Remote Freelance Work

Here are the three best job search websites we found for a full range of remote, freelance gigs: 

Flex Jobs
Most advanced search options; focus on part-time and temporary work. 

Skip the Drive
Search by multiple categories, including entry-level, flexible, and part-time; positions in many fields. 

We Work Remotely
Search by job category; mostly full-time options but contract work and part-time as well.  

And here are some more specialized sites which offer job opportunities with minimal or no experience required:

College Essay Coaching

Prompt
4-hour-per-week minimum time commitment when volume allows, and applicants who are generally available 10+ hours a week are prioritized. Each paper has an associated fixed payment, based on the paper’s length and the editor’s pay tier. Trainees are paid an effective rate of $20 per hour, and full members $25-28 per hour. The average editor earns around $5,000 for the admissions season, with many earning $10,000+. 

Transcription

SpeakWrite
Flexible hours; 15 hours per month minimum. Typists are paid one-half cent per word, with some shifts offering a 10% bonus. Payment is made twice a month.

Audio Transcription Center
Flexible hours, paid weekly, choose your own schedule. Transcribe oral history interviews (with WWII veterans, women in academia, farmers, midwives…), focus groups, financial forecasts or quarterly reports, tech webinars, commencement addresses, interviews about NGO work, educational reform or health care access, or anything else you could think of, and even occasionally TV shows. Typing skills required, but no experience necessary.

Rev
Flexible hours. Paid weekly via PayPal for all work completed. Range of pay for transcription is $0.30-$1.10 per minute of audio/video; range of pay for captioning is $0.54-$1.10 per minute of audio/video. Typing skills required, but no experience necessary.

GMR Transcriptors
Flexible hours. Transcriptionists typically earn between $1,000 to $3,000 per month, depending on skillset and the type of work you choose to take on. Typing skills required, but no experience necessary.

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