Is this article accurate that only 73 data professionals earn more than USD 1000 a month out of 2 million freelancers on Upwork? Why are the prospects of earning a decent income as a freelancing data professional so low?

Non-native English speaker here.

I live in Bangladesh and I was looking to do some freelancing in the field of Data. Now, I came across this website where the author said that he analyzed 2 million profiles on Upwork to find freelancers who made more than USD 1000 a month in the last six months. He used the metric, USD 60/hr rate and at least 100 billable hours in the last 6 months. The result was that out of this …

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