Mark Rober is a prominent American YouTuber, engineer and inventor who has an estimated net worth of $5 million. He went viral overnight by sharing a Halloween costume prank on YouTube. He also worked as an engineer at NASA.
From 2011 to 2021, Mark Rober made a total of 95 videos and uploaded them on his verified YouTube channel. This video has 1.98 billion views in ten years, where $2 to $10 is given per thousand views.
Mark is the winner of the Streamy Award 2019 for creating the best science and education-based videos. He has also won the Diamond Creator Award 2020 as a YouTube content creator.
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How much Mark Rober make per year?
Mark Rober’s yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, hourly income is summarized here:
- Yearly income: USD 1.8 million
- Monthly income: USD 150K
- Weekly income: USD 37.5K
- Daily income: USD 5.3K
- Hourly income: USD 225
How Mark Rober make money?
Mark Rover is a YouTuber, engineer and inventor at a time. So, it is obvious that he has various sources of earning money. At present, his income sources are
- Content creation on YouTube and Facebook
- Engineering job
- Selling merchandise through the website
How much Mark Rober make per YouTube and Facebook video?
Mark started his YouTube career in October 2011 and posted a total of 95 videos on his YouTube channel until today. His YouTube career started after being viral on his very first video named “iPad2 Halloween Costume- Gaping hole in torso”.
His videos on YouTube have gotten a total of 1.98 billion views or 20.8 million views per video on average.
Mark’s earnings from the video ad that is shown during playing video are estimated at $5000 per day and $1.8 million per year. Thus his utmost payoff comes from YouTube ads that are shown during playing his videos.
Some of his most viewed videos (above 50 million views) are given below:
| Video Titles | Number of views |
|---|---|
| SKIN A WATERMELON party trick | 113 million |
| How to Survive a Grenade Blast | 74 million |
| CARNIVAL SCAM SCIENCE- and how to win | 70 million |
| Liquid Sand Hot Tub- Fluidized air bed | 80 million |
| Glitter Bomb 1.0 vs Porch Pirates | 85 million |
| World’s Largest Jello Pool- Can you swim in Jello? | 85 million |
| Testing if Sharks Can Smell a Drop of Blood | 84 million |
| World’s Largest Elephant Toothpaste Experiment | 67 million |
| Glitter Bomb 2.0 vs Porch Pirates | 57 million |
A massive amount of views shows that Mark’s maximum earning is based on YouTube content.
Engineering Job
Mark Rober joined NASA in 2004 as an engineer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory and worked there for nine years. Within the nine years, he spent seven years developing the Curiosity mars rover which is now on mars.
In 2004, a NASA engineer was paid at least $62K per year. As he was an engineer at JPL, his salary was above $80K per year.
After nine years, in 2016, he joined Apple as a product design engineer and worked for four years. Recently, he has a deal to create augmented outfits used for Marvel comics’ superheroes with Disney.
Selling Merchandise on Website
Mark Rober has an official merchandise website where he sells various products such as Mark Rober logo hoodie, narrow mouth Nalgene, logo tee shirts, logo joggers, logo snapbacks, magnets, glitter bomb etc.
All of these merchandises is sold through the website named ‘markrober.store’. From this source, he earns a large percentage of money as all of his YouTube subscribers (that is, 17.6 million) know about the online shop.
Biography of Mark Rober
| Full Name | Mark Rober |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 11 March 1980 |
| Birth Place | Orange County, California |
| Height | 6 feet |
| Weight | 62 Kg |
| Spouse | Lisa Rober |
| Children | 1 (Suffering Autism disorder) |
| Profession | YouTuber, Engineer, Inventor |
| Nationality | American |
| Net Worth | $5 million |
| Salary | $1.8 million per year |
Early Life
Mark spent his childhood in Orange County, California. In childhood, he became very interested in engineering. Besides, he was excellent in mathematics and physics.
Later on, he did a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University and a Master’s degree from the University of Southern California.
Career
After completing the Master’s from the University of Southern California in 2004, Mark joined NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the mechanical section and started his career as a jet propulsion engineer.
Afterward, his career journey was much adventurous. His career is listed below beginning to recent:
- Worked at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2004 to 2015)
- Worked at Apple Product Design Section (2016 to 2020)
- Working at Disney for creating Augmented Outfit (2020 to present)
- Creating science and educational YouTube video contents (2011 to present)
FAQs
Mark left NASA to spend more time inventing cool stuff and to film videos for his YouTube channel so that he can upload a video every month. He wants to move ahead with new ideas.
In 2015, Mark moved to Sunnyvale, California with his wife Lisa Rober and his only son. After moving here, he joined Apple as a product designer.
At present, he is a full-time YouTube video content creator. Besides, he runs an official website of his own where he sells merchandise such as clothes, snapbacks, logo magnets, Nalgene etc.
Sources
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6904995/awards – Mark Rober Awards IMDb
- https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Mark_Rober#Personal_life – Wikitubia, The YouTube Wiki
- https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCY1kMZp36IQSyNx_9h4mpCg – Mark Rober Socialblade.
