Upwork: Analysis of Freelancer Success Badges: Difference between revisions

According to Upwork's Chief Economist Adam Ozimek, “One-third of U.S. freelancers on Upwork earn at least $50/hour, which would put them in the top 10% of U.S. wage earners overall.”<ref>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/21/high-paying-jobs-for-independent-freelance-workers.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9COne%2Dthird%20of%20U.S.%20freelancers,from%20January%20to%20June%202019</ref> That means during layoffs at least one-third of Upwork's U.S freelancers will likely be affected. Clients will likely replace them with freelancers from less developed economies. Luckily, as found out above, majority of high quality freelancers do not come from U.S. This implies that freelancers from other regions have the potential to take up the work handle by U.S freelancers. The reason for the deviation in the searchable number of high quality freelancers and that given by Upwork is because the company restricts the searchable limit in each category to 5,000 freelancers in order to give each freelancer(no matter the quality) a chance to appear in the search results and get hired<ref>https://community.upwork.com/t5/Support-Forum/About-not-related-search-results/m-p/1120823

https://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/Algorithm-how-Upwork-sorts-Freelancers/m-p/135262</ref>. There are other factors also that can make a freelancer profile not to appear in the search results. These include<ref>https://community.upwork.com/t5/Support-Forum/About-not-related-search-results/m-p/1120823↵↵https://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/Algorithm-how-Upwork-sorts-Freelancers/m-p/135262</ref>;