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According to Upwork, top rated freelancers alone represent 10% of freelancers in the platform. Given that Upwork claims to have over 12 million freelancers that would be around [[Upwork: Seniority Level of Freelancers|1.2 million]] freelancers. However, the searchable number of high quality freelancers is what matters the most as these are the most active freelancers in the platform. We have explained [[Upwork: Analysis of Quality of Freelancers#Conclusion|below]] how a freelancer can fail to appear in the search results.(When does a Freelancers become non searchable?) | According to Upwork, top rated freelancers alone represent 10% of freelancers in the platform. Given that Upwork claims to have over 12 million freelancers that would be around [[Upwork: Seniority Level of Freelancers|1.2 million]] freelancers. However, the searchable number of high quality freelancers is what matters the most as these are the most active freelancers in the platform. We have explained [[Upwork: Analysis of Quality of Freelancers#Conclusion|below]] how a freelancer can fail to appear in the search results.(When does a Freelancers become non searchable?) | ||
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# Understand where these high quality freelancers are coming from. If they are not concentrated in U.S only, that will be an advantage to the platform during macro weakness as clients can shift hiring to less developed countries(eg India and Philippines) where wages is low. | # Understand where these high quality freelancers are coming from. If they are not concentrated in U.S only, that will be an advantage to the platform during macro weakness as clients can shift hiring to less developed countries(eg India and Philippines) where wages is low. | ||