Performance

Measuring revenue-impacting elements of the validator

Skipped Leader Slots

APY

Income

Income for a validator is measured by epoch. Primary sources of income and expenses vary according to the table below:

Name / Description	Who pays it	When and how is paid
Commission: The percentage of inflation rewards collected by the validator from its stakers as commission for services.	Stakers	Per block. Paid to the validator's vote account.
Transaction Fees (part of Leader Slot Rewards): 50% of all standard transaction fees in the block produced.	Users who submit transactions to the Solana network	Per block produced. Paid to the validator's identity account.
Priority Fees (included in Leader Slot Rewards): 100% of all priority (CU-based) fees in the transactions that were included in the block produced.	Users who submit transactions to the Solana network	Per block produced. Paid to the validator's account of identity.
Voting Fees: Also known as vote transaction fees, these are a small cost that validators pay to submit votes to the network.	Every validator pays this to earn TVC.	Per block. Paid from the validator's identity account.
Voting Compensation: Offered by the SFDP, this initiative enables smaller or newer validators to remain financially sustainable by offsetting the cost of voting fees.	Solana Foundation through the SFDP	Per epoch. Paid to the validator's identity account.
Jito Rewards: Only applicable if you are running the Jito-Solana client, which enables MEV tip capture via the Jito Block Engine	Bots, searchers who want to front-run, back-run, or bundle transactions for arbitrage	Per block. Paid to the validator's identity account.

Timely Vote Credits (TVC)

Commission