May 2022 Side Hustle Report – $1,569.18

Hey everybody. Could is within the books, which suggests it’s time for one more Monetary Panther facet hustle report.

As a fast recap, every month, I doc precisely what I used to be capable of earn by facet hustling utilizing varied gig economic system apps. I take advantage of these gig economic system apps as a complement to my weblog earnings, with my foremost purpose to point out what you'll be able to earn facet hustling with these apps. In the event you’re in search of concepts on the best way to earn additional earnings, hopefully, these posts provide you with some good concepts.

In in the present day’s submit, we’ll be looking at my facet hustle/gig economic system earnings for Could 2022.

Facet Hustle Earnings for Could 2022

Complete Facet Hustle Earnings for Could 2022 = $1,569.18

Could was one other stable facet hustle month for me. Most of my earnings for the month got here from DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub.

Along with my common meals supply apps, I additionally earned some earnings from some fascinating new earnings sources – primarily from a brand new app I’ve been utilizing referred to as ProxyPics (I’ll go into extra element about ProxyPics later on this submit).

Right here’s a pie chart with my facet hustle/gig economic system earnings sources for the month.

may 2022 side hustle report

With that stated, let’s take a more in-depth take a look at my gig economic system earnings for the month.

Airbnb/Rental Earnings Earnings: $2,400

The rental property stays regular and I’ve been lucky to haven't any points with my tenants and only a few points with my home. The home money flows about $900 to $1,000 per 30 days and whenever you depend the fairness and tax benefits I’m getting, it’s doing even higher than that. The earnings can be pretty passive at this level. I nonetheless handle the home myself and deal with the yard work, however none of that takes me a lot time per week.

Rover Earnings: $249.15

Rover was a bit slower than what I anticipated, however I nonetheless had some stable earnings. For the month, I watched two canines and did some drop-in visits for a neighbor’s cat. Each canines have been pups that I’d watched earlier than, so it was low-stress earnings (virtually passive, even).

I’ve additionally been getting the occasional drop-in cat request, the place I'm going to inspect the cat and refill their meals and water. I've a neighbor down the road that discovered me on Rover, so I ended by her home over Memorial Day weekend to feed her cat.

If you wish to study extra about Rover, try my submit: Rover Pet Sitting – How To Make Cash Canine Sitting With Rover. In the event you’re involved in changing into a sitter, you'll be able to signal as much as be a Rover sitter utilizing my Rover referral hyperlink.

DoorDash/Uber Eats/Grubhub Earnings: $974.93

DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub did nicely for the month, though I got here up only a bit in need of my $1,000 per 30 days purpose. Right here’s a breakdown of my earnings with every supply app final month: $326.28 + $429.45 + $219.20 =

I do the majority of my deliveries throughout the lunch hour. Often, I’ll do some night deliveries, though I don’t work throughout the dinner rush as typically anymore as a result of I normally can’t begin till later within the night after I’ve put my son to mattress. I additionally attempt to do deliveries on my approach house from daycare. I’ll typically attempt to discover deliveries heading in direction of my home, and since I bike with my son, it’s fairly simple to do deliveries that approach.

In order for you extra details about the totally different meals supply apps I take advantage of, try the detailed posts I’ve written about every app:

To trace my earnings, I take advantage of Gridwise, which is an effective free app for monitoring your gig economic system earnings and mileage.

Wag Earnings: $11

I don’t do a number of Wag walks today, however in Could, I went again house to go to my dad and mom and noticed a Wag stroll for a canine just a few blocks from their home. It was a 20-minute stroll and the canine was well-behaved and simple to stroll, so it was an satisfying approach for me to earn some extra cash whereas touring.

In the event you’re involved in studying extra about Wag, try my submit: Wag App Overview – My Expertise As An On-Demand Canine Walker.

Trash/Flipping Earnings: $15.66

I haven’t been doing a lot on this class, however I did earn somewhat bit of cash promoting a gown shirt I discovered at Goodwill. The shirt was from a model referred to as UNTUCKit, which typically sells nicely on eBay. This sale didn’t work out that nicely – I solely made just a few {dollars} after bills. I’ll in all probability keep away from clothes sooner or later except it’s one thing I discover on the Goodwill Outlet, the place clothes is way cheaper in comparison with the standard Goodwill shops.

ProductTube Earnings: $100

ProductTube has been doing rather well currently. I’ll in all probability put collectively a extra detailed submit about ProductTube in some unspecified time in the future, however mainly, it’s an app that pays you to make market analysis movies about particular merchandise. The gigs take so little time to finish – I’m normally incomes $10 or extra to make a video that takes me 2-5 minutes to finish – so it’s nicely price my time. Many of the gigs are at massive field shops (i.e. Goal or Walmart) or comfort shops (CVS and Walgreens). I attempt to do these gigs within the morning after I drop my son off at daycare.

