35 side hustle jobs that fit around your full-time gig

Everyone wants more money — but no one wants more burnout. That’s why side hustles have become the go-to solution for millions. In fact, 54% of people in the U.S. picked up at least one extra gig last year.

But side hustles don’t have to drain your energy or steal your sleep. Today, there are more ways than ever to make extra cash without clocking extra hours.

The best side hustles tap into your existing skills or hobbies, need minimal upkeep, and can even earn you passive income — so you can keep your day job and still bring in more money.

Below, we’ll walk you through smart, low-effort ways to boost your income without burning out.

35 side hustle jobs that you can do alongside your day job

If you aren't ready to give up your day job there are plenty of side hustle options for you. We will take a look at everything from low-effort tasks to high-earning side business ideas.

Knowledge-based side hustles

1. Teach a language

20% of Americans are now able to speak 2 or more languages, according to the United States Census Bureau. So, if you can speak an extra language or two, make money online by tutoring others.

List your language tutor services on a website like Preply, Italki, or Verbling. Some websites require teaching experience, so find the one that fits your qualifications.

If you'd rather create a course to serve as passive income, that's an option, too. You can publish your course on Whop, and even produce supplemental materials like quizzes or bonus lessons for an additional fee.

Time it takes: Flexible schedule
How much you can earn: $10-$40 per hour

2. Offer crypto advice

All those leveraged trades, shorts, and altcoins you're already keeping tabs on—why not tell others about them and make some extra cash? Crypto advice is incredibly sought after, and so it makes for a good side hustle.

There's plenty you can do in this field. With Whop, you can set up subscription tiers, letting users pay more or less based on what they get—such as ebooks and newsletter access.

You can also grow a private community with other experts and trade predictions.

Time it takes: Depending on what path you want to follow (creating communities, courses, etc.), you should at least invest 10 to 15 hours per week
How much you can earn: $10-$500+ per membership sold for communities and $50-$2,000+ per course sale

3. Trade stocks (or teach others how)

If you have the right kind of knowledge, stock trading can be really profitable. By studying the market trends, you can utilize day trading for an immediate profit, or swing trading if you want to invest more time.

Just remember that stock trading comes with some dangers, too. This is a high risk high reward type of side hustle, so make sure you're alright taking a hit if you make a wrong call. Never buy more stock than you're alright losing.

Time it takes: 2-10 hours per week
How much you can earn: $20-$100 per hour, depending on the experience

4. Offer nutrition advice

If you have the education and certifications to provide nutritional advice to people, offering diet plans can be a great side hustle.

Nutrition plans are a fantastic example of a flexible and popular digital product. You can create specialized meal plans based on fitness and weight goals, dietary restrictions, or just preferences, and sell them as downloadables or ebooks.

You can also adopt a community-based approach, such as by setting up a Discord server or a forum and getting paid for it. You can do both through Whop.

Time it takes: Flexible schedule, 5-10 hours per week
How much you can earn: $30-$70 per hour

The sports betting industry is growing by leaps and bounds—it was valued at $203 billion in 2020 and is set to rise up to $280 billion by 2028.

If you're someone with a strong understanding of sports and the betting market, you can make a lot of money providing sports picks.

Whop is the perfect platform to help you build this side hustle. With Whop, you can build up a whole sports betting empire even if you're short on time.

You can set up a paid whop community, run a newsletter, offer one-on-one consultations, and run a forum for enthusiasts like you, then charge a nifty subscription (or a one-time fee) for your help.

Time it takes: Around 20 hours per week
How much you can earn: $20-$50+ per hour

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6. Get ordained

Here's a side hustle that's off the beaten path: get ordained! In most states, getting ordained is as simple as filling out and submitting an application online. Once you're ordained, you're legally able to perform wedding ceremonies.

You can be ordained through organizations like the Universal Life Church or American Marriage Ministries. The cost to obtain copies of your ordination certifications and other materials is usually under $100, and an ordained officiant can charge up to $500 per ceremony.

This makes for a very tidy profit, and you may just get some free wedding food for your trouble, too. Although technically you can't marry people from your home, you will mostly work at home to reach and connect with clients, then leave the house for just a couple of hours to oversee the 'I Dos'.

Time it takes: Around 5 hours per event
How much you can earn: $100-$1,000 per ceremony

7. Become a coach

If you're the type of person who finds it easy to encourage other people, consider coaching as a side hustle. Pick a niche that suits your specialty, like life coaching, financial coaching, career coaching, or health and wellness coaching.

