The median Upwork freelancer with $10K+ in public earnings advertises $30/hr, across 11,743 profiles as of Oct 31, 2026. Among skills with at least 100 profiles, the median runs from $55/hr for Fractional CFOs to $8/hr for Data Collection Specialists.
Every figure is the hourly rate printed on a public Upwork profile, for freelancers who have already earned $10,000 or more there; newer profiles are not in the sample. Each skill's page gives the middle half, the top and bottom tenth, and the median by track record and country. A skill gets a page once 30 profiles list it. For agency pricing see the average agency rate.
The low end of each agency's published hourly range, median per category (categories with 50+ agencies). Each links to its full breakdown by badge, team size, track record and country.