29 Side Hustles That Pay Weekly
A few years ago, the “Gig Economy” seemed to be the path to future financial success. The hours were flexible and the passive income had the potential to be better than a typical desk job. If you played your cards right, your side hustle could be your main hustle with ample time on the side that you could call yours.
29 Side Hustle Ideas That Pay You Per Week
Plenty of work-from-home jobs not only offer competitive salaries, but they pay weekly. Unlike side gigs that pay monthly, weekly pay can help you budget better for all kinds of planned and unplanned spending. If you’re looking to earn extra income these side hustles will help your bank account balance multiply, which can only give you more incentive to keep going.
1. Freelance Writer
Freelance writing is a big umbrella as it can include writing articles, starting a blog or creating website content for businesses and individuals. There are sites where you can pick and choose your next job such as Fiverr or Upwork. The pay is weekly or by job and you can set your own rates.
If you start with blog posts, once you grow your audience you can also take advantage of affiliate marketing. You can partner with brands or find clients that want you to post affiliate links to their products or services. If a link you post results in a click-through or purchase, you can earn commission.
2. Delivery Driver or Personal Shopper
Delivery service and personal shopping jobs provide flexible hours that you can fit into a busy life. Whether you work a full-time job, have kids involved in sports and activities or simply have a busy schedule, you can fit in jobs during your spare time and cash out either daily or weekly.
Shipt and Instacart offer opportunities to shop for people, deliver their items and get paid. Similarly, Uber Eats, Amazon Flex or DoorDash pay weekly or daily through PayPal or direct deposit.
3. Pet Sitter
Pet-sitting can be done in your own home or in your client’s house, giving you the flexibility to work pet-sitting gigs around a full-time job or other gigs. Sites like Rover.com pay weekly for recurring bookings, according to the website, which means you can line up some steady income.
You can also work for yourself as a pet sitter, or even dog walker, in which case you can make it your policy to get paid each time you finish a job. But you’ll be responsible for marketing to find gigs and managing jobs without the benefit of the Rover app.
You also won’t gain the benefit of up to $25,000 in vet care reimbursement should the animal become ill or injured while in your care, and personal property damage in case you accidentally damage the pet owner’s home.
4. Online Tutoring
If you are a teacher or have a teaching degree, you might consider online tutoring jobs to earn extra cash weekly. Even if you don’t have a degree but do have professional expertise or tutoring experience in a specific field, you may be qualified to teach as an online tutor.
As with pet-sitting, you can set up your own tutoring service and deliver online lessons or tutor in your home, but you’ll be responsible for marketing and management. The benefit is that you can get paid at the end of every session, which puts money in your pocket each time you work.
5. Handyman Services
If you have a knack for fixing things around the house or are a trained repair person, you could offer your handyman services. Small repairs or maintenance tasks can lead to quite a financial windfall as these skills are in high demand. You can also determine your schedule and pick and choose what jobs you want to take.
6. Graphic Designer
Graphic design can allow you to create logos, graphics, menus or other designs for clients. You can help build a brand from the ground up and use your editorial design skills to attract more customers for the companies that hire you. If you freelance graphic design you can work project to project and set your pay structure to be weekly.
7. Photographer
You can sell your photos as stock photos online or offer your photography services for events such as weddings, birthdays, engagement parties, graduation celebrations, headshots and more. If you find a regular base of clients, it is a great way to set up a steady stream of passive income for annual family photo shoots or holiday cards.
If you have a healthy stockpile of photos you’ve taken you can also sell your photos to websites like Shutterstock for a commission. This is a way to turn your creative hobby into a lucrative side hustle.
8. Babysitter
Take care of children in your neighborhood or through babysitting websites. You can increase your rate of pay the more children you watch so be sure to price your fee competitively with other babysitters or childcare services in your neighborhood to ensure you maximize your earning potential. Child care is quite expensive, so parents are always looking for a responsible adult that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.
9. House Cleaner
Providing cleaning services for homes or offices may not sound like a glamorous side hustle but it can be a lucrative one. By starting your own cleaning business you can pick up several houses per week and get paid on a weekly basis. Recurring gigs like this allow you to set up a budget for yourself and start stockpiling savings.
This gig is flexible and in demand. You won’t have much overhead to start as you can ask that your clients provide their own cleaning supplies.
10. Transcriptionist
Transcription jobs are where you convert audio or video recordings into text or electronic documents. All you need to turn this into a successful part-time job typing, proofreading and sometimes translation skills. Here are some areas always looking to hire transcriptionists.
Medical transcriptionist
Foreign language transcriber
Quality assurance transcription
Content editor
Dictation transcript editor
Insurance investigation transcript editor
Subtitler editor
Virtual medical scribes
Transcription specialist
Many transcription services, including Allegis, Rev and TranscribeMe, pay weekly via direct deposit, check or Paypal. Transcription gigs do require a fast internet connection and the ability to type quickly and accurately.
Allegis, which specializes in the insurance and legal industries, requires transcriptionists to have a foot pedal and headset, which is the equipment used by professional transcriptionists.
11. Consultant
Why actually do the work when you can get paid to help someone else learn how to do the work? As a consultant, you offer advice and expertise in your field of knowledge. There’s often an opening for consultation when someone is first opening a business and you are familiar with the products or services they want to sell. You can get paid in one lump sum or have it paid out per week throughout the duration of the job.
12. Event or Party Planner
Event planners or party planners help organize and execute gatherings such as weddings, birthdays, graduations or corporate events. You can freelance for schools, businesses or individuals. Here are some things you’d be responsible for:
Finding vendors.
Coordinating payments.
Setting up music with DJs or a live band.
Being onsite the day of the event to ensure things go as planned.
