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by mrtksn 3351 days ago
You can improve that with better ad space placing and styling but seems about right. Also 1000 impressions pay about 1 click.

The earnings per click will vary wildly depending on your content "quality"(whatever Google's algorithms decide is quality) and category(content about insurance will probably bring better paying insurance ads and content about 9/11 conspiracies will probably bring less paying ads).

AdSense has many problems but it's not a scam.