>>3081781Cover is a company, and is legally forced to pay at least minimum wage for a full-time job (which the streamers they dont have, bear with me), 9 dollars/hour in Tokyo, since their talents are legally employees of the company and not affiliated part-time streamers (proven in the VOD holocaust arc, thats why they're forced to ask for permission now).
They're not required to work 45 hours a week, so they dont have a full-time contract, but some members like Kiara or Korone do 7+ hour streams streams pretty regularly and exceed the weekly hours for part-time workers but have never mentioned overpay, so their contract has to be different than the standard (which is obvious because you cant just start doshing overpay salary if Korone decides to do a 14 hour stream every day)
Im assuming they instead got a flat salary based on part-time laws (2008 work style reform), with 600-800 bucks a month, 50 to 66% of the minimum wage, which is likely and avoids fines. Since Youtube gets 30% of all memberships and superchats (public info), Cover gets 30%, the streamer gets 40% (source: Coco and others), streamers have to make at least 1800-2400 a month in superchats just to break even. To pick the smallest holo right now, Anya made 600 bucks a week on SC alone, so Cover makes 200 per week assuming this was a normal week.
So every holo does break even (this month, with these views), but I dont expect the holostars to have the same monthly income, and the numbers a year ago were more than half so if no one got a salary raise, some of the smallest hololives were actually a loss for Cover.
Anya also gives no money to Cover after her salary with these numbers. If the salary is lower (probably not) then she makes them like 200 bucks. If its higher then she's actually a money sink.
I dont think many streamers are actually strictly profitable for Cover. They're a monopoly in the vtuber industry but their highest VC investment was "only" 10 million dollars, which for an industry this profitable on paper means there has to be some sort of issue behind the scenes.
Also merch is 100% for the streamer so if one month they focus on pushing merch instead of in SC, sponsored streams, milking memberships,... the numbers above are even lower for that month
