49 Best Side Hustle Ideas to Make $5,000+ Per Month

Income Potential: A few hundred to over Tens-of-Thousands every month

Podcasting is a great way to simply talk about a topic (or topics) that you find interesting, reach a target audience, and make money. You can talk about a topic, give some insight, or even interview people to share their thoughts.

And if you are able to garner a huge following for your podcast, you can bag some pretty big sponsor deals.

How to start a podcast?

As a beginner, I am sure you won’t be able to spend thousands of dollars on expensive podcasting courses, so I would suggest you go to Youtube and learn as much as you can for free.

YouTube has tons of useful information from people coming from all walks of life. And thus you can start your podcast with much less upfront investment.

And as you’ll grow your audience (and income ) you can choose to invest in bettering your content over time.

35. Rent-a-friend

Income Potential: $30 to $50/hr

RentaFriend.com, as the name suggests allows people to rent people as their friends for set hours, and mind you, this service is strictly platonic and paid companionship.

This might seem a bit strange but this is an actual side hustle for many and $20-50 an hour.

36. Snuggling services

Income Potential: $40 to $80/hr

Yes, this is a real thing, and it has a number of health benefits. So, naturally, there’s also a business angle to it.

For Sam Varnerin of Boston, her snuggling side hustle has turned into a pretty lucrative business. She told Student Loan Hero, “I work around 18 hours a week, charging between $80 and $100 an hour, and make between $3-4k a month.”

Sam started part-time through the SnuggleBuddies.com agency, which allowed her to earn $40 an hour on her own schedule, before striking out on her own.

37. Social Media Manager

Income Potential: $44,000 yearly

Businesses and organizations are in constant need of new customers, you being their social media manager will help those businesses drive new customers by providing useful, relevant social media posts.

Moreover, having active social media accounts from businesses also helps them retain their existing customers because people spend much of their time on social nowadays.

So naturally, any business will try to have an active and relevant account that will bring them, new customers.

While every single business wants to have that, not a lot of them know how to do so. And this is where you help these businesses by offering your social media services.

Some of these services may include:

• Creating relevant content
• Answering comments and messages
• Helping answer questions
• Attract more customers to the business

38. Teach a Class on Skillshare

Income Potential: $200 to $5000/hr

Skillshare, as the name suggests, is a platform where people who have good experience or expertise in a certain area can create courses and make money from them.

Skillshare is a little different from Teachable because there isn’t any paid user base already on the platform who are constantly looking for great classes on Teachable.

On the other hand, Skillshare has over 3.5 million users that making them around $14.4 million in 2018.

I too have a paid Skillshare account where I follow and learn from a lot of classes on topics ranging from productivity, photography, starting a youtube channel, etc.

Have a look a Skillshare and consider reflecting on what new advice and ideas you can bring to the table.

39. Real Estate

Income Potential: Undefined

A real estate agent is one of those high-profile professions that require a lot more money and experience to get on the playing field.

Sure, the real estate business has the potential to make you millions a month but it takes a lot of investment to even get started.

And because of the market for apps and websites for every single service, buying and owning rental properties can also be done by platforms such as Roofstock, you don’t always have to drive and talk to the real estate agent to get a hold of a property.

40. Take surveys online (Market Research)