Roblox Creator Earnings 2018 To 2026: DevEx Payouts By Year

Table Showing The Growth of Roblox Creator Earnings Over The Years

Year	Roblox Creator Earnings (Developer Exchange Fees)	Change from previous year
2018	$71.89 million	n/a
2019	$111.98 million	+55.8%
2020	$328.74 million	+193.6%
2021	$538.32 million	+63.8%
2022	$623.86 million	+15.9%
2023	$740.7 million	+18.7%
2024	$922.82 million	+24.6%
2025	$1,503 million	+62.9%
2026 (As of Q2)	$786 million	n/a (partial year)

Detailed Insights on Roblox Creator Earnings

Roblox creators earned $786 million in the first two quarters of 2026. That half-year figure is already higher than the full-year total for 2023, which was $740.7 million. It also equals 52.3% of what creators earned in all of 2025.

2025 was the biggest year on record, with creator earnings of $1.5 billion. That was a 62.9% jump from $922.82 million in 2024. Roblox credits the hit game Grow a Garden with helping the platform break records in Q2 2025. Before that, earnings grew 24.6% in 2024.

Growth was slower in the two years before that, at 18.7% in 2023 and 15.9% in 2022, the slowest year in the data. The fastest growth came in 2020, when creator earnings rose 193.6%, from $111.98 million to $328.74 million. Back in 2018, creators earned just $71.89 million.

Roblox Creators Added $752 Million to the US Economy in 2025

Creator earnings also show up in the wider economy. According to Roblox’s 2026 Economic Impact Report, US-based creators generated a GDP impact of $752 million in 2025, a 69% increase over 2024. Creator activity supported 7,525 full-time job equivalents in the US, up 55% from 2024, and nearly 12,000 across the markets Roblox studied worldwide.

Much of this money goes outside the usual tech hubs. About 66% of 2025 payments to US creators, nearly $444 million, went to areas with a lower concentration of tech workers than the national average. Among creators surveyed, 83% work as individuals and not as established studios.

Earnings are not spread evenly, though. More than 42,000 creators are part of the DevEx program, and the median creator received about $1,500 in the 12 months ended June 30, 2026. By comparison, the 2025 edition of the report showed that the top 1,000 developers earned an average of $820,000 in 2024, while the top 10 averaged $33.9 million

Roblox Creator Earnings Are Growing Faster Than Roblox Revenue

Creator payouts are taking up a larger slice of the money Roblox makes. In 2025, creator earnings of $1.5 billion were equal to 30.7% of Roblox’s revenue of $4.9 billion. In 2018, that figure was 23.0%, when creators earned $71.89 million against revenue of $312.77 million.

The gap in growth rates explains the shift. Roblox revenue grew 35.9% in 2025, while creator earnings grew 62.9%. From 2018 to 2025, revenue grew 15.7 times, and creator earnings grew 20.9 times.

In the first half of 2026, Roblox reported revenue of $2.9 billion, including $1.46 billion in Q2 2026. Creator earnings of $786 million were equal to 27.1% of that revenue.

Notable Data Points on Roblox Creator Earnings Growth

• Roblox creator earnings crossed the $1 billion mark for the first time in 2025, when annual payouts reached $1.5 billion.
• Roblox creator earnings grew at a compound annual growth rate of 54.4% between 2018 and 2025.
• Roblox has paid creators a combined $5.63 billion from 2018 through Q2 2026.
• Creator earnings in 2025 alone were higher than the combined earnings of 2018 through 2021, which added up to $1.05 billion.
• Roblox creator earnings first crossed the $500 million mark in 2021, when payouts reached $538.32 million.
• Roblox creator earnings have increased in every full year since 2018, which is seven straight years of growth.
• Creator earnings rose by $580.18 million in 2025, which is more than creators earned in all of 2021.
• The smallest yearly increase came in 2019, when creator earnings rose by $40.09 million.

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