Despite a low unemployment rate and strong labor market, US workers often turn to side jobs for additional income, according to a Monday Flex-Jobs blog post. One-third of Americans said they need side jobs to supplement their income from a full time job, and nearly half of millennial’s turn to the gig economy for extra cash.
To help employees find the most beneficial side jobs, FlexJobs created a list of the 15 most common side jobs, with compensation data from PayScale.
Here are the best, most flexible side jobs for working Americans, according to FlexJobs:
- Customer Service Representative: $14/hr
- Editor: $20/hr
- ESL Teacher: $20/hr
- Graphic Designer: $17/hr
- Interpreter: $20/hr
- Management Consultant: $60/hr
- Medical Coder: $18/hr
- Photographer: $16/hr
- Proofreader: $18/hr
- Sales Representative: $15/hr
- Social Media Manager: $16/hr
- Transcriber: $15/hr
- Tutor : $18/hr
- Virtual Assistant: $16/hr
- Writer: $20/hr
For more, check out How the gig economy will change in 2019
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