Graham Stephan Net Worth: How Much Money He Makes On YouTube
Graham Stephan Net Worth – $40 Million
Graham Stephan is a real estate agent and investor in his late 20s from Santa Monica, California. He has an estimated net worth of $40 million. He started working in real estate as a real estate agent shortly after turning 18 and currently has over $140,000,000 in residential real estate sales since 2008. He is currently working for The Oppenheim Group, a professional real estate brokerage serving buyers and sellers of luxury property in Los Angeles. His notable clients include Orlando Bloom, Chloe Moretz, Suki Waterhouse, LaVar Arrington, Wale, Casper Inc and many others. He started doing YouTube to share his successes, failures and experiences in the real estate industry and to support others who may be thinking of getting into that business.
Graham’s content on YouTube is mainly about finances. He tries to teach people about savings, investments, spending habits, credit card reviews, how to make money, real estate and anything else he finds interesting. He started another channel called The Graham Stephan Show where he uploads videos about random topics and start discussions.
How Much Money Does Graham Stephan Earn On YouTube?
The channel has over 4.5 million subscribers as of 2024 and has accumulated over 1.2 billion views so far. It is able to get an average of 500,000 views per day (approx 50% are from Shorts) from different sources. Due his content mainly being financial content, his earnings per 1,000 views is among the highest in the industry. His videos are able to generate an estimated revenue of $4,000 per day ($1.5 million a year) from the ads that appear as the videos play.
Graham also runs a podcast by the name Iced Coffee Hour where he interviews different celebrities on a number of topics related to money and their lives. The channel has over 1.1 million subscribers and has accumulated over 1 billion views. It gets an average of 500,000 views per day (approx 10% are from Shorts). This should generate an estimated revenue of $3,600 per day ($1.3 million a year).
YouTube content creators based in the US, UK, Canada and Australia generally get paid $2 – $12 per 1000 monetized views after YouTube takes its cut. Monetized views usually range from 40% – 80% of the total views. All these are influenced by several factors like the device played on, time of the year, the location of the viewer, ad inventory, how many ads there are on a video, how many people skip the ads, type of advertisement, ad engagement, type of content, etc.
The cost of an ad view is based on an auction between advertisers based on views. Advertisers have to bid a minimum of $0.01 per view.
There is also a program known as Google Preferred where deep-pocketed companies can target ads on the top 5% most popular content. The ad rates here are higher than normal.
Apart from ads, YouTubers also generate extra from YouTube Red viewers who pay a monthly fee to view premium content on YouTube plus watch videos without ads. Here they get paid based on watch time on their videos. The longer the viewers watch their videos, the more money they earn.
Other Sources Of Income
Apart from YouTube, Graham has a number of other sources of income. He runs two other YouTube channels by the names Graham Stephan Show (100 million views) and Iced Coffe Hour (15 million views). His 3rd source of income is two programs he sells to teach people about real estate and YouTube and it generates an average of $25,000 per month. His 2.5% commissions from real estate sales average around $15,000 per month and he also owns some rental properties which net him $4,800 per month. His mortgage equity is about $2,800 per month and interest from savings is around $1,700 per month. He also makes money through Amazon Affiliate, earning about $1,000 per month.
Graham bought his first property in 2012 for $59,500. He skipped going to college and decided to get his real estate license in 2008. He helped renters find homes for a year and at 19 years he sold his first property netting him $45,000. He continued on that trajectory selling different properties and saving the majority of his income. He started buying his first properties during the property market crash in the United States in 2012. He bought 3 properties in 2012 valued at $59,500, $72,000 and $125,000 which he has been renting out ever since. He bought more property in 2016 valued at $780,000, one in 2017 at $585,000, one in 2018 at $835,000 and two in 2020 for $2.1 million and $1.5 million. Most of these properties have gained value tremendously.
Graham decided to move to Las Vegas for tax savings purposes hence increasing his income tremendously.
Outside real estate, Graham has invested over $7 million in the stock market and has continued to invest consistently. He also does angel investing in various startups. He started a coffee company known as Bank Roll Coffee which currently does $20,000 – $30,000 a month in gross sales. In 2021, he decided to venture into Crypto investments by buying Bitcoin and Ethereum. He currently has $1 million in investment into this asset class and plans to make it around 8% of his portfolio. As a safety net and for tax expenses, he has over $3 million in cash.