How Much Money I Spend as a YouTuber (2021)

In this video, I go over my annual expenses for 2021 in-depth across both personal and business. This is probably not that interesting for you honestly, but I always get comments from people asking how much I spend annually as I make videos about how I make money online, so I thought why not show you the other side of the coin. Enjoy xx

00:00 Intro
00:41 Personal Expenses
00:45 Rent and Mortgage
02:30 Food
03:51 Stuff
04:42 Books and audiobooks
05:41 Clothes
06:18 Personal care
06:58 Homeware
07:52 Car for mom
08:11 Subscriptions and apps
09:38 Travel
09:55 Services and outsourcing
11:43 Bills
13:08 Salaries
14:20 PTYA expenses
15:15 Workspace
15:49 Food (Business)
16:08 Equipment and supplies
17:13 Subscriptions
18:23 Coaching
19:06 Business travel
19:50 Taxes and fees

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[mehdimehdi]

as an amateur youtuber, I’ll always appreciate how transparent and honest you are

[paddygalloway]

This was the first year I really spent a lot of money in my business, not Alis level, but still a lot for me. It’s probably the scariest part of being an entrepreneur to see your expenses being double what you used to make in an entire year 😶

[yimthpu]

I just did some quick maths: 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.
Maybe another video idea: Can you show what you do with that profit? Like how much money do you actually save/use for personal stuff, put into stocks/investments and how much you reinvest back into the Youtube business? I think that would be really interesting.

[EthanChlebowski]

I know a guy if you are looking to learn how to cook dishes that fit your lifestyle :)

Also, I hugely appreciate the transparency and honesty in these videos ✊

[andresvidoza]

I was scared to spend money on the channel at first but when I saw your very first video related to this topic, spending money on the youtube channel made so much sense.. Love the videos man!

[matgonzalez]

Not gonna lie, this was SUPER informative despite what you said. I think getting that more granular understanding of what your expenses looks like helps make that 4.2M a LOT more realistic because to some degree it’s beyond me how that amount becomes “normalized”.

It also feels very “Ali” to have this level of transparency, and I really appreciate your willingness to share.

[SisiYemmieTV]

I love these kind of videos...appreciate your transparency. The points about books....makes so much sense.

[fromnaras]

as someone your age, i totally appreciate and respect the transparency. this allows me to compare myself in a healthy way because you say your reasons and are actually transparent. i love it! please do this as a series, every year :) i’m one of this morbidly curious people lol

[ThirtyVirus]

You are the embodiment of the phrase "spend money to make money"

[thingsbykinga]

While I was watching your video packaging the Christmas gifts in the afternoon I realised that your monthly budget for takeouts is my monthly budget - including rent, bills, subscriptions, going out, everything. In London. Working full time. And yet your video doesn’t seem like bragging about it. It is just what it is. I appreciate the transparency about your business, very informative.

[bandara]

As a person who keeps struggling with financial issues - this is soo inspiring and thoughtful

[Dhishan]

Your channel has really helped me as a newer Youtuber this year. Thank you for the inspiration Ali.

[bronzebond]

ya...you've probably made one of my top 7 favorite channels to date. The honesty is very much appreciated

[annaward]

I’m interested in learning more about your experience finding and hiring coaches. How you identified your personal and your team’s needs, what you looked for in a good coach, benefits, negative experiences and any recommendations you may have in that area for both entrepreneurs and employees. Could you make a video about that?

[jd_addy]

I think the benefit I get from watching this is finding out your value system.

Money is a measurement of value so seeing this video is seeing what you place value on. So it was really interesting for me to see what kinds of things you value (such as books) and realising that I haven’t placed as much value on some of the things you have.

So I actually get quite a lot of value from these videos.

Holy shit man you’re flying to 3m subs ! Great work and congrats to you and the team. Great proof that your expansion is paying off

[enigma]

I really love the way you are so transparent about this stuff, thank you so much!

[Jubair]

Ah sick! You have *definitely* inspired me to make a vid on showing my investments. Hoping you a great 2022 Ali!

[saradietschy]

You reminded me that Amazon Prime is something I pay for every year 🙃

[PierceJPeterson]

Loved the break down man! Great follow up video to the one where you talked about how much money you made in 2021. Happy Holidays!