It might have been corrected ?

it currently reads to me as 14~17, which is not great, but not that high either depending on the exact case.

> When considering all factors, including standard payout processing fees, the real cut for a creator on Patreon is often a stark ~14-17% depending on the exact scenario.

I am a creator with the early adopter plan and I see about 10-15% of every month’s gross go to Patreon and payment processors.

If a creator and a platform are splitting a dollar and “the real cut for a creator is ~15%”, I’d expect that to mean the creator gets $0.15 and the platform $0.85.

Reading your answer I get why the wording is ambiguous. I read it as “the real [revenue] cut for a creator”, keeping the same meaning for “cut” as in the page title.

Exactly. It's cut as a verb (to reduce) versus cut as a noun (the share of the total). In this case, I think the sentence structure has it as a noun, even if the author was thinking of the verb sense of the word.

No, creator keeps 86-83%, so ~85c from every dollar

>the real cut for a creator on Patreon is often a stark ~14-17% depending on the exact scenario.

edit: now I get it, seems like you are native speaker and me and author are not, I guess correct way should be "cut from a creator" instead?

To my ears just rephrasing it as "Patreon's real cut is..." would sound most natural.

Worked example, numbers from my Patreon, rounded for ease. Worst case is 34-41% fees, with around 14-20% from the Patreon side.

Let's say I make $25/m from Patreon. I receive 79.18% to 86.12% (processing fees, Patreon fee and currency conversion)

Withdrawing every two months via Payoneer ($10 USD fee under $500, minimum $50), I would take home $33.06 to $29.59.

Which is 34 to 41% of the total, before tax.