TikToker With One Million Followers Reveals How Much She Makes A Month

Vi Loung, 24, joined TikTok in 2019 and already has over one million followers - mainly thanks to how-to-do videos.

• February: about $19,000 (£13,880)
• March: about $30,000 (£21,920)
• April: about $32,000 (£23,380)
• May: about $1,000 (£730 - Luong said May was an anomaly because some of her payments were delayed)
• June: about $32,000 (£23,380)
• July: about $17,000 (£12,420)

Loung said that just after 10 months of being on the platform, she quit her job in social media marketing to become a full-time influencer.

Her best performing videos on the platform consist of topics such as the top photo-editing apps (1.5 million views), how to take Instagram photos on an iPhone (2.9 million views), and do-it-yourself clothing hacks (11 million views).

For one TikTok post she charges between $8,000 (£5,850) and $10,000 (£7,310).

When she works with brands she charges around $3,000 (£2,190) to $4,000 (£2,920), she says.

She told Business Insider: "I created a series on TikTok around how to be photogenic, pose, and how to edit.

"That's what really blew up my account over the course of 2020."

Her income comes from two sources - brand sponsorships and revenue from TikTok's creator fund.

This year she has been working with three brands for annual sponsorships, as well as her one-off collaborations.

She earns about $150 to $300 a month from the TikTok Creator Fund, which is the app's built-in monetisation feature. The amount of money she makes varies from how much content she posts.

She said: "I started out by taking a handful of deals a month, but it can be a real time and energy suck.

"Instead, what I prioritise is high-paying, minimum five-figure deals for brands I genuinely love. I only do a couple of those a month."

If you want to earn money directly from TikTok, users have to be 18 years or older, meet a baseline of 10,000 followers, and have accumulated a minimum of 100,000 video views in the past 30 days.