IVueIt/ProxyPics Earnings: $115

I used to place IVueIt with the Discipline Agent sort apps, however I’ve determined to interrupt out IVueIt (and ProxyPics) into their very own class. These apps are ones that typically pay you to take exterior photographs of a enterprise or residential property, so I feel they make extra sense as their very own class, quite than lumping them with the auditing apps like Discipline Agent or Merchandiser, which normally pay you to take photographs of merchandise on the retailer.

With that being stated, I made $35 final month from IVueIt and an astounding $80 from a brand new app I’ve been utilizing referred to as ProxyPics.

The IVueIt gigs have been the same old ones the place I take photographs of the landscaping round sure companies or the place I take inside photographs of a “darkish” retailer (i.e. a retailer that has completely closed).

ProxyPics in the meantime, is an app that pays you to take photographs of residential properties. Appraisers use ProxyPics to get up-to-date photographs of properties. The assignments pay nicely, so that they’re price doing. Certainly, final month I accomplished 4 assignments for ProxyPics, incomes $20 for each for a complete of $80. The assignments solely take a couple of minutes to finish – simply take just a few photographs and reply some questions within the app. That is an app I’ll positively be incorporating into my common gig economic system repertoire.

To study extra about IVueIt or ProxyPics, try the posts I wrote about them:

Google Opinion Rewards/Surveys On The Go/1Q Earnings/Fb Viewpoints: $13.52

Right here’s what I earned with every of the brief survey apps in Could:

Not a lot to report right here. Google Opinion Rewards and 1Q remained regular. Surveys On The Go requires me to hit $10 earlier than I can money out, so I didn’t hit that mark final month. Fb Viewpoints paid me $5 for finishing just a few fast surveys. I don’t get a number of Fb Viewpoints surveys, however after I do see them, they’re price doing.

Secret Procuring Earnings: $78 (plus free meals)

Secret buying was stable once more. I make all of my secret buying cash from Marketforce, to the purpose the place secret buying with Marketforce is a bonified facet hustle. I additionally had just a few different random secret outlets that received me free meals. These solely reimbursed me for my meal although, so I didn’t earn a revenue with these secret consumers.

Secret buying is a massively underrated solution to scale back your meals funds. I get a whole lot of {dollars} of free meals every month by making the most of Marketforce, Bestmark, A Nearer Look, and different secret buying web sites.

The world of secret buying is pretty sophisticated, so I like to recommend studying the in-depth posts I’ve written on this topic under:

ReceiptPal/Receipt Hog/Fetch/CoinOut/Amazon Shopper Panel Earnings: $11.50

Amazon Shopper Panel paid me $11.50 final month. $10 of that was from the ten receipts I despatched them after which I received $1.50 for answering just a few survey questions. Undoubtedly, Amazon Shopper Panel is the most effective receipt app, so that you positively wish to seize that app when you can. The opposite apps are good too, however they take for much longer to earn any cash on them.

Medium Earnings: $0.42

I don’t write something on Medium anymore since my time is healthier spent writing on this weblog, however I nonetheless get a few cents every month from the stuff I already wrote on there. If I have been beginning a weblog in the present day and simply wished to put in writing about something and never care about website positioning, then I’d in all probability go along with Medium. If you wish to make a go of writing on Medium and incomes an precise earnings, it's good to be ready to pump out content material – actually on daily basis.

That’s one factor I’ve discovered about doing something on-line – amount beats high quality as a result of amount results in high quality.

And that concludes the Could 2022 Facet Hustle Report!

Could was a stable facet hustle month. Incomes $1,500 from these random apps just isn't dangerous in any respect. After I put all my earnings sources collectively – the weblog, the facet hustle earnings, and the rental earnings, I’m doing fairly nicely. Not super-rich or something – however greater than sufficient to stay comfortably.

For extra concepts on how you should utilize the gig economic system to earn additional earnings, try my submit, The Final Checklist of Gig Financial system Apps. That submit can hopefully provide you with some extra concepts on issues you are able to do to earn additional earnings.

Hope you loved seeing what I did final month. Be happy to drop any questions and feedback under.

Extra Really useful Ebike/Scooters

Try these different ebikes/scooters I've had the possibility to do a overview for:

GEN3 Outcross Bike – The GEN3 Outcross is a stable, reasonably priced fats tire ebike that does job of doing what I would like it to do. It really works nice for metropolis using, giving me a clean experience in all circumstances. It’s works rather well as a winter ebike for the reason that fats tires give it good traction over snow and ice. Try my GEN3 Outcross Overview.

