How much do Solana stakers earn?
Over the past week, stakers received roughly 55,405 SOL a day in issuance yield and 1,045 SOL a day in Jito tip yield — network-wide, across every delegated stake account. Since August 2023 the running total is 87.79M SOL.
Issuance is by far the larger share, and it moves slowly. It is minted on a fixed schedule that tapers about 15% a year, so the line drifts down while the amount of staked SOL pushes it back up. Jito yield is the volatile part: it tracks what block space is worth on the day, and its size relative to issuance moves with it. At its busiest it averaged about 31 times the current level.
Issuance yield and Jito tip yield
Issuance yield is your share of the SOL Solana mints each epoch and pays to stake accounts — the base return, and the reason staking exists. Jito tip yield is your share of what MEV searchers pay to get transaction bundles landed; it reaches you only if your validator takes part in Jito's tip auction, which almost all of the network now does. Both arrive after the validator has taken its commission, which is exactly what the validator revenue chart plots. One methodology note that moves the figure a lot: validators charging 90% commission or more are counted as staking to themselves, so their commission lands here as staker yield rather than operator revenue. Leaving them out would understate what the network pays stakers by roughly a quarter.
What this means for your own stake
This chart is the whole network, not a rate. What you actually keep depends on two things: your validator's commission, and inflation. Only the real column adds to your share of the supply; the nominal rate merely keeps you level with the SOL being minted around you. The staking rewards and APY guide shows how commission enters that, the staking calculator puts numbers on a real position, and the live validator ranking shows who takes what.
Keep more of this yield
Stake.Cake charges 0% commission, so none of the issuance and Jito yield above is taken on the way to you.
FAQ
What is the difference between staker revenue and validator revenue?
They are the two halves of the same split. Validator revenue is what the operator keeps as commission; staker revenue is what passes through to delegators. A 5% commission means the operator takes 5% of the issuance rewards and forwards 95% to you, which is why commission is the one number that decides your return.
Where does this data come from?
Two on-chain sources feed it: the inflation credited to stake accounts, and the Jito tip distributions. They are summed network-wide each day and denominated in SOL. The most recent days are revised as epochs settle, so the newest point can read low until it is complete.