A tiered rate changes your percentage as the creator's monthly earnings grow. Each tier has a threshold and a percentage, and the rate applies marginally — only the earnings above a threshold are charged at that tier's rate.
Tiers reset every calendar month.
Marginal, not retroactive
This is the part people get wrong. Crossing a threshold does not re-rate everything below it.
With tiers of 30% from $0 and 20% from $10,000, a creator earning $15,000 in a month is charged:
30% on the first $10,000 = $3,000
20% on the remaining $5,000 = $1,000
Total: $4,000
Not 20% of $15,000, and not 30% of $15,000. Each slice is charged at its own rate.
Tiers reset monthly
Brackets are calculated against earnings within a single calendar month, in UTC. A creator who reaches the top tier in one month starts the next month back in the first tier.
Earnings are assigned to a month by when they were earned, not when they were synced or charged, so a backfill lands in the month it belongs to.
Setting them up
Tiers are configured on the split as a list of thresholds and percentages. The first bracket starts at zero. Each subsequent bracket names the amount at which its rate takes over.
Balance adjustments
A manual balance adjustment is applied directly to what is owed, not run back through the brackets. Adjustments are corrections to a balance, not synthetic earnings — running them through the tiers would re-rate them and produce the wrong number.
Where to see the rate
The split's Details tab shows the tier schedule, so you can check which brackets are in force without opening the split for editing.
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