The 20 Highest-Paying Jobs You Can Do From Home

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By Drake Baer and Jacquelyn Smith

Thanks to technology, our overwhelming desire for better work-life balance, or a need for extra cash, freelancing is becoming the new norm in America.

As of 2014, more than 53 million Americans were doing freelance work, according to a survey conducted by the independent research firm Edelman Berland and commissioned by Freelancers Union and Elance-oDesk, which recently relaunched with the name Upwork.

That's about 34% of the entire workforce.

"We've entered into a new chapter of work, in which technology has made it much easier for people to find work faster and reach beyond Industrial Era boundaries in order to create a more flexible work-life balance," says Upwork CEO Stephane Kasriel.