There are a lot of good coaching platforms, but Whop has all the features you need as a coach, like chat channels, video calling capabilities, private DMs, file sharing, and even built-in online courses.

Time it takes: 30-40 hours per week
How much you can earn: $20-$40+ per hour

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8. Work as a private tutor

As a private tutor, you can work online or invite students to your home so that you can help them out, be it with specific subjects or with test prep. Some of the most popular tests that students need tutoring for include the SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, and high school standardized tests.

You can advertise your services locally through schools or universities and do in-person tutoring, or you can tutor students through Zoom or a platform like Tutor.com, or you can even use Whop.

With its video call capabilities, online courses, downloadable PDFs, and private chats, you can create your very own whop to run your online tutoring business.

Time it takes: 25-30 hours per week
How much you can earn: $20-$80 per hour

9. Host a webinar

Webinars are a good one-and-done type of side hustle. You can either script out and pre-record a lecture on a topic you have expertise in and charge people an access fee, or host a live webinar and sell tickets to let viewers tune in.

With either option, you can build up a backlog of webinars that people can still access after the fact.

Time it takes: 15-25 hours per week
How much you can earn: $25-$500+ per ticket sold

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Content creation and digital products

10. Start a podcast

A podcast is a way to turn any special interest into a side hustle. Popular podcasts can make you money through ad revenue and sponsorship deals.

If you have a niche podcast topic that doesn't attract as many advertisers, you can sell merch or create a subscription through Whop so that listeners can contribute directly.

Time it takes: 20-30 hours per week
How much you can earn: $50-$1,000 per month

11. Write an ebook

If you have knowledge to share or a creative idea to talk about, you can make great passive income by selling ebooks. This goes for fiction, non-fiction, guidebooks… anything that you can imagine there is a market for.

Once an ebook is written, it can make you money almost indefinitely. You can sell your ebooks through Whop at a one-time fee or as part of a subscription service.

Time it takes: 10-40+ hours per ebook
How much you can earn: $10-$150+ per ebook sold

12. Make money as a streamer

Streaming is a great side hustle for anyone who's good at gaming or has a personality that appeals to people. Recent reports say that a Twitch streamer in 2023, with an average of just 10 viewers, can make up to $200 per month, but if you've got 100 viewers on average, that number goes up to $1,000.

With enough dedication, who knows? Maybe you'll be the next Ninja, who made over $500,000 a month at his peak on the platform.

Twitch allows viewers to subscribe to you and to donate directly using a tip-like system. With enough of an audience, you can also work with brands and make money promoting games and products, or sell access to a private community to watch you stream.

But it's not just Twitch — you can also livestream on TikTok and even Whop.

Time it takes: 30-40+ hours per week
How much you can earn: $200-$5,000+ per month

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13. UGC (user-generated content) creation

As of 2025, the UGC market is worth over $7.6 billion and is expected to surpass $27 billion by 2029. There's a huge demand for UGC, and this is the right time to jump on the train.

UGC, at its core, is content that natural users create - not influencers, not celebrities. When brands and businesses want to promote their products or services, some hire influencers, others hire people like you.

Here's the cool part — a 2024 study found that 91% of people are more likely to buy something if they see real user photos and videos.

As a UGC creator, you create content like reviews and unboxings, featuring the service or the product of the brand you're working with. So to become a UGC creator, all you need is the skills to create content, whether that's video editing skills, knowing how social media works, or how to talk in front of a camera.

Time it takes: 15-30 hours per week
How much you can earn: $100-$3,500+ per month

14. Sell online courses

By selling courses online, you can take a subject you already know a lot about and craft an entire course. In fact, selling courses is one of the best passive income ideas out there, because once a course is out, you may not need to update it for quite some time—and even if you do, it'll only take a small amount of time.

Many platforms can help you make your course, but Whop is the easiest option by far. With a built-in Course feature, you can start selling your knowledge in just a few minutes.

Time it takes: 20-40 hours per course, depending on its complexity and length
How much you can earn: $20-$2,000+ per course sale

15. Sell fitness plans

Do you know what's harder than getting fit? Getting fit if you don't have a clue what you're doing. This is where you come in — as long as you have an interest in fitness or sports, you can offer personalized (or not personalized, but specific) advice to those of us who could really use it.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a better platform to sell your fitness programs through than right here on Whop, by the way.

