70 Best Ways to Make Extra Money on the Side in 2023: $500+

If you choose any of these driving-related side hustles, it might make sense to tack on an app like Hurdlr to automatically track your mileage, expenses, income streams, and tax deductions in real-time. On average, Hurdlr helps users find $5600 in deductions!

32. Drop Shipping

With drop shipping, you can sell physical products online without having to buy any inventory upfront. Instead, you work out deals with the manufacturers or distributors to ship the items directly to customers on your behalf.

On a popular episode of The Side Hustle Show, Ben Knegendorf shared his method of “high ticket dropshipping” that allowed him to quit his job as a forklift driver.

33. Loan Signing Agent: $100 per Appointment

Notary publics can make up to $100 an hour for completing loan signings for new home buyers on their own schedule.

Check out the resources at Loan Signing System to learn more.

34. Print on Demand Products

Merch by Amazon is a fun way to make extra money. Upload your t-shirt (and other product) designs, set your price, and then let Amazon do all the work of printing and shipping your orders.

Elaine Heney made over $50,000 doing this part-time and shared some of her tips on The Side Hustle Show. (My wife made over $2k in her first year doing this in her spare time too!)

35. Create a Local Experience

If you have a passion for your city and love meeting new people, a unique local tour could be a hit.

My friend Alex hosts hundreds of “urban hiking” tours a year on the side from her day job — at $49 apiece!

What unique experience can you offer travelers? It doesn’t even have to be a tour.

For example, Michele Mattix makes money hosting guided meditations through Airbnb Experiences. You can create your own experience, set your price, and Airbnb markets it to travelers.

36. Create a Fiverr Gig

For me, Fiverr has been a fun and eye-opening side hustle experiment. Since I started on the site, I’ve earned over $13,000, met some awesome people, and found an interesting “Buy Buttons” platform.

How it works is you come up with a base “gig” — and then add relevant upsells or packages to increase your order value. One of my most popular podcast episodes was with a Fiverr seller who used the platform to launch a 6-figure freelancing business.

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37. Start a YouTube Channel

Creating content on YouTube is a fast-track side hustle, especially compared with blogging. It’s easier to “rank” videos for your target keywords, and once your channel reaches certain metrics, you can monetize with ads.

(You can also use YouTube in other creative ways, like to sell a digital product or service.)

38. Build an Email Newsletter

The newsletter business model is low overhead, simple to manage, and can scale to a significant income stream.

For example, the popular daily business newsletter Morning Brew sold for a reported $75 million!

39. TaskRabbit Gigs

TaskRabbit is one of the largest gig economy platforms. You can create a profile specializing in running local errands, assembling furniture, local temp help, and even virtual support jobs.

Rates vary widely based on what service you’re providing, but I’ve seen tasks anywhere from $15 an hour all the way up to $100+ for specialized skills.

40. Go Look at Stuff

Earn $18 to $200 to go look at stuff like eBay purchases, cars, rental properties, or even vacant lots with WeGoLook. Take pictures, verify information, and report back what you find.

41. Rent Out Your Car, RV, or Boat

If you have an underutilized car, Turo will help you rent it out.

Listing your car is free, and Turo owners report earning an average of $875 a month. The company does background checks on all their renters and also handles the insurance.

What else could you rent out?

42. Donate Plasma

As long as needles don’t bother you, you can earn $20-60 per plasma donation.

43. Clinical Trials

The National Library of Medicine runs a nationwide database of studies you may qualify for.

Alternatively, you can punch your zip code into this search engine to find paid clinical trials near you:

44. Earn $200 From a Bank

You’ve got to promise to use this strategy responsibly, but it’s earned my wife and I thousands of dollars.

Related: Credit Card Rewards 101: How to Earn Free Cash and Travel by Spending Smarter

45. Sell Dirt

Mark “The Land Geek” Podolsky calls this “the best passive income model,” and broke down how it works on The Side Hustle Show. Later, I caught up with a student of his who was earning $10k a month.

