How co-host payouts work

If you have co-hosts to help you with your Airbnb listing, you can set up and share payouts with them.

What payouts can hosts choose to share

• Cleaning fee: you'll share the amount you set as your cleaning fee in your listing details
• Cleaning fee plus percentage: you'll share the amount you set as your cleaning fee in your listing details and add a percentage per booking (that excludes the cleaning fee)
• Percentage payouts: add the percentage you'd like to share per booking and then choose to exclude or include the cleaning fee amount in the percent calculation
• Fixed amount payouts: add the amount you'd like to share per booking

Payouts may be set up for co-hosts with any permissions. Some regional limitations may apply based on the host’s or co-host’s location that limit the ability to use this feature.

How payouts work

Only the host who is the listing owner can set up payouts for a co-host. Co-hosts cannot set up payouts for themselves or for other co-hosts.

After a host has set up a co-host payout, the co-host has 14 days to confirm or decline. If the co-host declines but would still like to receive payouts, the host can send a new proposal.

Once a co-host confirms their payouts, they'll be able to start getting payouts for bookings after guests check in. Any updates a host makes to existing payouts will only apply to the co-host’s payouts for bookings that start after the co-host confirms the update.

To get paid, all hosts and co-hosts must set up at least one payout method, and, where required, verify their identity and submit any required taxpayer information.

What payouts are included

Hosts can only share payouts with a co-host for guest stays on Airbnb. Experience bookings, host damage protection reimbursements, and Resolution Center payouts aren’t included.

When you’ll get your payout

Both host and co-host payouts will be sent about 24 hours after the guest checks in, and the host or co-host’s payout method will determine how long it takes for them to receive the money. 

If the reservation is a monthly stay, we’ll send the payout for the first month about 24 hours after the guest checks in, and we’ll send payouts monthly for the remainder of the guest’s stay.

Where to find your payouts

Once a booking is confirmed, you can find your earnings and co-host payout amount in your Earnings dashboard.

How payouts are calculated

Co-host payouts are calculated based on the amount of the host’s potential earnings for each booking.

For hosts: To calculate the host’s potential earnings for a booking, multiply the nightly price by the number of nights, and add any additional charges to the guest, like a cleaning fee. Then subtract the host service fee and, if applicable, other taxes and fees.

For co-hosts: Co-host payouts are then calculated using host’s potential earnings amount per booking and the payout option set up by the host: the cleaning fee, the cleaning fee plus a percentage per booking (excluding the cleaning fee), percentage per booking (excluding or including the cleaning fee), or a fixed amount per booking.

If the host’s potential earnings amount is not enough to cover co-host payouts, co-hosts may receive a payout that is less than they expect.

Taxes and payouts

Co-host payouts will not impact the amount which will be reported to the listing owner for tax information reporting purposes. Listing owners will receive a tax document on the full booking amount, and co-hosts will receive a tax document for the amounts they receive as specified by the listing owner.

Set up or edit co-host payouts

Co-host payouts can only be set up and edited by the listing owner.

Co-hosts must confirm the payout proposal

Your co-host will need to confirm before they can start receiving payouts. If you want to edit the payout settings before your co-host confirms, you’ll need to cancel the proposal and send another.

Keep in mind: Any changes made to existing payouts will only apply to the co-host’s payouts for bookings that start after the co-host confirms the changes.

If you’re sharing the cleaning fee and want to change the amount, you can in your listing details. Changing your cleaning fee doesn’t require a co-host to confirm a new proposal, but they’ll get a notification of the change.

Removing co-host payouts

If you remove a co-host and stop sharing payouts, your co-host will be notified that payouts have stopped. You (or a full-access co-host) can also remove payouts by removing a co-host from your listing, which the co-host will also be notified about.

Co-host payout exceptions

When the host’s potential earnings amount is greater than the sum of all co-host payouts, co-hosts will be paid first, and the host will receive whatever remains. In some cases, either a co-host or the host might not receive a payout, or will receive less than expected.

Co-host payouts examples

If 2 or more co-hosts payouts are set up on a listing, the host’s potential earnings amount will be shared with co-hosts in the following order:

1. Cleaning fee only
2. Cleaning fee, plus a percentage of the booking that excludes the cleaning fee
3. Percentage of the booking (excluding the cleaning fee), in order of the highest amount to lowest amount
4. Percentage of the booking (including the cleaning fee), in order of the highest amount to lowest amount
5. Fixed amount per booking, in order of the highest amount to lowest amount

Any amount that remains after co-host payouts will be paid to the host.

Example of payout order:

Example of payout order where the co-host proposed payouts exceed the total potential host earnings:

Regional limitations to sharing payouts

There are some regional limitations to sharing payouts with co-hosts, depending on where you, your co-host, and your listing are located.

Limitations for participants in Resident Hosting

Hosts who have opted into the Resident Hosting program can share payouts with co-hosts in the United States, but limitations apply. Co-host payouts are not supported for the Residential Hosting program in the UK and Canada. To learn more, check out Residential Hosting program co-host payouts.