You can offer one-on-one calls, set up a fitness community (complete with goals and awards), or record yourself and charge for your exclusive courses. Plus, you can complement this with downloadable worksheets and guides.

Time it takes: 5-20 hours per week
How much you can earn: $20-$200+ per sale

16. Run a life hack blog

You'll never meet a person who would turn down a way to make life easier. This can cover everything from budget tips to DIY projects and productivity hacks.

If you want to hone in even more on a niche, you can do something like a recipe blog or travel deals. People will pay a small amount of money for the potential to save more, so you can charge a subscription fee for regular new posts and tips or a one-time fee for more of a life hack guide format.

Time it takes: 25-30 hours per week
How much you can earn: $50-$1,500+ per month, depending on marketing, ads, brand deals, etc.

17. Sell coloring pages

Market research has shown that the adult coloring book industry is on track for a 7.48% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), meaning that by 2031, it'll be a $114.67 billion industry. That's a juicy prospect, and if you have any skill with art and design, you can take a slice of that pie.

You can use Whop to sell your designs, as well as all sorts of other downloadables. Etsy is also a popular option for all things creative.

Time it takes: 20-30 hours per book
How much you can earn: $5-$50 per sale

18. Write travel guides

Travel and tourism is a $1.9 trillion industry. If you're a world traveler—or even someone who's traveled to cool or interesting places within their own country—you can make money from it. People love to seek out information about places they want to go to, so you can make travel guides to help them out.

You can market these travel guides as one-off publications like ebooks, or you can post regularly on a travel blog with advertising revenue coming in through ads and affiliate links.

Time it takes: 10-20 hours per week
How much you can earn: $50-$1,500+ per month, depending on marketing, ads, brand deals, etc.

19. Clipping content

You've probably seen streamer clips while scrolling social media. Maybe a video where KaiCenat invites a celebrity to his stream, or maybe IShowSpeed racing with other influencers. Those videos are called 'clips.'

Clips are essentially videos extracted from long-form content like YouTube videos and streams. Because they're short and engaging, they tend to get millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes. They are a goldmine for content creators who want to promote their stuff.

Of course, they need clippers to do this - and they're ready to pay. You post clips, the content creator gets promoted, and you get paid - it's a win-win situation.

If clipping sounds like a good side hustle to you, join the Content Rewards whop to find out how you can get started.

Time it takes: 5-10 hours per week
How much you can earn: $5-$3,500+ per clip

20. Develop and monetize apps

If you're one of the lucky (and smart!) ones and you know what you're doing when faced with a line of code, why not make money off of your skills?

By developing apps that offer unique features, you can monetize them per usage or per install. Of course, developing apps can sound scary at first, but if you have the right skills or the right tools, like an AI to help you with it, you can bring your ideas to life.

Since you're here, we'd want to share a secret with you: you don't even have to worry about things like user authentication or payment processing systems. Using Whop's software development kit, you can develop apps that take advantage of Whop's authentication and payment systems.

If the idea of developing apps within the Whop ecosystem sounds good to you, make sure to check out our developer docs.

Time it takes: 10-50+ hours per app
How much you can earn: Depending on the monetization method, from $500 to tens of thousands of dollars if you sell the app and $50-$2,000+ per month for subscriptions

Tech side hustles that pay big bucks

21. Create and sell websites

If you have experience with coding languages like JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, you can create websites and sell them to clients. Of course, knowing the languages doesn't cut it - you need to be good with UX/UI (user experience and user interface) basics and SEO, too.

Using tools like WordPress, Squarespace, and Wix can help you build websites. Reach out to businesses, brands, or creators who need websites (or want their current site improved). This can become a solid side hustle.

You can also find clients on freelance platforms like Upwork, Fiverr, and Freelancer, getting in contact with local businesses, or directly creating a store page (on Whop) for your work so that people can discover your talent and work with you.

Time it takes: 30-40 hours per week
How much you can earn: $25-$100+ per hour

Freelance and online services

22. Become a virtual assistant

With a few hours a week, you can list yourself as a virtual assistant through an agency like Zirtual, on a gig marketplace like Upwork, or by creating your VA business on Whop.

As a virtual assistant, you can help businesses or people with tasks like scheduling appointments, making travel arrangements, making phone calls, or anything an administrative assistant would normally do.

