Because 25% of your post value goes to curators (the accounts that upvoted your post) Then what remains is split in SBD (Steem Dollars) and SP (steem power)
PS I Agree that this is super confusing !!! They should fix it and show us independently what exactly the poster will get and what the curators before the pay out's happen... That should be very easy to implement... When mouse over : show what curators get, when not, show what the poster gets!
PS2 I opened an issue on github since I think it really very important to change ASAP !
https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/212
Thanks for the details. Same thing after today's fork?
Yes... But they can fix it without a hardfork... it should be super easy to fix. It has to do with how steemit shows the blockchain data... (just show the same numbers reduced by 25%)
that would probably make more sense.
I found a site that you can view your earnings in real time on: Steemstats.com.
Check it out.