Work from home jobs have been increasing in popularity for years!
And with COVID, the number of people who are actually working from home has increased a ton – a study by Stanford University shows that over 42% of the labor force is currently working from home full time!
So if you’re interested in being one of the people that work from home, here are 30+ jobs you can do from home.
Some of these jobs are full time jobs, a few of the options on here are part time jobs that will help you make a few hundred dollars per month, and some of the other jobs on this list will just help you make extra money.
15+ Full Time Jobs You Can Do From Home
Childcare Provider
This could be a great full-time job if you love working with children!
Your duties could be as simple as just taking care of children (feeding them, changing them, etc) and could include more complicated things like tutoring / homeschooling.
If you just want to care for one or two children at a time, you could make $16 – $20 an hour. If you’re interested in creating a full-blown in-home daycare, you could make thousands each month, depending on how many children you’re taking care of at once.
Megan from Welcome to the Zoo had a home daycare and wrote a post about her income and expenses here.
Average Earnings: Babysitting rates range from $16.50 – $20+ an hour depending on the number of children.
Companies Hiring: You can find babysitting or nanny work in local Facebook groups, or on sites like Care.com
Customer Service
If you don’t have a ton (or any) job experience, or maybe you havea gap in your wokr history, a job in customer service could be a great way to land work from home job with decent pay.
You don’t need any experience in customer service (a lot of companies will train you!), and there are even some companies that will actually provide you with all the necessary equipment needed to work from home.
Average Earnings: $10 – $20 an hour.
Companies Hiring: Apple @ Home, Kelly Services, The Chat Shop
Data Entry
Data entry might involve things like entering information from forms, gathering and organizing data, tagging and categorizing images, etc.
This work can be pretty tedious, but if you don’t mind that type of work, you could make a full-time income from data entry.
Companies Hiring: DionData Solutions, ClickWorker, Lionbridge
Editing and Proofreading
If you’re good at spotting mistakes, you can use that skill to become a proofreader / editor.
You could be editing documents, articles, transcripts, etc.
If you don’t have much experience, you can start with some lower-paying editing and proofreading tasks from sites like mTurk and ClickWorker.
Companies Hiring: Copypress, EditFast, Proofreading Services
ESL Tutor: VIPKid, Magic Ears, QKids
If you have a bachelor’s degree and you’re interested in teaching English online to kids, there are dozens of companies that are hiring!
With ESL tutoring, you don’t need experience, but you will need at least a bachelor’s degree (and sometimes an ESL certificate).
The hours are usually pretty flexible, and some companies will give you bonuses when you teach a certain number of classes.
Average Earnings: $15 – $25+ an hour
Companies Hiring: VIPKid, QKids, Magic Ears
Medical Biller and Coder
If you have the certification and/or experience you could make money by doing medical billing and coding from home.
Medical coders select the codes that correspond to a patient’s diagnosis and services that they had performed, and then the medical biller takes these codes and uses them to bill the insurance company.
Average Earnings: $16+ an hour
Companies Hiring: Lexicode
Pet Sitting
If you love dogs, you could earn a significant income from doing pet sitting from your own home.
You could advertise your services yourself or use Rover, which lets you create a profile and offer pet sitting services to people in your local area.
Average Earnings: $1000 – $3,000+ depending on what services you offer and how many dogs you’re pet sitting.
Companies Hiring: Rover
Photography
If you’re a photographer you can make money from home by selling the licenses to your photos!
You can sell them on places like Shutterstock and Adobe stock. You add your photos to these sites, and when someone purchases a license you will get some of that money.
To increase your earnings you can add your photos to multiple websites.
If you’re interested in other websites where you can sell your photos, we have an article all about making money with stock photos.
Reselling
This is a great job that you could scale up to make over six figures!
Reselling is just getting items for free or cheap, and selling them for a higher price. The items can be new, used, or even broken.
And there’s tons of things that you could sell to make money, it could be clothes, electronics, home items, even food!
If you’re interested in trying reselling, you can start by selling things around your house that you no longer need.
Also check out our post about selling on Poshmark, and our post about selling on eBay.
Average Earnings: $1000+ (if you’re doing it full time)
Search Engine Evaluator
A search engine evaluator is someone that helps improve search engine results by analyzing the results to make sure that they’re relevant and trustworthy.
Average Earnings: $1000+ per month
Companies Hiring: Appen, Lionbridge
Tech Support
If you’re tech-savvy, you could get a job doing tech support from home.
You will be helping customers by trouble-shooting tech items and services for customers.
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Average Earnings: The average salary for Tech Support agents is $58,238 (Salary.com).
Companies Hiring: Apple, Accolade Support
Telemedicine (Nurse / Doctor)
If you’re a doctor or a nurse, you could get a job doing telemedicine from home.
Your duties will vary based on your experience, but you will be providing care to patients remotely over the phone or through video-conferencing.
Average Earnings: $60,000 – $145,000+ per year
Companies Hiring: You can find telemedicine jobs on Indeed.
Transcriptionist
A transcriptionist is someone that converts audio to text. This audio could be YouTube videos, movies, TV shows, podcasts – anything!
Like data entry, this could be a tedious job, but it does pay well!