The downside? There's no such thing as "passive income" as a virtual assistant—you get paid per hour.

Time it takes: 20-40 hours per week
How much you can earn: $10-$30+ per hour

23. Provide transcription services

With transcription work, you can make extra money by converting audio files into a written text format. Having a transcript is useful for people like journalists or podcasters.

A lot of legal professionals also hire transcribers to have written court records, so if you have legal experience, you can charge a premium for that.

You can search transcriber-specific platforms like Rev or Appen to find transcription work.

Time it takes: 30 hours per week
How much you can earn: $10-$25+ per hour

Managing social media can be a side hustle that pays a lot for a relatively small time commitment. Writing the posts for a week and sourcing or creating graphics can be done in 1-2 hours, with customer engagement being done in five-minute chunks throughout the week.

This is ideal for someone with a few minutes to spare every day, but you'll need to know the basics of digital marketing and SEO.

Social media managers regularly rely on SaaS like Hootsuite, Buffer, and Sprout to schedule things in advance so that a lot of work can be done at one time.

Time it takes: 20-40 hours per week
How much you can earn: $15-$40 per hour

25. Online community management

If you've ever visited a subreddit, a whop, a Discord server, or a Telegram channel, there's a very high chance you've seen someone who moderates the community. They are called 'community moderators.'

A community moderator's job is engaging with the community, making sure no one is breaking the rules, addressing member concerns, and keeping the community alive and well. A good community manager has strong communication skills and understands the platform they're using very well.

If you believe in your communication skills and you have experience using a platform that supports communities, you can join existing communities or freelancing platforms (like ModSquad, Upwork, and Fiverr) to find community management gigs.

Time it takes: 30-40 hours per week
How much you can earn: $10-$30+ per hour

26. Offer video editing services

YouTube and TikTok continue to dominate the social media field, and there are countless videos being posted on those platforms every day — you probably watch some.

The videos that rank higher than others tend to be professionally made — good footage, good editing. This is why many content creators look for people to edit their videos so that they can perform better.

Video editing is done with software like CapCut, After Effects, and Premiere Pro. If you have experience using these programs or if you're willing to learn, you should consider offering video editing services online.

After building a portfolio of your work, you can set up a store on platforms like Whop or sign up to freelancing platforms like Fiverr and Upwork to find new gigs.

Time it takes: 10-40 hours per week
How much you can earn: $5-$500+ per video edited, depending on the form of content

Ecommerce and reselling side jobs

27. Become a reseller

The business plan for a reseller is simple: buy something at a lower price, and sell it for more. Some of the popular areas for reselling include clothing, sneakers, electronics, and collectibles.

There are a lot of platforms that exist solely for reselling. Depending on what it is you want to sell, you can check out the market on websites like eBay, Depop, Poshmark, and Mercari.

Time it takes: 10-20 hours per week
How much you can earn: $20-$40 per hour

28. Join the Amazon Affiliate program

Joining the Amazon Affiliate program is a great side hustle because it requires almost nothing from you upfront. You'll just need to convincingly advertise a product and get the buyer to click your link, and then, like magic, you'll get a percentage of the profit.

We won't lie to you: to make money through this, you'll need a following of people who are interested in hearing what you recommend. This is a great source of passive income for those who run a blog, a popular social media profile, a newsletter, or a YouTube channel.

Time it takes: Around 20 hours per week
How much you can earn: $20-$40+ per hour

29. Sell through Amazon FBA

With Fulfillment by Amazon, you source products from wholesalers and use Amazon to list them for sale. It's not as nice as dropshipping, but it's kind of a halfway point.

Amazon handles the packaging and the shipping, as well as the customer service; you just source the products and manage inventory.

Time it takes: 20-25 hours per week
How much you can earn: $15-$30 per hour

30. Get into dropshipping

Do you fancy yourself an ecommerce master, but you don't want to deal with all the hassle of managing inventory and shipping? Good news: dropshipping still nets you a profit while cutting out some of the annoying parts of running a store.

As a dropshipper, you source products (often from overseas) and list them for sale on a platform of your choice.

You're the link between the customer and the store or manufacturer; you don't have to do anything related to order fulfillment, but you still manage customer service.

Time it takes: 10-15 hours per week
How much you can earn: $100-$5,000+ per month

Gig economy work

31. Become a Flex driver

Amazon hires part-time delivery drivers through its Flex program, making between $18-25 an hour before your standard driver expenses like gas and insurance.