Mark’s Land Investing Launch Kit is free for Side Hustle Nation readers.

46. Sell Your Mobile Data: $20-60 Per Year

We give so much of our data away every day for free to companies like Facebook, but did you know you can actually get paid for your data?

For example, Nielsen rewards you for sharing internet usage behaviors. Simply download the non-intrusive app to your devices.

As they track your usage, you earn points to redeem for prizes and sweepstakes entries.

Mobilexpression is a market research panel that pays you for data from your mobile phone.

Download their app and allow it to work in the background recording your browsing habits while on your phone. In exchange, you’ll earn gift cards to popular retailers.

Realistically, this is probably worth around $20 a year in passive income. And you’ll earn a free $5 gift card after your first week.

Caden is one of my newest finds, and is earning me over $10 a month on autopilot

The app itself is a little slow and buggy, but may be worth those small headaches for some relatively easy passive income.

At press time, it was iOS only. Check out our full Caden app review to learn more.

47. Craigslist Gigs

There’s a section in the lower right side of Craigslist where companies and individuals post jobs and gigs.

48. Transcribe Audio

Transcribe interviews and lectures on Rev.com and earn $9 an hour and up. Fast freelance transcriptionists can earn more though; as this free mini-course explains.

49. Narrate Audiobooks

I think we can all agree that getting paid to talk is a pretty sweet gig, and Voices.com is the #1 marketplace for voice over talent.

Otherwise, ACX, the Audiobook Creation Exchange, is an interesting platform to connect authors with professional narrators to — like the name suggests — create an audiobook version of their book.

50. Help Companies Name Their Products

Companies post naming and branding contests on SquadHelp and you can win cash for coming up with the best name or slogan. On Namestation, a similar service, top contributors earn up to $300 a month part-time.

51. Cut Your Ongoing Expenses

If it’s been more than 2 years since you last shopped for car insurance, you’re paying too much.

Here’s the dirty secret of the car insurance industry: your cars are worth less every year due to depreciation, but you keep paying the same amount.

Check out Insurify for a quick and painless quote process to find the best rates for car and home insurance. It’ll take just a few minutes (you can even do it on your phone) and users save an average of $489 per year! 

Similarly, I recently switched to Mint Mobile for my cell phone service. It runs on the T-Mobile network and costs just $15 a month (when you pre-pay)!

I was able to keep my current phone and phone number. Making the switch from Verizon saved my wife and I over $800 a year.

52. Build an Online Course

With Udemy, you can create a video course in your area of expertise, and put it up for sale on their platform of more than 50 million students.

Since late 2014, I’ve earned over $20,000 on Udemy from a course I created about self-publishing.

What could you teach?

Related: The 101 Best Udemy Courses for Entrepreneurs, Freelancers, and Side Hustlers

53. Thrift for Profit

Apps like Poshmark can help you clear out your closet or make money from your latest thrift store finds.

54. Online Coaching

The Coach.me platform allows you to set up an online coaching practice in the areas of leadership, health, business, habits, and more. The site boasts more than 1 million users and you can earn $100 an hour or more working one-on-one with clients.

55. Yard Care Service

Both GreenPal and LawnGuru are building “the Uber for yardwork” and offer a cool new way for landscaping businesses to connect with customers.

The average GreenPal vendor makes around $55 per hour mowing lawns on its system.

56. Get Cooking

The United States Professional Chef Association put together this directory of personal chefs available for hire.

57. Photography Service

This is my wife’s side hustle of choice, which started as a hobby. She and her partner started out pricing low to build a portfolio, but now command around $4,000 per wedding.

58. Moving Service

If you have a truck or van — and a strong back — you can earn money with Dolly’s peer-to-peer moving platform. Help your neighbors pack and move across town. Similarly, GoShare will help you put your truck or cargo van to work and up to $61 an hour.

59. Sports Coaching

Channel your athletic glory days and help young athletes level up their game. You can set your own rate and CoachUp private coaches report earning an average of $45 an hour.