Assisting with cleanup.
13. Social Media Manager
Manage social media accounts for businesses, friends, family or other paying individuals.
There is money to be made on platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, X or Facebook and many people need help as they don’t know how to monetize the following they have. Here are some key takeaways:
As a social media manager, you would be in charge of expanding your client’s online presence and brand awareness.
If you have a strong knack for creating content you can help others increase sales or attract new customers through their accounts and get paid weekly.
Social media has many nuances such as affiliate marketing where you can help your clients make money, which makes you money in return.
14. Fitness Coach
If fitness is more than a hobby you could maximize the time you already spend in the gym. You could be a fitness coach and offer personal training or fitness coaching sessions. You could also teach fitness classes in person or online to take on more customers.
You can set up the schedule that best suits your needs and have a regular rotation of clients that pay you per week.
15. Online Surveys
Participate in online surveys get paid for your opinions and make some extra money in your spare time by filling out surveys online. There are also various online activities for you to complete besides surveys such as watching videos, filling out questionnaires or giving feedback directly to companies.
You can get paid in cash, gift cards or other rewards when you complete enough tasks per week. Here are some companies and platforms that will pay you to complete online surveys:
Branded Surveys
Swagbucks
16. Data Entry
Enter data into spreadsheets or databases for companies. You generally just copy information from one form to another. For instance, if you had a handwritten document that needed to be digitized or data points that needed to be entered into a spreadsheet this would be considered data entry and is in high demand for many companies who pay on a weekly basis.
17. Task Services
Run errands for people who are too busy to do them themselves. There are apps you can sign up for to help you get started such as TaskRabbit, Instacart and more. You can grocery shop for someone and deliver their food or even help someone move.
18. Translator
Language translation is needed in many fields. Translating documents or conversations for clients can lead to good money every week. Depending on training and the types of languages you can speak there is ample opportunity.
19. Advertise On Your Car
There’s always money in advertising. You may be driving around a blank canvas when you could be making some passive income. Multiple companies are willing to pay you for advertising space on your car. Once you do you can get the magnet or mesh, (neither of which causes damage to your car) to attach to your car and start driving around to make some extra cash every week.
20. Music Lessons
Playing anything from a guitar to a flute is a teachable skill you can monetize. Teaching music lessons for instruments is something you can do on a flexible schedule and set up your clients on the same recurring day every week. They pay you per class and if you have multiple students it could be a good amount of extra cash.
21. Virtual Event Hosting
The virtual world of money-making possibilities is vast and it is ever-growing. Host virtual events such as webinars or workshops. Companies or customers will pay you per week to help facilitate their virtual gatherings or use the ones you host yourself. This is especially helpful for businesses that operate remotely and want to host a corporate event or party.
22. Start an E-commerce Store
Sell products online through platforms like Etsy or eBay. This is great for repurposing vintage clothes or selling things you’ve made such as paintings, photos or knitted items. For example, if you choose Ety to sell on here are some things you should consider:
Selling your items costs a $0.20 listing fee
There is a 6.5% transaction fee and a 3% plus $0.25 payment processing fee.
It also allows you to reach buyers from a wide market.
You can grow your entrepreneurial skills at the same time you grow your small business.
23. Landscaping or Gardening
Landscaping and gardening are services homeowners seek out for every season. If you have a green thumb or just don’t mind a little yard work it can be a great gig. Depending on where you live this could be something you do weekly and you wouldn’t necessarily need to buy equipment as the homeowners would supply the tools you need for the job.
24. Personal Chef
Being a personal chef is a growing niche industry as many households are filled with people who work full time and want to come home to a nice meal. You can cook meals for individuals or families in their homes multiple times a week and they would pay for the supplies and your time.
25. Rent Out Your Space
Rent out a room in your home on Airbnb or other rental platforms. If you have an extra bedroom or even have converted your garage into a guest house, there is a great money-making opportunity at your fingertips. Not only does this make you more money each week but greatly offsets your monthly bills.
26. Handmade Crafts
Create and sell handmade crafts like jewelry, candles or pottery. You can set up your own website or use an existing e-commerce site such as Etsy or Amazon Handmade. Selling your handmade goods, especially if they’re unique and popular, could be a great way to create some income each week.
27. Car Washing or Detailing
Offer mobile car washing services to busy individuals on the go. You can set up a spot with virtually no overhead and make a killing in one weekend. You can charge additional fees for car detailing which is a bit more involved.
28. Virtual Tech Support or Remote Call Center Representative
Remote call center representatives are often sales jobs, where you cold-call people to schedule a sales call or raise funds for organizations. However, some call center jobs are customer service-focused. A quick Indeed search turns up dozens of part-time and full-time work-from-home call center positions that advertise weekly pay.
Most require a quiet environment where you can take calls without interruptions. However, providing technical support services remotely is an easy side hustle to operate.
29. Virtual Assistant
Provide administrative support to businesses remotely by becoming a virtual assistant or virtual administrative assistant. You would operate as high-level support for companies or business heads. This side hustle often pays weekly and is best for those with strong organizational skills for putting together schedules, interoffice communications, conference calls, phone calls or emails and planning meetings.
Final Take To GO
In today’s world, many people are looking for extra income beyond their regular jobs. Side hustles are a great way to earn some extra cash, and if you need money fast, finding ones that pay weekly can be a real lifesaver. Whether you’re saving up for a vacation, trying to pay off debt, or just want some extra spending money, there are no shortage of side hustle options.
Remember, the key is to find something that aligns with your skills, interests and availability. With dedication and hard work, you can turn your side hustle into a reliable source of extra cash. Start exploring these side hustles today and get paid weekly.
Dawn Allcot contributed to the reporting for this article.
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