You use your own vehicles and work on a flexible schedule, picking up delivery blocks based on the time you have available.

That means if you have a few hours free on weekends or in the evening after your day job, you can just pick up a shift or two and bring in some extra cash without needing to commit to a whole second job.

Time it takes: Around 8 hours per day
How much you can earn: $18-$25 an hour

32. Complete paid surveys

How's this for a low-commitment way of making some extra cash? Companies like Swagbucks and Survey Junkie will pay you to give feedback on products and services. Also, keep an eye out for research surveys from universities or educational resources, which might take longer but often pay a little better—Prolific is one platform to watch.

As a side hustle, this is more geared toward people who want some extra money to cover their Starbucks every week than people who want a viable income supplement.

But if all you want is a few extra dollars, it can be a good return for only minutes of your day.

Time it takes: 1-3 hours per week
How much you can earn: $1-$10+ per survey completed

33. Rent out a room through Airbnb

Airbnb can be a great way to earn some extra money, especially if you live in a city that hosts popular events or has a lot of tourism appeal. People will pay a premium for a convenient location and positive reviews, so just make sure the space stays clean and you offer what amenities you can.

With Airbnb, you can choose the dates that your room is available to fit with your own schedule, opting out of renting during times when it may not fit your lifestyle.

Time it takes: Around 3 hours after customers leave
How much you can earn: Depending on the type of room, $100-$200+ per night

34. Pet sit

If you enjoy the company of furry friends, you can actually get paid just to take care of someone else's cat, dog, chinchilla, or turtle… you get the idea.

People will pay good money to have someone come and check in on their pet while they're gone, but you can also run a little pet daycare at your own home. To find pet-sitting jobs in your local area, you can use sites like Rover or Sittercity.

Time it takes: Flexible schedule, ranging from a couple of hours to multiple days depending on the customer
How much you can earn: $20-$100 per day

35. Become a rideshare driver

With your own car and a clean driving/legal record, you can join a rideshare app as a driver. Companies like Uber and Lyft employ drivers but allow their drivers the freedom to set their own schedules completely. You can choose to only work during peak hours to make the most money, or just pick up a few riders when you happen to have the time.

Along the same line, most of the rideshare services have a branch that specifically does food delivery. That may be a great option if you don't enjoy the people aspect of being a driver or want to ensure more personal safety.

Time it takes: Flexible schedule, ranging from several hours to 8 per day
How much you can earn: Around $20 per hour

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The best side hustles give you total freedom to do what you want. Most platforms don't give you that freedom — but Whop does.

Whop allows you to start all kinds of side hustles, right from the comfort of your home. Want to start a clipping business? What about a graphic design agency? Whatever you're thinking, you can do it on Whop.

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FAQs

How do I choose the right side hustle for me?

There are dozens of side hustles you can pursue, but finding the right one starts with considering your skills, availability, investment capability (for some side hustles), and the area you want to work in.

How can I find side hustle opportunities?

You can start by using platforms like Rover (for pet sitting), Rev (for transcription), or Italki (for tutoring). But the most flexible and rewarding side hustles are the ones you create yourself.

By building around your skills and interests, you can earn on your own terms — and even work toward passive income. Tools like Whop make it easy to launch your own digital hustle in minutes. You can also browse Reddit for ideas and inspiration.

Can I start doing side hustles with no investment?

You absolutely can. While there are side hustles that require an investment, like reselling, you can find side hustles that require no investment as well, like clipping or selling online courses.

Should I quit my full-time job to pursue my side hustle?

At the start, no. Once you've been running your side hustle for some time and the income you generate reaches a sufficient level, you should consider whether you can scale it or not. If it can be scaled and you'd rather work on your side hustle, you might want to consider leaving your full-time job.

But remember, a job is better than none, so don't give up on your full-time job too early.

How much can I earn from a side hustle?

The amount of money you can make from a side hustle depends on what you do. While completing online surveys can make you pocket cash for little effort, creating and selling comprehensive online courses can make you a lot if you build the course well and market it right.

What are the best side hustle jobs?

The best side hustles offer high reward with low effort — especially ones that sell digital products or services. They’re flexible, low-cost to start, and can earn you passive income over time. Think: eBooks, online courses, stock photos, SaaS, design assets, or even digital communities. With platforms like Whop, you can create, list, and sell your digital content in minutes.