Dave's hourly wage is at minimum $50/hour still, that's including podcasts and nonsense. He has no reason to stop doing this, arguably cut back since his hourly wage would likely be higher without his strict autistic schedule.
Sorry, it’s not anywhere near that.
The members are around 1500$ a month, if we assume he streams 200 hours a month (mind you STREAMS, not plays), that’s around 7.50$ an hour.
Now if we assume he streams six hours per stream, even IF he meets the 150$ tipsgoal, which he hardly ever does these days, that’s a fairly mediocre 25$ an hour.
A really good DSP stream these days takes in around 100$. That’s around 16$ an hour, which is close to office/retail jawb wages in Seattle.
On quite a few streams, especially if his one or two whales don’t show up, he takes around 30$, which is well below minimum wage at 5$ an hour.
And taxes aren’t even calculated here, which would further bring down his “paycheck”.
EDIT: Didn’t include Superchats here where they take like a third? Also important to note that a lot of DSPs tips are in the meager 1-5 dollars where PayPal takes a sizable cut.
Now was Phil taking in the big bucks a few years ago? He sure did. But these days a good stream for him is around 50$ which is less than 10$ an hour.
He has no reason to stop this yet, not until his income is like half what it is now to even consider it.
If Dave saved money at all and wasn't a braindead consoomer with serious addiction problems, he'd be on easy street.
He could likely have paid off most of his house with just the doordash and gacha money.
Take the 1000$ he spends on groceries and gin every month according to the leaks and budget properly, he could go on a really nice vacation twice a year.
Dont get me wrong, I also would like to see total phil income death, but hes not even close to the point where part time gigs would make sense.
Now I’m not saying we’re seeing total income death yet, but it has dropped quite a bit. There are plenty of days where Phil streams for 5-10$ an hour in tips.
And more importantly, something like a third to half his income is dependent on PlanetJeff not getting a divorce or a car wreck, or OIC not getting tired of the gout sphere.
Anyone with half a sense would start to think of alternatives, even if it’s Uber.