You can also get started with transcription if you don’t have the experience, but be aware that transcriptions projects are usually paid based on how long the audio hour is, not how long it takes for you to transcribe it, so the faster you go, the more you can make.
Companies Hiring: TranscribeMe, Rev
Virtual Assistant
A virtual assistant is someone that helps business owners or bloggers with tasks.
This is a great job option for almost anyone. If you have specialized experience you can find work, if you don’t have much experience or want to do more general work, you can also find work!
You could be doing more general tasks like email management and scheduling, or more specialized tasks like Pinterest management and graphic design.
If you want to maximize your potential earnings, your best bet is to find your own clients, but if you’re just getting started or don’t want to find your own clients, you can be hired by a company as a virtual assistant.
Average Earnings: $15 – $30+ an hour
Companies Hiring: Fancy Hands, Time Etc.
Web Design
If you have some web design skills you could become a freelance web designer.
You could do fully custom websites, or do more simple projects, like customizing WordPress templates for bloggers and business owners.
This job will require you to put yourself out there and find your own clients / work – so if you’re not confident in selling your skills, you might want to try a different job.
Average Earnings: Average web designer salary is $50,000+
Writing
This is another way to make some extra money if you don’t have a ton of experience.
If you don’t have a lot of experience and you want to get started, you can use freelance sites like Upwork, or content mills like TextBroker to get some work. These sites won’t pay a ton of money, but they do accept absolute beginners.
Once you get some experience and you have a portfolio built, you can start finding your own clients and/or pitching websites and magazines.
If you need some leads for paid writing jobs, we have a list of 67+!
Average Earnings: $.02 – $0.10+ per word
Companies Hiring: UpWork, ProBlogger Job Board
Other Full Time Jobs You Can Do From Home
- Graphic Design
- Social Media Management
- Software Development
Part Time Jobs You Can Do From Home
These jobs won’t replace your full-time income, but you could make a few hundred dollars per month with these jobs:
AirBnB Host
You could earn a good amount of money by renting out either a room in your home or your entire home on Airbnb.
Depending on what type of space you have to rent out (room, full house, etc), and how many guests you can accommodate, you could make anywhere from a few hundred dollars to over a thousand dollars per month.
Average Earnings: $100 – $1000+
Focus Group Participant
A focus group is a group of people that are brought together by a company to give their opinion on products and services.
Focus group are commonly done in-person, but the number of online focus groups have been increasing.
Focus group participants will give given a product to test or a service to use, after using it they will be asked their opinions about it so the company can improve the product or service.
You could make anywhere from $50 – $500 an hour for participating in a focus group.
Average Earnings: $50 – $500 an hour
Companies Hiring: American Consumer Opinion, Survey Junkie, FocusGroup
Telephone Mystery Shopper
Companies will pay people to test out their customer service, or checkout process by having them pose as a secret shopper.
You can actually complete some of these mystery shops over the phone from home!
Average Earnings: $5 – $30 per call
Companies Hiring: Arc Consulting, InteliChek, Shoppers’ Choice
Survey Taker
I’ve been taking paid surveys on and off for more than five years now! It’s still one of my favorite ways to make extra money, and you can easily make a few hundred dollars each month.
My favorite websites for taking paid surveys is PaidViewpoint, Prolific, and Survey Junkie.
If you’d like to learn about other survey sites that actually pay cash, we have a post about it!
Average Earnings: $0 – $500 per month
Website Tester
Companies want to make sure that their websites are user-friendly and everything works as intended.
They will pay people (you!) to test out their sites and give their opinions about the site and any issues that come up.
If you’re interested in this side hustle, check out our post about website testing! It includes 8+ sites that will pay you to test websites and the average earning for each site.
Average Earnings: $10 – $30 per website test
Make Extra Cash From Home
If you just want to make an extra $50 – $200 per month, check out these options:
Sell Stock Photos
If you’re a photographer (or aspiring one!), you can license out your photos to let other people use on their websites, videos, or other marketing materials.
This might not be something that will replace your income, but since you just upload the photos and collect the money when a license is sold, it’s a great source of passive income!
If you’re interested in making money with your photos, check our post on Making Money With Stock Photos.
Average Earnings: $0-$500 per month (depends on how many photos you have for sale, and how many licenses you sell).
Sell Unused Gift Cards
I know you have at least a few giftcards lying around that you haven’t used and will never use!
You can sell them on websites like Raise for cash. You won’t get the full value of the gift card of course, but if you’re not going to be using that card at all, any little bit is nice to have!
Where to Find Other Jobs You Can Do From Home
If you want to look for other part time or full time work from home jobs here are some websites that you can use to search:
General Remote Job Websites
Tech-Focused Job Websites
Freelance and Contractor Job Websites
Final Thoughts
There’s a lot of opportunities out there for people who want to work from home.
It’s definitely possible to replace your full-time income and make even more if you want!
It’s also possible to just make a few hundred dollars to supplement your income if that’s all you need.
Just make sure you watch out for work from home job scams.
FAQs
What kind of work can I do from home?
There are tons of jobs you can do from home, some of the more common options are medical billing and coding, virtual assistant, bookkeeping, freelance writing, tutoring, software development, and transcription.
What are the best jobs to work from home?
Some of the higher paying work from home jobs include: web designer, freelance writer, and virtual assistant.