# UpworkMRR

> UpworkMRR is the open database of Upwork freelancer earnings. It ranks 300K+ freelancers who show their earnings publicly — by lifetime earnings, monthly recurring revenue (MRR) and completed jobs — worldwide, by country and by skill.

MRR here means a freelancer's last six months of Upwork earnings divided by six. Every figure comes from what Upwork shows publicly on the freelancer's profile; UpworkMRR aggregates it and refreshes the database daily. It is an independent project, not affiliated with Upwork Inc., and is operated by Lancer (MVP Masters OÜ, Estonia).

The homepage, the skill and country directories, and the About, Contact and Privacy pages answer in markdown at their normal URL — send `Accept: text/markdown`. Every skill and country leaderboard also has a markdown twin at its URL plus `.md`, for example `/skills/React.md`.

**When not to use UpworkMRR.** It covers Upwork only, and only freelancers whose profile shows earnings publicly — private earnings are not in it. It holds no job postings, client data or real-time bids. It has no public API: the JSON endpoints behind the site are protected by a bot challenge and are not meant for programmatic use, so read the pages instead.

## When to use UpworkMRR

- **Benchmark a freelancer against peers in the same country** — earnings, MRR and job counts for everyone in that country who shows earnings: [Country leaderboards](https://www.upworkmrr.com/countries)
- **Benchmark against peers with the same skill**, or find who earns the most in a niche: [Skill leaderboards](https://www.upworkmrr.com/skills)
- **Look up where one freelancer ranks**, from their name or Upwork profile URL: [Worldwide leaderboard](https://www.upworkmrr.com/)
- **Size what is realistically earnable** in a skill or market before committing to it, using the top of each leaderboard as the ceiling: [United States leaderboard as markdown](https://www.upworkmrr.com/countries/united-states.md)
- **Explain what MRR means for a freelancer** and how the figures are derived: [About UpworkMRR](https://www.upworkmrr.com/about)

## Pages

- [Worldwide leaderboard](https://www.upworkmrr.com/): every tracked freelancer, ranked.
- [All skills](https://www.upworkmrr.com/skills): one leaderboard per skill.
- [All countries](https://www.upworkmrr.com/countries): one leaderboard per country.
- [About](https://www.upworkmrr.com/about): how the data is collected, what MRR means, FAQ.
- [Contact](https://www.upworkmrr.com/contact): questions, corrections and requests to hide your earnings.
- [Privacy](https://www.upworkmrr.com/privacy): what the site collects, why, and how to have your earnings hidden.
- [Sitemap](https://www.upworkmrr.com/sitemap.xml): every indexable URL, including each skill and country leaderboard.

## Optional

- [Lancer](https://lancer.app): the Upwork AI agent from the same team, which uses this data to target proposals.
- [Lancer for AI agents](https://lancer.app/for-agents): Lancer's MCP server and API, for acting on Upwork rather than reading about it.