Statistical gazette OnlyCrawl
Labour desk$6.3B FY2025 payouts

OnlyFans creator earnings statistics

Averages without a denominator are fan fiction. Fiscal 2025 finally published both denominators: 5.0 million accounts, 2.5 million active. Everything on this page is restated against those two bases.

TL;DR

  • Mean active creator: $2,520 in FY2025. Mean registered account: $1,260. Unconditional median registered account: $0.
  • 5,076 creators have earned $1M+ lifetime — 0.20% of FY2025 active creators.
  • If the old “top 1% take 33%” tracker share still holds, the top 25,000 active creators averaged about $83,160 last year. The bottom 1.25 million active creators averaged about $101.
  • Shannon Elizabeth reportedly crossed $1.2M in her first week in 2026. That is a celebrity liquidity event, not a career path.

Means, medians, millionaires

Mean / active creator$2,520

$6.3B / 2.5M.

Mean / registered$1,260

$6.3B / 5.0M.

Conditional median (legacy)~$180

Survey/tracker figure for creators who received something.

Unconditional median$0

Half of accounts were not active.

Lifetime millionaires5,076

Company, Aug 2026.

Millionaire rate (active)0.20%

1 in 493 active creators, lifetime not annual.

Restated distribution

We do not pretend to have a microdata census. We do restate published shares on the FY2025 payout pile. If those shares drifted, the dollars drift with them — the method stays honest.

SlicePeopleShare assumptionImplied $ / year
Top 1% active25,00033%$83,160
Top 1% registered50,00033%$41,580
Bottom 50% active1,250,0002%$101
Lifetime $1M+ club5,076unknownnot annual

Pricing context

Subscription floors are still $4.99–$49.99. A $9.99/month list price with 120 paying fans is $1,199 gross, $959 after the 20% fee — before PPV. That already puts a creator near 38% of the mean active annual figure in a single month, which is why PPV and chat dominate folklore. Use the calculator rather than a Twitter screenshot.

Celebrities are not the distribution

Bella Thorne’s 2020 first-day million and Shannon Elizabeth’s 2026 first-week $1.2M are liquidity events on an imported audience. They prove the pipes can clear seven figures. They say nothing about the 2.5 million people who did not arrive with an IMDb page. Lily Allen’s reported 1,000 subscribers at $10/month beating 7.5 million Spotify listeners is the better parable: direct fan participation out-earns weak streaming royalties even at tiny scale. It is still not a median.