Did you know that you’re sitting on skills that could bring in over $100 a day?
According to NetCredit’s 2025 side hustle earnings data, there are specific remote side hustles and related skills that can make between $100 and $150 for a day’s worth of work.
The irony is, you’ve been using them all this time, but renting them out to companies and businesses that don’t deserve them.
You’ve been selling your skills to toxic work environments, jobs that trample on your mental health, and employers who don’t see the value in your ideas and contributions and would rather lay you off or refuse to pay you what you’re worth.
Now, the tables are flipped. It’s time to get paid what your skills are worth:
- An estimated 48% of CEOs plan to ramp up freelance hiring this year, according to Upwork.
- Freelancers and professionals with side hustles report greater levels of job satisfaction, higher income, and career stability.
- The remote side hustles in this article are not gig apps, surveys, or low-wage tasks; they’re in high demand and are high-income skills.
What Remote Side Hustles Pay $100/Day?
Digital-first and AI-related skills are in strong demand right now, according to NetCredit’s report. Here’s how to leverage each one to launch a high-paying side hustle, plus how to make even more money from them:
1. Marketing Strategy
- Average daily rate: $150/day
- Some things you’d do: Develop marketing campaigns, undertake competitor analysis, build brand identity and brand strategy, etc.
- Tools you might use: SEMrush, Google Analytics, Google Trends, ChatGPT, Perplexity.ai
- Passive income idea: Record a marketing strategy mini-course and sell it online
2. Website Design
- Average daily rate: $130/day
- Some things you’d do: Design webpages, optimize entire websites pages for SEO, AI search-friendliness, and UX (user experience), etc.
- Tools you might use: WordPress, Canva, Figma
- Passive income idea: Sell web templates, fonts, graphics, etc. on online marketplaces
3. Landing Page Design
- Average daily rate: $125/day
- Some things you’d do: Design captivating landing pages/sales pages for small businesses, create copy, conduct A/B testing, etc.
- Tools you might use: Hotjar, Unbounce, Leadpages, Google Analytics
- Passive income idea: Sell a short course teaching beginners how to to build high-conversion landing pages
4. Video Creation
- Average daily rate: $120/day
- Some things you’d do: Edit video sound, angles, effects, etc., and create polished clips for different media formats like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or even educational video content for a course series
- Tools you might use: CapCut, DaVinci Resolve, Movavi, Canva
- Passive income idea: Subscription/retainer package model of a certain number of videos created/edited each month
5. Website Content Writing
- Average daily rate: $107.50/day
- Some things you’d do: Write copy for niche businesses for their web pages, product pages, service descriptions, etc. You could also be a freelance writer (blogger/newsletter creator/thought leader), contributor, or journalist.
- Tools you might use: Grammarly, ChatGPT, Jasper, Surfer AI
- Passive income idea: Creating sponsored content and or writing content that contains affiliate links
What’s next?
Pick one skill/side hustle idea from this article. Begin building your portfolio of mock projects or samples that you can use as proof of your expertise. And start pitching to clients this week.
You’ve got what it takes to make $100 or more every day…without the approval of your boss.