What a reply actually costs you
Upwork sells Connects at $0.15 each and most proposals cost 4 to 6, more with a boost. Put your own numbers in and see the cost per reply and per hire.
4 to 6 is typical, more with a boost.
- Connects a month
- 240
- What they cost
- $36
- Replies
- 3.0
- Cost per reply
- $12
- Hires
- 0.6
- Cost per hire
- $60
At these numbers you would earn $1,200 a month from $36 of Connects.
The lever most people ignore is the reply rate, and the biggest input to that is which jobs you bid on. Analysis of 133,872 agency proposals put cost per hire at about $47 without filtering and $18 to $24 with it. Try changing the reply rate by two points and watch the cost per hire move.
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