You can get higher paying gigs on oDesk if you're willing to do more than carpet bomb categories. Finding good gigs on their takes some time and effort, but it'

You can get higher paying gigs on oDesk if you're willing to do more than carpet bomb categories. Finding good gigs on their takes some time and effort, but it's possible. I did a gig on their that paid a fair amount below what my rate would normally be, but was still above the $10-20 range and I was able to make some good connections from that for more work outside of oDesk. It came at a time when I was trying to pivot from developer to more of a marketing / marketing-dev role and it also provided me some exposure to tools, problems, and tactics that I wasn't familiar with.