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Already, 2.9 million freelancers earned more than $100,000 last year, up from 2 million who hit the six-figure mark just four years earlier, according to MBO Partners.

Nearly 80 percent of those who work for themselves said they were happier working on their own and plan on remaining independent, and one in seven non-independent workers is considering going freelance, the MBO report found. About 45 percent said they make more money working on their own full-time. http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/01/12/Why-Freelancing-Hot-Work-Trend

Millions of professionals are skipping the traditional corporate structure and turning to freelancing, consulting or temp/on-demand assignments. According to a study by MBO Partners, the U.S. economy currently has 30.2 million independent workers — and that number is expected to hit nearly 38 million by 2020.

MBO Partners CEO Gene Zaino shares insights on the three best practices companies should employ to attract and hire millennial independent contractor talent in this Huff Post Business Blog entry.

Other reformers hold up the Affordable Care Act, which provides independent workers with a path to decently priced health care, as a model for other types of benefits. The ACA has resulted in a surge in the number of insured. (According to MBO Partners, which provides back-office support for independent contractors, a survey of those…

Independent workers, which include contractors, consultants, taxi drivers, web designers, technology developers, artists and freelancers, contributed more than $1 trillion to the economy in 2014, according to a report by Virginia-based MBO Partners, a management services firm…People are successful in the independent workforce when they build confidence and have a network through referrals, said Gene…

In fact, MBO Partners found in its 2015 report on the state of the independent workforce that 16 percent of full-time independent workers indicated earning more than $100,000 annually.

In Silicon Valley, where thousands of contractors and freelancers are hired every week…private companies like MBO Partners are emerging to handle the benefits of contingent workers who work for many employers.

Our own research reinforces these findings. The MBO Partners 2015 State of Independence workforce study found that 6.4 million Americans report that they provide professional services to corporations on a contingent or contract basis. Of these, about 2 million report earning $75,000 or more last year.

MBO Partners’ annual State of Independence Survey estimates that 17.8 million Americans are full-time independent contractors (independent work is their main source of income and accounts for more than 15 hours of their weekly work), while 12.4 million are only part-time independent (and typically have an alternative job). – See more at: http://payable.com/blog/what-is-a-1099-independent-contractor#sthash.RGzIaMbA.dpuf