yeah. The money you get from Google Ads depends on many things such as: how many sites you put Google Ads, CTR, pageview mean visitor...and so on. To me, 100$ - 200$. That is all my effort.
Im at $57 for the month of july with adsense on my blog. didt quite make it.. hopefully i get $43 worth of clicks this month so i can get my check.
It varies way too much and truly depends on the effort that I put in. I do get a substantial check each month that has allowed me to purchase some sweet toys! But in all honesty, it is truly like throwing a handful of beans at a wall and asking the question "which one hit first" when they all land on the floor afterwards. If I put a lot of effort in promoting my sites, they do quite nicely. If I do nothing, they do "ok" for zero effort and for being on autopilot. Right now I have 3 news sites that I'm building and promoting, and one is doing great, the other two are not doing a whole lot just yet, probably not paying for hosting. LOL!
You can get your cheque when your account is $100 and more. For example, by the end of June, You got $140, so this month - mean July you will get cheque from Google Ads.
^^ you will not get banned what ever the % of the CTR if their legitimate clicks and the person hasnt broken the tos.
But it is highly probable that at 40% CTR either people are TRYING to make your site look illegitimate, or it is on its own. 40% CTR means that for every 5 people on your site, 2 of them decided that out of the dozens of links all over the place, your ads were exactly what they wanted. This is an absurdly high rate of ad clicking and Google will definitely audit such high CTR.
If the clicks are legitimate, there are no worries. A few of my sites do extremely well, and many days are double digits with the CTR, and has been for some time.
It is a little bit difficult to predict, in May I received $60.00, June $5.00, July $15.00. In July sometimes my site get more than 1,000 pp per day but nobody click the ads. I don't know what I am going to do, I keep changing the location and ads coloring but the result is the same.
Last month i broke my last record with a $2000+. This equals to lot of traffic into one site and a solid CTR. Anyways, almost 2 years ago i was strugling to achieve $1/day...
40% CTR is very very hight. Check you account again. You will be banned in the future. Good luck to you.
I have one site with Adsense.. in the last 2.5 years, i havnt gone below $1,200, and gone as high as $3,500.. The site gets around ~15,000 visitors per day.. I also monetize the site with Kontera and Premium Memberships.