From Entrepreneur, Catherine Clifford reports on the increase in the number of independent contractors making more than $100,000 per year. Catherine writes:
An ever increasing number of independent contractors are making at least six figures.
There are going to be 3.8 million independent contractors by 2020 making more than $100,000 a year, according to estimates from the self-employed professional service provider, MBO Partners.
In 2015, 2.9 million full-time independent contractors were making more than $100,000. That is more than 16 percent of the 17.8 million full-time independent contractors in the U.S. in 2015, according to research from Herndon, Va.-based MBO Partners.
That means almost one in five full-time freelancers were turning six-figure salaries last year.
The research was highlighted in MBO’s recent report, published in April, calling for a new federal worker classification for the burgeoning category of worker. It proposed the CSE, or Certified Self-Employed.
Read the full story at The Rise of the 6-Figure Freelancer
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