OnlyFans Star Kit Barrus Claims She Makes A Professor’s Salary In A Month

Kit Barrus isn’t whispering about her paycheck, but instead she’s putting it on the board like a math problem with one answer: OnlyFans is paying her more than the academic world ever could. Barrus, who is 27, a math and psychology graduate who graduated magna cum laude and ranks among the platform’s top creators, says her monthly income now blows past what many professional mathematicians and professors take home in an entire year.

Barrus claims her mathematics background gives her a strategic advantage in the subscription economy, and she says her results come from treating the platform like a business, not a gamble. “I make more in a month than many tenured professors make in a year,” Barrus said. And she insists it’s not a flex, it’s numbers, adding, “It’s not bragging, it’s reality. I’ve seen the salary data. The math checks out.”

“This is not luck,” she continued. “I treat it like a business. I look at churn rates, price elasticity, user behavior. It’s not random. It’s predictive modeling.”

In her telling, the edge isn’t just analytics, but it’s also understanding people. “And I’m good at it because I understand people and I understand numbers,” she said.

Barrus, who was raised Mormon in California, says her early life revolved around modesty and obedience, and she supported herself through college while working full time and taking night classes. Then came a pivot she says she didn’t plan.

Her entry into adult content, she said, began as a dare from TikTok followers. “What started as a joke turned into my full-time job,” she said.

Based on her own tracking, she ranks in the platform’s top 0.1% of creators. And she claims her earnings routinely top what many mathematicians make in a year. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median annual wage for mathematicians was $112,110 in 2022.

Barrus says she regularly beats that in a single month. “I have friends getting Ph.D.’s and publishing in academic journals who are struggling to pay rent,” she said. “Meanwhile, I’m investing six figures a year and working less than 20 hours a week.”

Kit previously opened up about how she runs her page like a long game, not a quick cash grab, and that includes paying attention to what subscribers are dealing with outside the app. As she explained, “A lot of people have been seeing their page traffic suffer because of the government shutdown. A lot of people who subscribe are blue collar workers, and when the government shut down, a lot of these people aren’t getting paid. So they’re obviously not on OnlyFans pages.”

Because OnlyFans is her main income stream, Barrus said she had to pivot fast. “I made a big adjustment to how I run the page. I keep track of it if someone tells me what their job is. So anyone who’s blue collar, anyone who’s working for the government and we know about it… when I sent out pay-per-view content to them, it’s going out cheaper.”

In other words, she didn’t just notice the slowdown, but she adjusted her pricing during the shutdown to meet subscribers where they were, betting that empathy and strategy can be just as profitable as any algorithm.

Barrus says many of the same tools she learned in math courses show up in how she manages content and monetization. “Optimization, A/B testing, subscriber segmentation, this is all data science,” she told The Blast. “The only difference is my medium.”

While critics may side-eye her decision to move away from the traditional path, Barrus says she’s not looking back, and she’s not waiting around for validation from institutions that weren’t going to reward her anyway. “I was never going to get a MacArthur Fellowship,” she said. “But I built a platform that values what I bring to the table. I don’t need tenure.”

And while she says she’s not shutting the door on school forever, it’s no longer the finish line. “I always thought I’d be a professor,” she said. “Now I’m the case study.”