Himiway Escape Bike – The Himiway Escape is an fascinating bike for anybody in search of a moped-style ebike. In the event you’re a gig economic system employee, the Himiway Escape is especially fascinating and it’s attainable to think about it as an funding, particularly when you can decide to do deliveries with the Himiway versus utilizing a automobile. It’s not low cost, however you'll be able to positively make your a reimbursement whenever you examine the mileage you’ll put in your automobile versus utilizing an ebike. Try my Himiway Escape Bike Overview.

Espin Sport Bike – The Espin Sport is an effective ebike for somebody who's in search of an ebike that feels and rides extra like an everyday bike. There are a lot of ebikes which might be actually solely bikes in identify. In actuality, they’re mainly electrical mopeds. The Espin Sport, against this, is a motorcycle you would in all probability experience with out the battery and also you’d really feel such as you’re simply using an everyday bike. Try my Espin Sport Overview.

Varla Eagle One Scooter – The Varla Eagle One is a superb scooter that may make sense for lots of people. It might work as a major mode of transportation. You need to use it to work on gig economic system apps like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub. And it can be a leisure automobile when you’d want to make use of it for that. Try my Varla Eagle One Overview.

Fucare H3 Scooter – The Fucare H3 is a enjoyable scooter and I’ve loved testing it out. For a each day commuter or fast journeys or errands, the Fucare H3 might be the scooter I’ll use. It’s moveable and simple to maneuver, so it’s simply simpler to tackle the highway after I want it. Try my Fucare H3 Scooter Overview.

Extra Really useful Investing App Bonuses

For further investing app bonuses, you should definitely try those under:

M1 Finance ($50) – It is a nice robo-advisor that has no charges and lets you create a custom-made portfolio primarily based in your danger tolerance. You additionally get $50 for opening an account. Try my M1 Finance Referral Bonus – Step-By-Step Information.

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Moomoo (5 free shares) – Moomoo is a free investing app at present providing 5 free shares (normally price round $75-$100) when you open an account utilizing a referral hyperlink and deposit $2,000. Learn my Moomoo referral bonus information for extra info.

Webull (5 free shares) – Webull additionally provides you 5 free inventory valued between $3-$3,000 every when you open an account utilizing my referral hyperlink. Right here’s a information I wrote about the best way to earn your free shares utilizing Webull.

Robinhood (1 free inventory) – Robinhood provides you a free inventory valued between $2.50-$225 when you open an account utilizing my referral hyperlink.

Public (1 free inventory) – Public provides you a free inventory valued between $3-$70 when you open an account utilizing my referral hyperlink.

Extra Really useful Financial institution Account Bonuses

In the event you’re in search of extra simple financial institution bonuses, try the under choices. These bonuses are all simple to earn and haven't any charges or minimal steadiness necessities to fret about.

Chime ($100) – Chime is a free checking account that provides a referral bonus when you use a referral hyperlink and full a direct deposit of $200 or extra. In observe, any ACH switch into this account triggers the bonus. This bonus is simple to earn and posts immediately, so that you’ll know when you met the necessities as quickly as you progress cash into the account. I wrote a step-by-step information on the best way to earn your Chime referral bonus that I like to recommend you try.

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Brex ($250) – Brex is a free enterprise money administration account that's providing new customers a $250 Amazon present card when you join utilizing a referral hyperlink and meet sure necessities. It’s a straightforward bonus to earn and nicely price doing. Right here is my Brex Card Referral Bonus Step By Step Information.

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Kevin is an lawyer and the blogger behind Monetary Panther, a weblog about private finance, journey hacking, and facet hustling utilizing the gig economic system. He paid off $87,000 price of scholar loans in simply 2.5 years by selecting to not stay like an enormous shot lawyer.

Kevin is captivated with incomes cash utilizing the gig economic system and you'll see all of the methods he makes additional earnings each month in his facet hustle experiences.

Kevin can be massive on utilizing the newest fintech apps to enhance his funds. A few of Kevin's favourite fintech apps embody:

Private Capital. One among finest free apps you should utilize to observe your portfolio and monitor your web price. This is without doubt one of the apps I take advantage of to trace my monetary accounts.
SoFi Cash. A very good checking account with completely no charges. You may get a $25 referral bonus when you open a SoFi Cash account with a referral hyperlink.
Brex. Brex is a free enterprise money administration account that's at present providing new customers a $250 Amazon present card when you join utilizing a referral hyperlink and meet sure necessities.
M1 Finance. It is a nice robo-advisor that has no charges and lets you create a custom-made portfolio primarily based in your danger tolerance. You additionally get $50 for opening an account.
Albert. An important free app I take advantage of to trace my funds and save more cash. You can too earn a $150 signup bonus when you open a free Albert money account.

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