A study conducted by invoicing software company Bookipi has unveiled the average earnings of freelancers worldwide.
New research has shed light on the countries where freelancers are paid on average per job, with Australia being the most expensive at a rate of $594.56 (USD) per freelance job, and Columbia being the least expensive a rate of $72.13 (USD) per freelance job. The study, conducted by an Australian invoicing software company Bookipi, which analyzed data from freelancing platform Upwork to determine average freelancer rates across 40 countries.
Egypt ranked 17 worldwide among the least expensive countries at a rate of $157.16 (USD) per freelance job and ranked 4th in Africa after Kenya ($111.99), Tunisia ($136.00), and South Africa ($138.88).
The value is consistent with the indicators of Egypt FWD, as the average cost was $139.50, as the Upwork platform represents the high-cost end of the freelancing platforms.
Methodology
A data scrape of the freelance site Upwork was carried out, to find which countries are charging the most money for freelancing services. A total of 119 countries were initially included in the analysis, but due to data limitations, this left 40 countries that could be compared and ranked fairly, according to Bookipi.
This scrape gathered pricing data on freelancer projects which fell into one of the following ten categories; Logo Design, Video Editing, Data Entry, Virtual Assistant, SEO, Social Media Management, Resume Writing, Creative Writing, Web Programming, Mobile Apps. The starting price and ending price for each project was gathered, and a median price for each project was calculated based on these two figures. The country location of the freelancer hosting the project was also gathered.
For the overall country ranking, the median price of freelance services was based on a minimum of 10 projects for each country, to avoid any anomalies. For the category-specific rankings, a minimum of three project listings were used.
Actual rankings:
01. Australia $594.56
02. India $501
03. Morocco $402.03
04. Saudi Arabia $401.64
05. Turkey $393.88
06. Nepal $382
07. Portugal $380.03
08. Serbia #347.07
09. UK $343.52
10. France $329.71
11. Ukraine $314.51
12. Canada $298.4
13. UAE $285.52
14. Pakistan $284.17
15. China $273.97
16. Macedonia $262.75
17. USA $243.72
18. Vietnam $223.67
19. Italy $201.33
20. Spain $187
21. Poland $186.65
22. Georgia $186.25
23. Nigeria $163
24. Egypt $157.16
25. Malaysia $150
26. Bulgaria $148.12
27. Bangladesh $145.63
28. South Africa $138.88
29. Indonesia $136.44
30. Tunisia $136
31. Romania $113.21
32. Kenya $111.99
33. Sri Lanka $107
34. Philippines $106.70
35. Germany $102.35
36. Venezuela $93.41
37. Jamaica $88.63
38. Argentina $80.84
39. Brazil $79.81
40. Columbia $72.13