5 Remote Side Jobs That Could Earn You Thousands a Year

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Want to create some breathing room in your budget? Along with cutting back on non-essential spending, many Americans are looking for remote side jobs to increase their income. If you can find the right remote side job, you can work from home and make money online — without a time-consuming commute or other hassles of a regular job.

Here are a few well-paying remote side jobs we found listed on Indeed.

1. CRM and email marketing specialist ($26,250 per year)

This remote job involves doing small business marketing and customer relationship management (CRM) for a security risk management company. It pays $25 to $35 per hour and requires five to 15 hours per week.

How much you can make with this remote side job: Assuming you get paid the top level of $35 per hour and work 15 hours per week for 50 weeks per year, you could make $26,250 per year with this remote side job.

2. Online fitness coach and personal trainer ($24,000 per year)

This remote side job requires some experience as a personal trainer or fitness coach, with certification preferred. Working online as a fitness coach, you’ll help people with personalized fitness plans, support, guidance, and progress tracking.

How much you can make with this remote side job: The job listing is unclear about part-time pay, so assuming half of the low end of the listed full-time pay range, you could make $2,000 per month or $24,000 per year.

3. Online academic tutor for high school English and writing ($19,500 per year)

Do you have a passion for English and writing? You could get a remote side job as an online tutor. This job offers $16 to $26 per hour based on geographic location, and you must have a Bachelor’s degree completed or in progress.

This job has flexible hours with preferred availability during afternoons, evenings, and weekends — which could make it a great fit as a remote side job if you want to earn extra money outside of regular business hours.

How much you can make with this remote side job: Assuming you can get paid the top-level rate of $26 per hour and work 15 hours per week for 50 weeks per year, this remote side job could pay about $19,500 per year.

4. Bookkeeper using QuickBooks ($21,380 per year)

If you have QuickBooks Online Bookkeeping skills, this remote side job is hiring. The pay is $20.25 to $21.38 per hour, with a maximum schedule of 20 hours per week.

How much you can make with this remote side job: Assuming you get the top end of the pay range and work 20 hours per week for 50 weeks per year, you could earn $21,380 per year.

5. Facilities coordinator for on-call weekend support ($8,125 per year)

Are you a night owl who doesn’t mind working on weekends? This part-time remote side job needs a reliable person to provide overnight on-call support for emergency and urgent situations, every other weekend, for a company that provides facility maintenance. You’ll have to be responsive, detail-oriented, and able to coordinate communication among multiple colleagues in different locations.

How much you can make with this remote side job: This position pays $312.50 per 12.5-hour weekend on-call shift from Friday at 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday. Assuming you work 26 weekends per year (approximately every other weekend), you’d get paid $8,125 per year.

Bottom line

Job sites like Indeed and FlexJobs have thousands of job listings, and many of them are remote side jobs. You can search for remote jobs, flexible schedules, part-time work, and more. Some remote side jobs will require you to live in a certain location and have credentials or licenses — such as some online teaching jobs. Other sites to look for remote side jobs include Fiverr, Freelancer.com, and Upwork.

What if you could make an extra $1,000 per month (or more) from a remote side job? It feels incredibly empowering to see extra money in your savings account each month, above and beyond your regular paycheck. More companies are looking to hire talented people like you for remote side jobs — go see what opportunities are waiting.

Note: Exact details of each job’s weekly or monthly work hours are not always publicly available and may vary, but we confirmed publicly listed hourly or monthly wages for each job on this list. We calculated the estimated yearly income based on 50 weeks per year of work.

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