Freelance Economic Impact Report

A growing number of Americans are choosing to pursue flexibility and autonomy in their career paths, fueling a substantial uptick in the number of freelancers around the country. For independent professionals ranging from AI consultants and architects to web developers and graphic designers, dissecting, quantifying, and fully grasping this segment of the workforce can pose a challenge. In collaboration with Illuminas, this report continues to be a leading analysis of the size and growth of independent professionals across the country, as well as an interesting look at their population in specific metro areas.

For the fourteenth year, Fiverr’s Freelance Economic Impact Report analyzes nearly 30 million tax returns from annually compiled Non-Employer U.S. Census Bureau statistics to explore the size, growth, and skills of independent professionals across the 30 largest metropolitan cities for independent knowledge-based work. This report is a crucial resource for understanding the opportunities for independent work and its impact on local metro areas, as well as for understanding the rising demand for this type of work.