Average earnings of a freelancer. How and how much do freelancers earn?

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

The definition of "freelance" (from English freelance) is translated into Russian as "non-contract work", "work outside the state", "remote work", "telework", "remote work". All these expressions are true and mean, in principle, the same thing. The essence of the work lies in the fact that the employee is not present in the office and does not appear in the company's staffing table and accounting documents.

Freelancer earnings

Freelancers don't like to answer questions from the curious about how much money they've made. Moreover, such questions are considered tactless. But the point is not at all a reluctance to share experience.

A specialist who makes a living on the Internet never knows where, on what content and at what time he will make a profit. Since a freelancer is a free person, he does not work under a contract, and such factors as the cost of future orders, the amount of work performed and the client's generosity index are obviously unknown to him. Therefore, it is impossible to know in advance what kind of earnings a freelancer "waits" on the network today or tomorrow … Unless he himself wants to know about ittell in detail on the pages of your personal blog.

Ingredients of success

A novice freelancer, having barely registered on one of the earnings sites, is unlikely to immediately earn an amount that can be called a decent income. For successful promotion, a beginner needs:

1) acquire the skills to be called a specialist in the provision of one or more services;

2) regularly replenish portfolio, improve and gain new experience;

3) learn to meet the requirements of most customers;

4) do not focus on one task, try to take several orders at once and learn to combine them, switching from one project to another;

5) be constantly in touch with the employer;

6) be diplomatic with customers;

7) do not forget that the timing of the completion of work is no less important than their quality;

8) learn to divide complex work into several stages and do the simplest first, and then the most difficult parts of the work.

Newcomers who have not coped with complex orders often begin to have complexes, agreeing to work for minimal pay. In fact, there is nothing terrible in such tactics if experience comes with small fees and, importantly, the rating on the site that the freelancer has chosen as a platform for earning is rising, albeit slowly.

About income - more details

Experts, who set out to determine the level of income of citizens belonging to different social strata, found out that the earnings of Russian freelancers are approximately twice the salaries of employees whose jobs are tied to offices. According to research, the average monthly salary of a freelancer is about 40 thousand rubles. The richest freelancers are programmers and web designers.

After the results of research on the topic: "Earning a freelancer" were published, the feedback that was received testified to the incompetence of the researchers. According to the freelancers themselves, most of them, contrary to experts' calculations, earn much less than the specified amount (40,000) and their average earnings are formed mainly from several small projects, the cost of each of which ranges from 1 to 3 thousand rubles.

If you really want to…

The most prosperous, according to experts, are IT people. Most employers do not agree with this. The fact is that not every employer agrees to hire freelancers. These free-spirited online job seekers are said by some employers to have a habit of turning down jobs they find difficult to handle. But the remaining 30% of employers say that by inviting remote employees, they save on taxes, wages and rent of premises.

Meanwhile, the majority of people who are satisfied with remote work and freelance earnings (there are 55%), demonstrating high labor productivity, have highereducation and high-quality professional training. According to statistics, only 26% of full-time employees have higher education. A curious fact: the most diligent and educated freelancers turned out to be housewives involved in raising children.

Writing lyrics

Compilation of unique texts, or copyright, as well as modification of ready-made texts, or rewriting, are one of the most common types of earnings on-line. All that a copywriter needs is to correctly express his thoughts, have a personal computer and Internet access. In addition, this type of income has two significant advantages:

earnings on the Internet as a freelance copywriter or rewriter does not include any investment;

not a single customer has ever thought to find out the level of education of a copywriter whose texts meet the requirements

What newbies don't know?

Many potential copywriters are interested in one question: "What problems will a newbie who has just registered on the freelancing exchange face?". A decent income on the Internet as a freelancer is experience, time devoted to mastering the necessary skills and perseverance in achieving your goal. Even a person who writes first-class texts once had to look for customers for the first time.

Looking for orders, freelance copywriters (rewriters) either rush tospecialized exchanges, or advertise on sites where potential performers and employers gather. The latter, as a rule, have a lot of "incredibly profitable" offers, promising unthinkably high profits with a small load. In reality, it often happens that, working without raising his head, the copywriter is left without money: when the moment of reckoning comes, the "employer" either disappears or informs the performer that there will be no payment, since his text is illiterate and uninteresting.

There are so many freelancing scammers that some "young" network workers, faced with several scammers, abandon further attempts to find work on the Internet. Freelancer earnings become “another scam” for them.

However, there are quite a few companies in the Global Network that really pay the employee for his work, without pestering him with promises and talk about dizzying and easy money.

Earnings as a freelancer primarily depend on how much time a person is willing to devote to work (no one will give money just like that). Needless to say, freelancers who work and get paid see this way of making money in a completely different way?

Interaction between client and contractor

The freelancer-employer relationship is one of the most important components of remote work. The adequacy of the client is indicated by such factors as the style of work, the complexity of the tasks, the willingness to pay for someone else's work, a fair assessment of the amount of work andetc. By collaborating with "abnormal" clients, freelancers spend more time and receive much less income.

During the first interaction with the customer, the freelancer must not only make a good impression on the new employer, but also decide for himself whether he will cooperate with this person in the future.

So how much do copywriters earn?

According to the results of the research activities of specialists involved in collecting information on-line, about a fifth of remote workers earn 40-60 thousand rubles, and only 2% of on-line employees managed to overcome the 150,000 mark. Network employees who are engaged in copywriting, but have not yet mastered this profession to perfection, earn from 25 to 40 thousand rubles a month.

The average salary of a freelance copywriter depends, first of all, on the efforts made. People who take their jobs seriously (set their own work schedules and work time correctly) earn about $300 a month. In this profession, money comes with experience. An experienced copywriter can earn $500. e.

Can a person with no skills make money online?

Here are a few options for the simplest earnings:

Collection of information from thematic sites. The essence of the work is as follows: a certain query is entered into the Google search string, after which contact information is collected from all sites that are in the search results. By saving the receivedinformation in a text file, the freelancer exchanges the obtained information for money. The freelancer's earnings in this case depend on his scrupulousness

Checking sites for cross-browser compatibility. The freelancer finds out what the site looks like when opened in different browsers and, after taking screenshots, sends them to the customer, after which he receives payment

Collection of information from the pages of online stores. The contractor collects information about certain products and sends it to the customer. In some cases, clients ask the contractor to rewrite the obtained information in their own words, and then the freelancer's earnings increase

Popular types of earnings on-line also include:

accounting services;

website promotion;

medical, legal and other consultations;

writing comments or evaluating site performance;