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Re:Ask HN: How do I get freelance developer jobs? by OJFord on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:12PM (#13208291)
> finally I got hourly job at $35/h ... It is 1.5 years since I'm on UpWork and I earned around $200K so far.

You're averaging roughly double that $35/h, consistently for a full working week, every week, solely via UpWork?!

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Re:Ask HN: How do I get freelance developer jobs? by lupin_sansei on Monday December 19, 2016 @01:09AM (#13209767)
Interesting. I didn't know you could make so much on UpWork:

"John Shipp, a senior web developer in Brule, Nebraska, who charges $166.67 per hour on the platform, joined it in 2011, before it changed its name to Upwork. About 80% of his business came through Upwork in the first quarter of 2016, he says."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/elainepofeldt/2016/05/03/freelan...

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Re:Ask HN: How do I get freelance developer jobs? by alexee on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:20PM (#13208326)
Yes, solely via UpWork. I got a bit better hourly rate since then, and I usually work around 60h per week.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I get freelance developer jobs? by OJFord on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @12:35PM (#13221961)
Well, kudos for making it work so well!
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