The model behind this calculator pays a sponsored TikTok post $10 to $20 per 1,000 followers and then scales that band by the creator's engagement against TikTok's 3.5 percent baseline. A creator at the median of the PlayerSells tracked TikTok catalog - 10,200 followers, measured across 10,803 tracked creators on 24 August 2026 - sitting exactly on that baseline is worth $102 to $204 for one sponsored post.
That median is a fact about our catalog rather than about TikTok. The catalog was seeded from creators other creators reference, so it holds working creators instead of a cross-section of the platform, and a creator below 10,200 followers has learned something about our sampling and nothing about their own account. The dollar model does not depend on it: every rate here is per thousand followers, so it applies identically at any size.
Monthly income is the part most calculators get wrong, and this one states its arithmetic. Posting cadence comes from lifetime output over account age, capped between 1 and 30 posts a month, and the model assumes a quarter of those posts are paid. The example above - 300 videos over 24 months - works out at 12 posts a month and lands at $306 to $612 a month. Change the cadence and the monthly figure changes with it; the per-post rate does not.
The dollar figures above are produced by running the calculator's own model over the stated inputs, so they cannot drift from the rate table below. The follower median is measured; the rates are industry heuristics and the posting cadence is read from the account's own history.