In an article in today’s (Thursday January 28th, 2016) Wall Street Journal, the topic of what is called a “Healthy Freelance Market” was described. Freelancers, the article reported, are a part of “A new class of private marketplace that connects software developers with corporations eager to hire people with the latest tech skills…”. This “new economy” approach to finding the “right” tech help for one’s company allows corporations the ability to assemble a team of programmers and coders who may live hundreds – if not thousands – of miles away from each other.
The employers and corporations may be benefiting from this globalization of the talent pool, but the software developers themselves are as well benefiting. By doing Freelance work through such websites as www.IndiaFreelancers.com, these young tech savvy programmers and web developers may easily earn as much as $100 to $200 an hour – in a country (India, for example) where such an income might represent a month’s work in a more traditional industry. Talented freelancers are able to earn, in some cases, as much as $278,400 per year! Some of the most coveted skills which command the highest incomes include JavaScript, WordPress skills, Database mastery and other relevant technological expertise areas.
According to a study reported by the Edelman Berland research firm in 2015, there are more than 53 million Americans doing Freelancer work. In a country with a population which approaches almost three times the population of the United States, one can imagine that in India that figure for the number of Freelancers may be as high as close to 160 million Freelancers – and a great amount of them finding work on www.IndiaFreelancers.com!
As the age of the Internet progresses and our planet increasingly becomes smaller, we can expect that the growth of Freelancers able to command lofty salaries will increase. More importantly, as computers increasingly become an indispensable part of our lives, so will the presence of those who help us with these machines become indispensable.
Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com
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