What Is Freelance Work?
Basically, freelance work is work or employment where a person works for themselves, rather than for a company. While freelancers do take on contract work for companies and organizations, they are self-employed.
Freelancers are responsible for all sorts of things that traditional employees are not. For example, setting their work hours, keeping track of time spent on various projects, billing or invoicing clients, and paying their employment and business taxes. Freelancers are not “employees” of the companies they work for, but instead “contractors.”
The various forms of “Freelance Jobs.”
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When you’re searching for freelance work, there are several different terms to be aware of. These can be used to help you find freelance job openings, and they’re also useful when describing yourself and the work you do to potential clients.
- Freelance job: A widely-used term to find freelance jobs.
- Contract work: Work where you’re a temporary contract worker, as opposed to a permanent employee.
- Contract job: Same as contract work.
- Independent contractor: Another common way to classify a freelancer. Your work terms and conditions are specified by a contract with another company or individual. This is how the IRS classifies this type of work.
- 1099: Used to describe the type of work. For example, “This is a 1099 contract position.” Refers to the IRS form an independent contractor fills out: form 1099-MISC.
- Contract consultant: A person or expert hired for temporary consultations for specific issues within a company.
- Contract-to-hire: A job that begins as a freelance or independent contractor position but could become a regular employee position if things go well.
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