Earning $1,000/Month from $SPYI Sounds Crazy… Until You See This

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Now, SPYI or the Neos S&P 500 High Income ETF is one of my personal favorite high income ETFs. I've held on to this one pretty much ever since it started trading back late 2022. The CTF offers exposure to my favorite index, which is the S&P 500, but implements a data-driven call option strategy, which means this ETF not only gives me that S&P 500 exposure, but also is going to pay me and other investors around a 12% distribution rate with help from options. This ETF, since I've held on to it, has grown in price. It's paid me monthly distributions for the thousand plus shares I own. And it's become very, very popular, as you can see as of the filming of the video, almost 9 billion in assets. But what about for investors that are just getting started out? If you want to earn $1,000 per month from this ETF, in this video I'm going to share with you guys multiple different ways on how an investor could get there with different amounts of money over multiple different time frames. And one thing's for certain, if you guys like high income, definitely stick around.

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[00:01:22]It's the first link down below in my description. So, just to lay down some groundwork, this ETF, SPYI, pays investors somewhere around 50 cents per share per month. Now, it costs around 50 bucks per share as of right now, so for every single share you buy, you're sort of expecting 50 cents, more or less, inside of your portfolio as far as dividend income the following month. But this also means that every single two shares you buy, you're looking at around a dollar of forward dividend income.

[00:01:43]Now, another crazy stat about SPYI is that per year, over the last 12 months at least, this ETF has paid investors $6.17.

[00:01:50]Once again, per year in dividends for every single share that they have. As far as reaching certain goals, like getting to $25 per year in annual income if you're just getting started, or if you want to get to $100 or $200 per year in dividend income with SPYI, it's definitely reasonably easy. But you guys came here to figure out how to make a thousand dollars per month with SPYI, and so let's go over multiple different ways to do it. So, obviously because SPYI pays around 51 cents per share per month, this means that you would need around 2,000 shares of the ETF in order to reach this goal. And because this ETF costs around 50 bucks per share, more or less, this would cost $100,000. Now, with this you would earn around $12,000 per year in dividends, which is not bad whatsoever considering you only have around 100k invested. But what about for those investors that just want to stack shares over time? If you bought SPYI consistently, you spent around $100 per month into the ETF, you could reach that $100,000 principal milestone after eight or nine years. If you put around $2,000 a month into SPYI, you could reach this around four or five years. $3,000 per month, around three years. Or let's say if you had a little bit higher of a budget, you could buy SPYI consistently over on one and a half to two years and reach the milestone of earning $1,000 per month from a single ETF. Now, I think it's very important to set different goals as far as milestones go.

[00:02:58]As far as dividend income goes, in my long-term portfolio, as you can see right here, I earn around $123,000 per year in dividends with a longer-term goal of $240,000 per year. Now, it really is just a matter of stacking more and more shares brick by brick, adding to your forward dividend income a little bit here, a little bit there. And that's what I honestly love about dividend investing. Even if you just buy a few shares of this or that, you're getting that instant gratification of knowing that you just increased your annual, your monthly, and your weekly income.

[00:03:23]So, sure, it could take several years to reach the point to where you're earning $1,000 per month with SPYI based off the current numbers, but that doesn't mean that it's impossible. I want you guys to comment down below how many shares of SPYI you currently have in your portfolio. Let me know in the comments down below. Thanks as always for stopping by, and if you are interested in investing, make sure to check out these recent videos I posted right here.