Streamer
🔴Hosts live streams for hours: gaming, chatting, creative work. Entertains the chat in real time and earns from donations, subscriptions and sponsorships.
Prospects & pay
What the work is like
💼 Job market
🇺🇸 $78.4k a year on average · +4.7% jobs by 2035 · 4,500 openings a year
Entertainers & performers, sports & related workers, all other — US: Census ACS 2020–24 (full-time), BLS projections 2025–35
🤖 AI & automation
AI hosts are appearing, but viewers come for a real person and their reactions. Income is extremely unequal: a few earn millions, most earn almost nothing.
Who it suits
Interests: 📱 Media, content, advertising, 🎭 Music, theatre, dance, 💻 Coding and digital.
Key strengths: understanding people, speaking and writing.
Where to study
- Course No formal route; streaming, editing and audio skills
Key school subjects (A-level / IB / AP): Drama, Computer Science, English Literature.
🧗 There's no formal route: years of regular streams on Twitch, YouTube or Kick, your own niche and clip editing. Most streamers earn little, so they combine it with study or work.
Things to know
🎤 Public speaking, being on camera🌙 Night shifts and on-call🪑 Sitting at a computer all day
Similar careers
Not sure what to choose?
A ~100-question quiz builds your interest profile and matches you with careers and universities in Europe, the UK and the US.
Take the quiz →Scales are expert estimates; tuition and admission rules are for 2026/27 from official sources — always check the university website.