Earn Money With Typing Jobs From Home: 3 Types of Jobs and What They Pay

Type Your Way to a Career

Typing jobs from home are becoming a mainstay for people who want to continue to earn income, but don't want to commute to a job. Moms that want to take care of their kids, college students that want to earn spare cash, disabled people who can't travel to work and retired folks alike have embraced the Internet to enable them to work from home typing.

There are a few items you'll need to begin typing at home, but writing opportunities are plentiful, thanks to the World Wide Web and people's ability to virtually connect to a variety of different employers.

What Kinds of Typing Jobs Are There and How Much Do They Pay?

Three of the more common categories of typing jobs from home are data entry, freelance writers and virtual assistants.

Data entry can consist of things like online surveys, placing online ads, and medical or legal transcription. As a data entry "keyer," you may enter numbers, lists of different items, customer information or medical records into forms in special software.

Data entry workers are typically trained on the job and may only be required to have a high school education. As of 2009, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics said the average salary of a data entry worker was between $13.46 and $16.03 per hour.

A freelance writer may write articles, blog and forum entries, web site text, newsletters, and e-mails. This kind of typing job requires strong writing skills in addition to typing skills. Freelance employment contracts are usually short, typically from one to three months. However, if you do a good job, you may find that the same people ask for your services over and over again, eventually allowing you to charge more money for your skill as a freelancer.

Freelancers can make between $10 and $16 an hour or more, depending upon their experience. This type of job is typically done by the project, so the amount you earn per hour largely depends on how fast your able to get things done.

A virtual assistant may perform a variety of secretarial duties such as scheduling meetings and appointments, handling correspondence, dictating letters and reports, or researching and managing projects.
All of these require:

• Typing information into multiple different documents,
• Utilizing word processing, spreadsheet, and data software programs.

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2009, the average salary of a Virtual Assistant was $14.93 per hour.

Where can I find freelance work?

A typical typing project can be found on one of several freelance boards. The freelance boards bring together people who post projects to be done, and creative people who bid on and complete the jobs that are posted.

Craigslist, elance.com, freelance.com, guru.com, oDesk.com, ifreelance.com are just a few examples, but there are many more. Do a Google search for "freelance," and you'll find even more options.
To locate Outsourcing Agencies that broker hundreds, or even thousands, of typing jobs, do a Google search as though you are the client who is looking for reliable typing services. The search results you will get from this will give you a highly useful list of Outsourcing Agencies who actively recruit qualified workers.
By signing with one or more Outsourcing Agencies, you likely will be assigned multiple jobs. This will enable you to take on as many hours of paid work as you want and can manage effectively ---and at a high quality level.

Dr. Carolee Duckworth is an online work expert, earning her own living online for 12 years & teaching 1000s of others how. She designed and initiated College-Online.com---providing significant work advancement for tens of thousands of working adults since 1996. Learn how to earn money with typing jobs from home, starting with her FREE e-course and her downloadable eBook, "The Definitive Webworker's Guide: 35 Secrets of How to Work Online and Earn Money", both available at WorkOnlineandEarn.com.