60. Personal Training

Connect with clients through your gym, NextDoor, or through a marketplace like FindYourTrainer.

61. One-on-One Language Lessons

With Verbling, you can set your own hourly rate for online language lessons. Most tutors appear to be in the $10-25 an hour range, and Verbling says some are earning a full-time living on the platform.

62. Storage Unit Auctions

The hype over Storage Wars has largely died down, which means profitable storage unit auctions may be easier to win today. You have to bid based on what you can see from the outside, and hope to find some treasures to flip for a profit.

63. Help Friends Get a Job

When your referral gets a new job through Hired.com, the site will pay you $1000.

And that sum pales in comparison to what you can make starting your own recruiting business. A typical placement fee is 20% of your candidate’s first year salary — meaning a single recruit could earn you $10-20k or more!

64. Mechanical Turk

Earn a small fee ($0.01 to $3) for each micro task you complete on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

It can be tedious work, but over the last few years, Mike Naab earned over $50,000 in his spare time completing surveys and other small jobs.

65. Earn More Interest

I’ve been earning 4.75% interest with my Betterment Cash Reserve account. Of course, rates are subject to change but this is a whole lot better than the pennies a year we earn on our checking account balance.

66. Proofreading and Editing

Editing for self-published authors was a side hustle for me a few years ago. ProofreadingServices.com is an online proofreading and tutoring service that pays $19 to 46 per hour.

To learn the necessary skills, Proofreading Academy may be worth a look. The online course offers a free trial and guaranteed work upon successful completion.

You’ve heard of people renting their spare rooms on Airbnb, but what if you don’t want strangers in your house?

The Neighbor self-storage platform connects people with storage needs with those who have extra space. If you’ve got some excess storage capacity in your garage, driveway, or elsewhere, list your space here to fill it and get paid.

Top hosts are earning up to $10,000 a year running their own mini self-storage operations. Here’s our full Neighbor review for more on how it works and how to get started.

68. Solve Interesting Problems

MindSumo is a cool service that asks for your input on certain questions on behalf of its corporate clients. The best and most creative answers earn rewards of $550-1600.

When I was browsing, I saw questions like “How would you improve the car buying experience?” and “How can we make laundry less of a hassle?”

Definitely an interesting way to get paid for your opinions and ideas.

Are there movie extra jobs near you? Background actors normally earn minimum wage, but you may get a meal out of the deal — and perhaps a brush with celebrity.

70. A Friend in Need

According to Rent a Friend, you can earn up to $50 an hour on this strictly platonic match-making site. You might get hired to accompany new “friends” to the movies, dinner, the gym, or whatever you include in your free profile.

71. Flexible Part-Time Work: Up to $25/hr

Steady is a cool app and website that consolidates all sorts of “gig economy” opportunities. For example, you can find work from home gigs, flexible “anytime” options, and even regular full- and part-time jobs.

Browsing through the listings, I found the usual array of delivery and rideshare gigs, but was pleasantly surprised by some of the other offerings. There were a number of local opportunities I’d never heard of in:

Steady acts as a portal to all these gigs and gives you a convenient central location to browse. After you create your account, you’ll be able to see everything available online and in your local area.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How can I make extra money?

There have never been more ways to make extra money! For example, you can start freelancing, begin re-selling products, or even start your own blog or YouTube channel. Be sure to check the full list at Side Hustle Nation for the latest options.

How can I make money online?

The most common ways to money online are freelancing, selling advertising on content you create, or by selling physical or digital products. You can sell these through existing marketplaces like Amazon or set up your own store.

How can I make $200 fast?

If you need to make $200 fast, you have a couple options. The first is to provide some sort of freelance service, which could be anything from mowing lawns to babysitting to painting houses to dog walking to designing websites or managing Facebook ads. The second option is to sell something you already own. OfferUp and Facebook Marketplace are popular options to unload this unwanted inventory.