouTube,” has a total enrollment of 14,500 students, from which, in total, he earned $2000/month in that year.

Conclusion 

How much money can you earn as a Skillshare Teacher? It depends on the number of students enrolled in your course and the total monthly watch time of all students combined with all your available courses on Skillshare. If you have 1000 students enrolled in your course on Skillshare, you can expect an average earning of $500- $1000/month. 

That is it, my friends, until next time,

Happy Teaching!!!

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