YouTuber’s $4.79 Million Income Breakdown

Ali Abdaal has 2.5 million subscribers on YouTube and recently revealed his earnings from 15 different income streams in 2021…

Not including his offline income – eg. working at a hospital, real estate earnings – here’s the breakdown…

• Twitch streaming – $92
• Mentor for online course – $1000
• Nebula streaming – $6,478
• Podcast sponsorships – $26,750
• Freetrade investments (including free shares awarded for referrals) – $14,860
• Vanguard investments (including returns pre-2021) – $38,172
• Charles Stanley investments (including returns pre-2021) – $77,174
• 2 book deals – +$100,000 each
• Crypto investing – $132,377
• Affiliate marketing – $208,201
• YouTube ads – $372,900
• Sponsorships and brand deals – $432,000
• Skillshare courses (royalties + affiliate) – $716,691
• Part-Time YouTuber Academy (Ali’s own course) – $2,595,306

His total revenue = $4.79 million, about $3.5 million more than he earned the previous year 💰

Some notes:

• Ali started working online at age 13, and it was 7 years before his first business success.
• His first video was posted in 2016, and he made almost nothing his first year on YouTube…

• He now has 17 full-time staff, 4-5 part-time staff, and a bunch of contractors.
• The breakdown above doesn’t include some of Ali’s earnings in Nov/Dec 2021.

Ali has another video breaking down his expenses for 2021, including more than $500,000 spent on salaries and wages…

From the comments on that video:

Your revenue is $4.79M and expenses is around $1.5M. The before tax profit is $3.29M so after UK corporate tax (20%), you made roughly $2.6M in total net profit after-tax. I’m not sure if its accurate but that’s a 55% after-tax net profit margin which is incredible.