If you want to make a thousand bucks a month in dividends i gotta be honest here it is gonna take quite a bit of cash to get to that point but i'm gonna show you exactly how to do the math here so that you can know for yourself what it takes to make a thousand bucks a month in dividends so the first thing you have to do is turn your monthly amount into a yearly amount then just take a thousand and multiply it by 12 12 months in a year and boom you've got 12 000 bucks right here in the calculator now just look up any company that pays out a dividend and in this case prospect capital they do pay dividends out once per month now just find their current dividend yield which in this case is eight point eight three percent and now we're going to go back into the calculator so just take your yearly amount which was twelve thousand bucks and divide that by the dividend yield and in the calculator that's going to be 0.0883 and now we've got close to 136 thousand dollars that you need to invest today in that specific company with their current dividend yield to make a thousand bucks a month in dividends