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Graphic design

You design logos, branding, and marketing materials for clients. You're paid per project, and repeat clients keep the pipeline full.

4.0Last review 2 weeks agoLow data
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Low data. These numbers come from just 2 reviews, so treat them as an early signal, not a reliable average — they'll sharpen as more people report.
Median monthly earnings
$463
Middle 50%: $175 – $750
Effective hourly
$3.75
Earnings over the hours people logged
Hours per week
25 hrs
Median across reviews
Startup cost
$1,000–5,000
To get up and running
Time to first $100
1–3 months
From starting out
Monthly expenses
$300–600
To keep it running
Schedule flexibility
Some fixed commitments
Most common answer
Would recommend it
100%
2 of 2 say yes or probably yes
What people make in a month
Gross earnings people entered themselves, before expenses and taxes. 2 reviews.
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1
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1
0
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0
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0
Under $100
$100–250
$250–500
$500–1,000
$1,000–2,000
$2,000–3,500
$3,500–5,000
$5,000–10,000
$10,000+
By platform
How many reviewers use each platform. Many people work more than one.
Squarespace
1 reviewer
Uber Eats
1 reviewer
How it scores
Happiness8.0 / 10
Would do it again100%
Schedule flexibility3.0 / 5
Pay predictability3.0 / 5
What surprised people most
Every option reviewers could pick, most common first. 2 reviews.
How much time it takes
1
Taxes — how much I owe
1
How competitive the market is
1
How much I could earn
0
How little I could earn
0
How difficult it is to get started
0
How difficult it is to find customers or clients
0
Unexpected expenses
0
Nothing really surprised me
0
Reviews
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Squarespace· 5+ years in · 2 weeks ago
Monthly $500–1,000Hours 120+ hrs/moHourly $5.00

I love being able to bring people’s visions to life and when they tell me I captured exactly what they were looking for. Some advice I would give is that you should go to school for it and by school I mean college. There’s a lot of online tutorials and influencers hosting their own online graphic design classes but after going to a four year university and earning my bachelors degree, I feel like I learned more than any online tutorial could ever teach me. The only thing I would change is maybe try some design platforms other than the standard creative cloud.

Uber Eats· 3–6 months in · 2 weeks ago
Monthly $100–250Hours 60–80 hrs/moHourly $2.50

Flexible hours, inconsistent pay

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