LinkedIn's Czech help page describes how an expert adds a paid consultation button to their profile and sets the length and price of the session. The guide is in Czech, but according to the same page, only invited Premium Business subscribers in the United States may host sessions, and only people in the US may book them. On 15 October 2026, LinkedIn listed them among the new ways for creators to earn. It promises them for other countries soon, with no date.
LinkedIn announced consultations in May and is not yet taking a cut
For the United States, the date was already 12 May 2026, when LinkedIn announced Advice Sessions for consultants, coaches and creators. It promised them to subscribers on the Premium Business plan in the US that same month. The company is now preparing a page with an overview of experts for the consultations, so that people can find them beyond their existing audience.
For the audience in the United States, a consultation begins with the "Get advice from me" button in the intro section of the expert's profile. The client clicks it, picks a time, reviews the order and pays at a secure checkout. Payments are processed by Stripe, where the host must pass identity verification and set up a bank account. The host receives the money only after 30 days, which serve for resolving any problems. Then they get the full amount for the session minus the Stripe fee.
LinkedIn is not yet taking a cut of that amount. But the host pays for entry themselves. Premium Business costs USD 69.99 with monthly billing. In a June 2026 column for the French Journal du Net, Emmanuelle Petiau wrote that no serious platform builds payment infrastructure between its members only to leave it free forever. According to her, with consultations LinkedIn is for the first time stepping directly into the transaction between professionals.
LinkedIn is testing ads before videos by selected creators in the US
LinkedIn steps into the transaction between brand and creator with the second October way to earn as well, pre-roll video ads. When setting up a campaign, the advertiser chooses a content category, such as finance or leadership, and LinkedIn itself decides before which videos by creators and publishers the ad will run. The advertiser does not need individual deals with creators. The company did not say how much of the revenue goes to creators. The In-Stream Ads programme is only an early test, which LinkedIn is so far running with selected American creators and advertisers. Creators apply to it from the new dashboard.
Over the coming weeks, the new dashboard is to become globally available to all members, with or without a subscription, and on mobile it opens by tapping the profile photo at the top left. LinkedIn is sending the dashboard with the ways to earn to Czechia, while keeping the ways themselves in the US. In the EU, France was also waiting for consultations in June, where Petiau advised starting to use them as soon as they are available there.
Financial adviser Derek Notman of Florida, who tested the feature in summer 2026, would not leave consultations available to everyone. "I would have some parameters," he said. He would check hosts' licences and experience. The value of paid advice "will depend on trust that cannot be manufactured by a dashboard", writes the industry site WERSM.
Ermos Erotocritou, founder of Canada's Advisor Acquisition Academy, welcomes paid advice via a button, yet does not expect it to automatically bring advisers "like five free leads a day". Kevin D. Turner, who has offered consultations on LinkedIn since the test version, asked people about the button and, under the October announcement, summed up that they either overlooked it or did not recognise a paid session in it. The custom link on his profile, which he lost because of the new feature, brought him more opportunities, he said.
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