Is $5–7/hr remote work doable for a student in US?

I’ve done $6/hr jobs (data entry, annotation). They’re real, but boring + repetitive. Upside = no stress, downside = no growth.

if your main goal is flexible remote work while finishing school, it’s a fair expectation.

👀 not to be that person, but $600/mo for 30 hrs is basically $5/hr. You could probably make more doing DoorDash/UberEats on 10 hrs a week.

Tbh, you could try virtual assistant agencies. Some pay $5–8/hr starting out. As you build skills, you can jump to $10–15/hr.

if you’re in the US, minimum wage laws technically mean you shouldn’t have to settle for less than ~$7.25/hr (and in many states it’s higher). but on international platforms, they’ll happily pay you that.

$5–7/hr is kinda standard for a lot of global freelancing sites. For US-based though… pretty low. Some companies might even question why you’re “cheap.”

yeah it’s doable, but brace yourself. most legit remote jobs in that range will be customer support/chat moderation/data entry type gigs. nothing glamorous.