Six-Figure Earners Are a Growing Share of U.S. ‘Gig’ Workforce
- America’s full-time freelancers are finding financial success
- Number of full-time, self-employed contingent workers is down
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A growing share of full-time freelancers in the U.S. are finding success in striking out alone.
While the number of self-employed Americans working at least 15 hours per week on a consulting, freelance, contract, or on-call basis fell this year by 700,000 to 16.2 million, the portion of those independent workers earning over $100,000 per year hit a new high, jumping 4.9 percent to 3.2 million, according to an annual survey released Tuesday by MBO Partners, Inc., a Virginia-based group which provides business services to independent contractors. The share of so-called “high-earning independents” is up over 60 percent in figures going back to 2011.