@maverick1 wrote:

By the Numbers

Business experts warn that many popular side hustles may be overhyped compared to what they actually pay. With that in mind, a new analysis has discovered the ten most Googled ‘side hustles’ in 2025, and how much they actually paid on average last year:
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$37,137 Mystery shopper

Source: Falcon Digital Marketing

@guysmom wrote:

@maverick1 wrote:

By the Numbers

Business experts warn that many popular side hustles may be overhyped compared to what they actually pay. With that in mind, a new analysis has discovered the ten most Googled ‘side hustles’ in 2025, and how much they actually paid on average last year:
........
$37,137 Mystery shopper

Source: Falcon Digital Marketing

^^^^^^they must've obtained the Mystery Shopper quote from KaylaLaughsOutLoud, lol!! ^^^^^^

@BarefootBliss wrote:

I wonder how Falcon Digital collects their data lol.

@Momomomo wrote:

I question how accurate the average pay is for most of these side hustles. How did they compute the average for a YouTuber? Is it just the pay from Alphabet or does it also factor in sponsorships and other money they get outside the YouTube platform? Does the average include the top 1-2% that could really skew the average higher? Some in this class make millions a month. I saw a Youtuber say in a recent video they used to make $1500 per month and it has dwindled to a couple of hundred a month. All on a part time basis. There are many that make less than that.

I would tend to believe the driver categories since there are probably very few people earning over 2 or 300,000 that would skew the numbers. There are youtubers that show how much they earn as a dasher to leverage their driving earnings. So how does that factor into their findings? Did the article state the number of hours worked by the average person per category?