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Everyone knows that there are many different ways work from home and make a good income nowadays. But not all will provide steady work and good pay. Most of these jobs will do both of these things at the same time. Providing a good income from home. That’s what we all want.
This is just ten job categories, there are more that will also pay good income from home. For some of these jobs, you may need to work for multiple companies at once to piece together enough income. But considering how many companies are hiring for some of these jobs it should be pretty easy to do that. Take a look.
1. Customer Service Jobs
I know this is certainly not a new work from home job, but the potential pay may surprise you. It’s hard to believe that customer service jobs could pay a good income from home. For example, American Express hires customer service agents to work from home and starts out most newbies at $16 bucks an hour. That amount can go up over time and could be over $25 per hour. They only hire in certain U.S. States and the job requires you to work 40 hours a week.
There are many other companies paying good wages for work from home customer service agents. Such as Arise, Pleio, Working Solutions, and NextRep, and Blue Zebra Appointment all pay between $15-$30 per hour depending on the company.
Arise is a company that hires customer services agents for different clients. The pay will be from $10-$20 an hour depending on the client at the time. This job is only for the U.S. and allows you to work as much as you want.
Pleio hires people to call patients and remind them to take their medications on time. They pay between $15-$20 per hour.
Working Solutions hires people to do a variety of customer service tasks. The pay is by project and can be up to $30 an hour. They offer services for remote agents, telemarketing, and CRM solutions.
NextRep hires people as sales representatives and customer service agents to take inbound and outbound calls. This job is commission based and the pay is up to $25 per hour.
Blue Zebra Appointment hires people in the U.S. and Canada to set appointments. The pay is up to $25 depending on the experience.
2. Tutoring Jobs
For those who are good at taking tests and obviously you need to know educational subjects like math, english, science, etc. There are many companies that hire at home tutors. Some of these jobs may require some type of bachelors degree.
InstaEdu is a company that hires tutors to teach students online about different school subjects. You will use video chats, text messaging, or Skype for the tutoring and the pay is between $20-$30 per hour.
Manhattan Prep pays up to $100 an hour.
Chegg allows you to work on your schedule and preferences. This company pays around $20 per hour.
A Pass Educational Group hires people to be experts in educational subjects like math, science, etc. This job pays between $20-$30 an hour.
These are just some of the online tutoring companies that hire you to work from home.
3. Web Designing Jobs
You will need to already know how to do web design and related skills. You will need to know how to write computer code. Web design can require basic coding all the way up to advanced coding knowledge. This will depend on the company you work for and the tasks required.
Github hires for coding jobs like being a developer. Annual salaries can be $60k.
ArtLogic also hires positions like developers and they pay around $20 per hour.
SitePen hires developers, but also hires project managers, software engineers, and JavaScript engineers as well.
There are other companies that have steady work and income for those experienced with web design and coding.
4. Medical Jobs
Most of these jobs will require some experience and some may only hire registered or licensed health care practitioners. These jobs still provide the convenience of being at home and decent pay.
Humana pays around $15-$18 per hour for work at home. They hire people for customer service and you respond to questions and provide information to external and internal customers.
Amphion Medical hires medical coders and requires one year of experience at least. This pays around $25 an hour.
Carenet hires registered nurses and pays about $25 per hour. The job is to provide telephone triage, where you take calls from people seeking a diagnosis.
Precyse hires medical coders for programming and pays between $20-$30 an hour.
These are just some of the medical jobs that provide steady work and income from home.
5. Website Testing Jobs
This will require you to sign up with multiple companies at once in order to get enough work to make the money you want. This job is what it says it is, testing websites. Looking for errors, checking the functionality of the site, and whatever else the client requests.
The pay for these jobs is piece meal so it is hard to come up with an hourly value.
User Testing hires people to test different websites and pays $15 per 20 minutes. That’s pretty damn good for 20 minutes.
Testing Time hires people to share their opinions and it pays $50 per study. This works with a Skype account and the studies are a minimum of 90 minutes each.
There is a huge list of companies that pay for these services. Just search for website testing jobs. Again you could get work from many companies at once to make substantial steady income.
