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

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

Earnings of a freelancer

Freelancers do not like to answer the questions of the curious about the amount of money they have earned. Moreover, such questions are considered tactless. But it's not about reluctance to share experience.

A specialist earning a living on the Internet never knows where, on what content and at what time he will make a profit. Since the freelancer is a free man, he does not work under contract, and factors such as the cost of future orders, the number of jobs performed and the customer's generosity index are unknown to him. Therefore, it is impossible to know in advance what earnings of a freelancer "wait" in the network today or tomorrow ... Unless he wants to tell about it in detail on the pages of his personal blog.

Components of success

A beginner freelancer, having barely registered at one of the earnings sites, is unlikely to immediately earn a sum that can be called a decent earnings. To successfully advance the beginner, you need:

1) master the skills that allow him to be called a specialist in providing one or more services;

2) regularly replenish the portfolio, improve and acquire 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) always be in touch with the employer;

6) to be diplomatic in relation to customers;

7) do not forget that the deadlines for the completion of work are no less important than their quality;

8) learn to divide complex work into several stages and perform first the simplest, and then - the most complex areas of work.

Beginners who do not cope with complex orders often begin to complex, agreeing to work for a minimum payment. In fact, in this tactic there is nothing terrible, if the "bundled" with small fees is experience and, importantly, albeit slowly, but the rating on the site that the freelancer has chosen as a site for earnings increases.

On income - in more detail

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

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

If you really want to ...

The most prosperous, according to experts, are IT people. Most employers disagree with this. The fact is that not every employer agrees to accept freelancers in the staff. These freedom-loving earners in the network, according to some employers, have a habit of giving up jobs that they find it difficult to handle. But the remaining 30% of employers note that by inviting remote employees, they save on taxes, salaries and rent of premises.

Meanwhile, the majority of people who are satisfied with the remote job and earnings of the freelancer (55% of them), demonstrating high labor productivity, have higher education and high professional training. According to statistics, only 26% of employees, working on a permanent basis, have higher education. Curious fact: the most diligent and educated freelancers were housewives, engaged in the upbringing of children.

Writing texts

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

• Earnings on the Internet as a freelancer-copywriter or as a rewriter do not foresee any investment;

• Yet it never occurred to any customer to find out the level of education of the copywriter, the texts of which correspond to the requirements set.

What do not novices know about?

Many potential co-payers are interested in one question: "What problems will a newcomer who has just registered on the freelancing exchange?". Worthy earnings on the Internet by a freelancer are experience, time devoted to mastering the necessary skills and perseverance in achieving the goal. Even a person who writes first-class texts, once had to first look for customers.

Looking for orders, freelancers-copywriters (reraytery) either rush to specialized exchanges, or advertise on the sites where potential performers and employers gather. On the latter, as a rule, there is a mass of "incredibly profitable" offers, promising unthinkably high profits with a small load. In fact, it often happens that, working without looking up, the copywriter is left without money: when the moment of reckoning comes, the "employer" either disappears, or tells the performer that there will not be a payment, since his text is illiterate and uninteresting.

Scammers in freelancing are so great that some "young" network workers, confronted with several scams, leave further attempts to find a job on the Internet. The earnings of the freelancer becomes for them "another divorce".

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

Earnings freelancers primarily depends on how much time a person is willing to devote to work (just because no one will give money). Needless to say, freelancers who work and receive payment look quite differently in this way of making a profit?

Interaction of the client with the performer

The "freelancer-employer" relationship is one of the most important components of a remote job. On the adequacy of the client say such factors as the style of work, the complexity of tasks, the willingness to pay for someone else's work, a fair assessment of the amount of work and so on. Cooperating with "abnormal" clients, freelancers, spending more time, receive much less income.

During the first interaction with the customer, a freelancer needs to 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 research activities of specialists engaged in gathering 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 thousandth line. Workers of the network who copywriting, but still do not master this profession in perfection, earn from 25 to 40 thousand rubles a month.

The average salary of a freelancer-copywriter depends, first of all, on the efforts made. People who take their work seriously (make up a personal work schedule and correctly calculate working time), earn about $ 300 a month. In this profession, money comes with experience. An experienced copywriter can earn 500 y. E.

Can a person without any skills earn online?

Here are a few options for simple earnings:

• Collection of information from thematic sites. The essence of the work is as follows: Google enters a specific query into the search box, after which contact information is collected from all the sites that are in the issue. Having saved the received information in a text file, the freelancer exchanges the extracted information for money. The earnings of a freelancer in this case depend on his scrupulousness.

• Checking sites for cross-browser compatibility. Freelancer finds out how the site looks, being open in different browsers and, after making screenshots, sends them to the customer, and then receives payment.

• Collection of information from the pages of online stores. The executor collects information about certain goods and sends it to the customer. In some cases, customers ask the performer to rewrite the information they have extracted in their own words, and then the earnings of the freelancer increase.

The popular types of earnings on-line also include:

• Accounting services;

• website promotion;

• Medical, legal and other consultations;

• Writing comments or evaluating the work of the site;

• Writing comment responses on the "questionnaire" sites;

• Recommendations concerning the modernization of sites and online stores.