Data Changelog
Every correction, data refresh, and methodology change that has touched the numbers on this site, in the order it happened. 4 of the entries below are corrections, us fixing figures we had wrong, and we publish those as readily as the updates.
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- Correction
Removed fabricated income-mix “findings” from diversification research
The creator-income-diversification page had presented tier-by-tier income-mix percentages (for example 72% platform ads under $30K, 58% brand deals above $100K) as if they came from anonymized CreatorsCalc calculator inputs. Calculators run in the browser and do not store or aggregate those inputs, and we do not run a creator income survey. Those figures are removed. The URL is now planning guidance with official monetization-threshold pointers and links to model your own mix.
- Correction
Sponsorship research: dropped invented Reels YoY and unsourced deal premiums
Sponsorship-rate-benchmarks no longer shows an Instagram Reels year-over-year bar built from an unsourced “45% of feed” prior ratio. YoY bars remain only where a prior-year compiled midpoint exists (TikTok $10→$12 = +20%, plus YouTube / feed / Twitch). The platform CPM rankings page also dropped unsourced LIVE-shopping dollar premiums, newsletter dollar-per-send examples, and a convergence forecast. Charted midpoints and percentages derived from them stay.
- Methodology change
Cross-country tax comparison pinned to one policy vintage
The country-by-country comparison mixed rules from different years. It now runs on a single stated vintage: calendar-year 2026 rules for the United States, Canada and Germany, and 2026-27 tax-year rules for the United Kingdom and Australia. The source calendar records which vintage each page uses, because the standalone tax calculator still carries 2025-26 UK rates and says so.
- Data refresh
Creator-occupation wages moved to the May 2025 BLS estimates
The eight creator occupations were refreshed from the Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2025 national estimates. Graphic Designers, the largest of the eight, moved from a $61,300 median across 214,260 jobs to a $62,960 median across 197,830 jobs. The same commit documented how the headline "median creator-occupation wage" is built: an employment-weighted mean of the eight occupations, not a plain average.
- Correction
Federal brackets labelled 2026 were still the 2025 tables
U.S. federal income-tax thresholds presented as 2026 figures were the 2025 ones. They were replaced with the published 2026 tables, which moved the top of the 10% bracket for single filers from $11,925 to $12,400 and the top of the 12% bracket from $48,475 to $50,400. Guides and research pages carrying the same figures were corrected in the same change.
- Methodology change
Source-release calendar published
Each upstream source now carries a recorded vintage and a next-expected-release date, so a figure that has fallen behind its source is visible to us rather than discovered by a reader.
- Correction
Wage provenance named an intermediary instead of the origin
The provenance field behind the wage figures credited a sibling reference site as the source. The data originates with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics programme, and now says so.
- Publication
Wage and tax reference tables first published
The first published version of the tax-bracket and creator-wage tables behind the calculators.
What Gets Logged Here
A change earns an entry when it alters a number a reader could have relied on, or the method behind one: corrections to published figures, refreshes to a new release of an upstream source, and revisions to how a headline figure is derived. Design changes, new pages, and copy edits do not appear here.
The calculators themselves run in your browser against the tables described on the methodology page, which names every source and the vintage currently encoded.