# Payout decreasing every month?

**URL:** <https://forum.storj.io/t/payout-decreasing-every-month/14549>\
**Category:** Node Operators\
**Tags:** payouts\
**Created:** [July 9, 2021, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/payout-decreasing-every-month/14549 "2021-07-09T09:31:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2023, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/payout-decreasing-every-month/14549/78 "2023-07-12T04:49:34Z")

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> [@humbfig](#):
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> Also, the authoring of the thread “Let’s talk about the elephant in the room”, which smoothly paved the way for what was coming.

It seems to me that this post was the last straw in the appearance of that proposal. This question has been raised before:

> [@New pricing announcement](https://forum.storj.io/t/new-pricing-announcement/13212):
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> From the “Tardigrade is now Storj DCS” email: We’re reducing storage fees from $10 per TB per month to $4.00, reducing our egress bandwidth fee from $45 per TB to $7.00, and getting rid of the per object fees. How is this sustainable when you pay storage node operators more than you’re getting?

There were talks for a long time (and later: [Bandwidth payout for node more than price user pay for, how it possible](https://forum.storj.io/t/topic/19018)), but after such a massive discussion, it became obvious to everyone that it was time to do something, it was impossible to delay an unpleasant decision any longer.  
So I wouldn’t call this discussion as a warning, but more like a concern. And thanks to our Community, we were able to gently begin the process of finding a point of sustainability for the economic model.

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