I have been mining zcash this week and my returns are much lower than I was expected and less than half of whattomine calculates for my sol/s. I get 1080 sol/s or so with my 1080ti/1060 setup and I was expecting around 5 dollars a day and I am actually getting less than 3. I had to switch to nicehash because it is much more profitable at the moment.
I know there has been a recent surge in difficulty and most everyone is making less than they were but I feel like I am doing something wrong here. Maybe not?
It does not sound like you are doing anything wrong just sounds like you are running everything stock where NiceHash is preconfigured to run everything at a stable O/C. This is why you are seeing the difference in per day amounts.
You $5.00 per day figure is not off, but with market and difficulty changes I would bank on $3.75 per day and anything above that is bonus.
honestly I changed to flypool a couple of days ago and it is not better then suprnova
I get 0.01 ZEC every 12h with flypool and I got 0.01 ZEC every 9-10h by suprnova just 3 day ago