How do I Earn Revenue From Udemy Business?

Udemy Business is a fast-growing, subscription-based enterprise learning solution, offering a curated selection of Udemy’s top-rated 5,500 courses to leading organizations around the world. Thousands of companies leverage Udemy Business to engage employees in learning from the freshest, highest-quality content on the market.

• Learn more about the companies that use Udemy Business for their learning needs.
• Learn more about Udemy Business and how to get your name in front of employees at leading companies.

Please note that if your course(s) are added to the Udemy Business content collection, you may begin to see new students in your student list with a Udemy Business tag (see below).

Udemy Business Revenue Calculation

On Udemy Business, instructors are compensated based on learner engagement. This differs from the Udemy marketplace model, where instructors are compensated based on course purchases.

Each month, Udemy allocates 25% of monthly subscription revenue from Udemy Business customers as the instructor revenue pool. Each instructor's share of this amount is equal to their share of the total minutes consumed across all Udemy Business courses. For example, if 3% of all consumption in Udemy Business courses for a given month occurred in your courses, you'd receive 3% of the Udemy Business instructor revenue pool for that month. 

Consumption is calculated as minutes spent watching videos or actively using on-site interactive learning tools like practice tests, quizzes, or coding exercises. It includes re-watched minutes and minutes consumed using the mobile-only offline viewing feature.

While the total instructor revenue pool has consistently grown over time, fluctuations in your courses' relative share of consumption will also factor into the revenue you earn from Udemy Business each month.

Payment schedule

Udemy Business revenue is added in the first week of the following month under the Udemy Business tab on your revenue report. For example, your Udemy Business revenue for the month of January, would appear in your January revenue report during the first week of February. 

For courses with multiple instructors, revenue will be divided amongst co-instructors and reflected in each instructor’s individual revenue report.  

Payments for Personal Plan (individual subscription pilot)

Instructors are compensated for participation in Personal Plan via the same calculation as Udemy for Business, as described above. 

Revenue from Personal Plan will appear on the main revenue report with the label "Individual subscription." Currently, revenue from Personal Plan will appear as a lump sum, rather than being broken out by course.

Personal Plan revenue will be posted a few days before it’s paid out, approximately 30 days after the close of the month, in which the relevant consumption took place. For example, September earnings from Personal Plan will appear in the September statement around the first week of November, and will be paid out shortly after.