6. Editing/Proofreading Jobs
These jobs are for proofreading and editing documents for various clients.
Book in a Box or Scribe media hires proofreaders, editors, book jacket designers, and many other related jobs. They pay about $20 an hour.
American Journal Experts hires editors and translators, and pays around $20 per hour.
Cactus Communications hires editors and the pay ranges from $14-$19 per hour.
Another way to find other companies for this type of job, is to go to sites like ziprecruiter.com or proofreadingservices.com.
7. Online Chat Only Jobs
This one is a bit different. This is only online chatting with no phone use required. This is great for those people with a loud house during the day. I’m looking at all you parents out there. Some of these are pretty big name companies for this job.
Best Buy hires for tech support and requires experience with Microsoft and Apple products, as
The Chat Shop hires home chat staff for steady work. You will need to work 35-40 hours a week and the pay may vary depending on your experience.
Apple hires for iTunes chat advisors and this is a good gig where you are considered an employee with benefits and paid training. The pay varies based on your location and experience and should be between $10-$20 per hour. They will probably have a waiting list to apply, but it would be worth it if you got it.
You can search for other companies for chat from home jobs on sites like indeed.com.
8. Transcription Jobs
This job involves listening to audio files and then converting them to text. You must be a good typist and the audio could be recorded or live. Here are a few companies that hire for this type of job.
Rev is a company that lets you work as much as you want. You will have to qualify to work for them and the pay goes from $24-$48 an hour.
Time Etc hires people to work as a virtual assistant for transcription. The pay is around $16 an hour.
SpectraMedi that hires people for transcription and medical billing jobs. This job offers part time and full time work and does require certification. Due to the certification requirement you can expect to earn well above $20 per hour.
TranscribeMe hires people for audio transcription and does have a test you have to pass to get work from them. They pay around $20 an hour.
There are many more companies that hire for transcription work with good pay and many of them will provide steady work.
9. Writing Jobs
These jobs could be anything like resume writing, writing articles, technical writing, writing meta data, editing text, or tagging, etc. This category covers a broad range of work from home writing jobs.
Copy Press hires people for freelance writing. They only operate in a handful of countries including the U. S. and Canada. They pay twice per month and the pay varies.
Freelance Moms hires writers to write articles that are for mothers that work as freelancers. Writing about the types of work these moms do and give them advice or tips. The pay could be between $75-$100 per article once it is accepted by them.
Hire Writers hires people around the world and pays $20 per article after you get some experience with them.
Online Writing Jobs hires in the United States and pays $50 per article and pays weekly.
Crawford Media Services hires people as contractors for SE optimization, tagging, and metadata wiring. They can pay $18 an hour depending on the jobs.
Indeed.com is always a good place to search for this and any job.
There are a lot of companies out there that hire for online writing jobs. Writing about parenting, saving money, making money, or just about any subject people are interested in. There is something out there for everyone. It should not be that difficult to work for multiple companies at once to put together some pretty steady income.
10. Virtual Assistant Jobs
This seems self explanatory. You work as an assistant from home. The various positions could include clerical support, sales support, call center manager, administration, management, automation expert, or whatever other professional business services that are needed.
Virtual Office Temps hires a wide range of virtual assistants and offers many professional services for businesses. They pay between $10-$35 an hour. This rate will vary depending on the job or task.
Belay Solutions hires virtual assistants and pays them around $18 an hour.
Show Mojo is for the real estate industry. They hire people to help schedule the showing of properties. They pay around $20 per hour and hire for a few different positions.
Again there are many more companies that hire virtual assistants for all kinds of jobs in this field. There is definitely something out there for you.
A final note on the search for work from home jobs
So that’s the small list of jobs and companies that you can make good income from home with. There are so many companies hiring in these ten job categories that I know you can find something that will work for you.
A final tip for the job search is to use Flexjobs or any job search sites to look for jobs in any category you can think of to find work that provides good income from home. You will have to weed through a bunch of garbage jobs along the way, but there are enough good ones out there if you have the skills. Good luck.
