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Parents, caregivers, and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities are often in the market for work-from-home roles, as are people who are simply looking for more flexible hours or the ability to work from anywhere. Some of these roles are part-time and may require you to find work with multiple clients at once while others are full-time roles.
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If you’re hoping to work from home, there’s a wealth of jobs available, requiring a variety of skills and experience levels—and many of them pay salaries comparable to full-time, on-site jobs. Here are 17 roles you should consider:
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Website testers assess websites and web applications for quality and usability on multiple devices, including desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. Testers visit a website or use an app, complete a few tasks, and share their insights. They give honest feedback on usability and clarity as well as their engagement level with the content. The average hourly rate is $25.
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Bloggers write about products, services or their particular interests online. A company might hire an individual in a remote position to create blog content as a core job task, or they might contract someone out remotely as a contributor.
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Additionally, if you can create, promote and maintain your own successful blog, you could work for yourself running your own blog. National average salary: $56,673 per year
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Customer care or service representatives answer client questions, solve their problems, and help them with orders over the phone or digitally, and it’s one of the easiest work-from-home jobs to break into. Most entry-level reps earn about $12 an hour but more experienced reps average about $15.50 an hour, with an average hourly rate of $14.
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Virtual assistants do everything from scheduling appointments to conducting research. Some positions focus solely on administrative tasks like maintaining calendars and schedules and invoicing clients while others require experience in copywriting and social media management.
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Positions pay an average of about $15 an hour but can go up to $20 an hour for candidates with public relations, writing and editing, and social media skills. Most virtual assistants work directly with several clients at a time.
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Similar to traditional teachers, online educators provide instruction for specific subjects, prepare lesson plans, and monitor student progress. This position is perfect for anyone with a teaching degree and a specific skill such as fluency in a foreign language. You’ll teach a class via an online platform such as Zoom or Google Meet.
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Positions include not just kindergarten through 12th grade but college and continuing education in all subject areas. Most positions pay about $25 an hour but you could make as much as $100 to $200 an hour for one-on-one instruction.
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Transcriptionists listen to voice recordings and convert them into documents. Medical and law offices use transcriptionists to type out dictated notes from doctors and lawyers. Most firms require an understanding of medical terms and practices or legal jargon.
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Beginning transcriptionists typically make about $13 per hour, but more experienced transcriptionists often make about $20 an hour.
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Captioners transcribe pre-recorded audio and video, so typing quickly and accurately is an essential skill for this job. You can also sign up to caption live television programs, though many people who do this have also worked as court reporters and use a stenotype machine with a phonetic keyboard and special software to ensure accuracy. Captioners earn an average of about $14 an hour.
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Online therapists provide mental health support in real time through digital platforms such as video conferencing, phone calls, or text messaging. You’ll need to have a master’s degree in psychology or social work and unrestricted license to practice online, so there’s an upfront investment.
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But there is increasing demand for telehealth services that connect patients and heathcare providers. Most online therapists make $18 to $40 per hour.
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An SEO (or search engine optimization) specialist analyzes, reviews, and implements changes to websites to maximize the number of people visiting the website and improve the site’s rank on search engines.
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Most positions require at least one year of experience and familiarity with industry SEO tools and techniques such as Google Analytics and website building platforms like Squarespace. Most SEO specialists earn between $13 and $27 an hour.
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A number of companies will pay you to take surveys to give them your honest opinion about games, movies, consumer products, and general interest topics. Payment ranges from $1 to $20 per completed survey. There are a number of research companies you can sign up with to take surveys including 2020 Research.
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A proofreader ensures written content is free of grammatical, spelling, punctuation, and formatting errors. If you have attention to detail and are familiar with the AP Stylebook and the Chicago Manual of Style, you can make an average of about $18 an hour proofreading for advertising agencies, websites, public relations firms, and textbook writers.
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This work is extremely flexible and can be done on your own schedule provided you meet the deadline for proofreading the document.
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If you have experience invoicing clients, running payroll, and managing accounts, you can easily find a virtual bookkeeping position by contracting directly with a local company or signing up with an agency such as Bookminders; many require a bachelor’s degree in accounting and knowledge of QuickBooks. Most virtual bookkeeping positions pay about $16 to $21 an hour.
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A notary public acts as a representative of the state to certify the proper execution of documents such as real estate transactions, powers of attorney, and prenuptial agreements. If you’re certified as a public notary, you can also get certified, bonded, and insured as a mobile notary.
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If you don’t feel comfortable inviting strangers to your home, you can offer to meet them at their office, a hospital, or other location. The average pay is $15 an hour but ranges from about $10 to $24 in most cases.
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This position will require you to become a Certified Professional Coder to accurately read a patient’s medical chart, analyze it, determine their diagnoses, and then categorize the diagnoses and medical procedures according to a national classification system that enables physicians to submit medical claims to insurers.
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The average hourly pay is about $18.50 an hour. You could contract directly with a local physician’s office or reach out to the American Association of Professional Coders or the American Health Information Management Association to find a job.
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More technology companies are moving their positions from office to flexible or remote roles. If you have a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, completed a bootcamp program, or have other comparable programming experience, you could look for full-time job listings that offer flexible or remote work locations. The average pay is $12 to $44 an hour.
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More technology companies are moving their positions from office to flexible or remote roles. If you have a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, completed a bootcamp program, or have other comparable programming experience, you could look for full-time job listings that offer flexible or remote work locations. The average pay is $12 to $44 an hour.
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If you have experience in digital marketing or branding, you can help companies create coordinated campaigns using SEO, email marketing, social media, and more. Payment varies greatly from about $14 to $102 per hour for most work, depending on your experience and proven track record as a marketer.
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Many companies outsource remote social media professionals. Social media managers oversee a company's social media channels. They reply to comments, develop social media campaigns and create content for each of the company's social media platforms.
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Overall, they act as the voice of the brand and help companies improve their online presence. National average salary: $56,202 per year