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>>3222993
I guess the TL is kind of horrible so it's slightly more understandable. I'm pretty sure it's even flat out wrong, there's been a mistake on the numbers.

Basically they get 12000 yen per page ( about 100 usd ) about 150 if that happens to be a color page (quite rare).
You're probably confused because he's talking about loans, it has to be taken in the context of the previous and next chapters. Whilst they do make quite alot of money off the pages alone, they have to pay the assistants out of their pocket resulting in them possibly going into the red until the royalties start to roll in.