# Let's talk about the elephant in the room: The Storj economic model (node operator payout model)

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**Category:** Node Operators\
**Created:** [November 2, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/lets-talk-about-the-elephant-in-the-room-the-storj-economic-model-node-operator-payout-model/20127 "2022-11-02T20:21:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/lets-talk-about-the-elephant-in-the-room-the-storj-economic-model-node-operator-payout-model/20127/615 "2022-11-16T17:32:51Z")

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> [@Balage76](#):
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> I believe these days ingress/node is more than what you calculate with.

I’m seeing about 800GB ingress + 100GB repair ingress in the last 2 months. But I think the difference you see compared to the earnings estimator is more because the loss to vetting is actually less than calculated. I adjusted both numbers a little based on some new nodes I started myself. It now seems to match what you saw.

(and yeah, I adjusted it a little faster than I normally do, because I prefer waiting for at least 3 months to see a trend reliably change, but I think the past month and a half combined with Storj’s statements around growth probably present a reliable enough basis to update.)

Let me know if it looks better to you now.

 ![image](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/2X/d/df90fdd070d747c261c2619ad783b91b1915fcc8.png)  
Source: [Realistic earnings estimator](https://forum.storj.io/t/realistic-earnings-estimator/6693)

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