How Much Money Can A Person Earn At A Freelance Site?

The amount of money that a person can earn at freelance site depends on many things. The earnings can vary from person to person due to different factors that influence the earnings. Some people may make more money than they could make via doing a full time day job. On the other hand, other people may only be able to earn few bucks per month at freelance sites.

What are the main factors that have influence on the money that a person can earn at freelance sites?

The most important factor is the type of job that we choose to do. Some jobs pay good money where others pay low. Here is a list of jobs that pays good:

List A
Coding In PHP, ASP, .NET and other in demand languages
Website designing
Setting up sites, installing scripts at servers, creating Wordpress blogs and other jobs that has something to do with sites and hosting
Work related to JavaScript
SEO [Search Engine Optimization]
Copywriting
Etc

And here is a list of jobs that pay less money:

List B
Simple typing work
Image editing
Document formatting
Copy/paste job
Online data searching
Translation
Online form filling
Etc

So if a person chooses to do a job from List A, then he/she will obviously earn more money compared to a person who will choose to do a job from List B.

Why will anyone choose to do a job from List B?

The answer is quite simple. Not everybody have the skills that are required to do jobs mentioned in the List A. For example: to do PHP coding, one need to have good knowledge about PHP language. One needs to learn and practice in this coding language if he wants to do any PHP work at a freelance site. Learning PHP can take months or years.

Other example includes copywriting work where people will need to have excellent English Content Writing Skills.

So the bottom line is that the type of job that you choose to do at freelance site will influence the amount of money that you can make at freelancing sites.