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> full-time freelancers now make up 28% of freelancers (up 11 points since 2014) Only a little over a quarter of those are ONLY freelancing.

• mberning 8y ago
  Still seems high to me. Even in the software world I don't run into that many people that purely freelance. Many people moonlight as developers though, so I could see it being true if we looked at it as only part time supplemental income, but that is not how this is worded. Maybe it was just over represented in their sample. Looks like it was only 6k people.
  • drawkbox 8y ago
    In the software world it is probably higher than the 1 in 10 full-time freelancers [1][2] vs full/part combined of 35% of the total workforce. [1] https://qz.com/work/1324292/gig-economy-data-why-the-us-department-of-labor-numbers-are-misleading/ https://qz.com/work/1324292/gig-economy-data-why-the-us-depa... [2] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.nr0.htm https://www.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.nr0.htm
• drawkbox 8y ago
  According to this study [1][2], the fulltime gig/freelance/contractors are at 10-11% and full and part-time combined are at 35% of the total workforce. [1] https://qz.com/work/1324292/gig-economy-data-why-the-us-department-of-labor-numbers-are-misleading/ https://qz.com/work/1324292/gig-economy-data-why-the-us-depa... [2] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.nr0.htm https://www.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.nr0.htm