@Jesse N wrote:
Avoid hourly jobs if you can. It's an enormous pain in the neck to get paid. If you have the ability to go without pay for 2 weeks and you know you're going to be consitently billing a sufficient amount of hours every week, then go for it. If not, don't bother. It takes much longer (wait for week closing, wait up to a week for client review, wait another 6 days for Upwork stare at your money before deciding to wire it) than just doing a quick milestone. By milestone you can just jump straight to the Upwork staring at your money for 6 days stage.
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Jesse,
You have not got it quite right about milestones. When you submit your work and request release of payment, the client has various options. He or she can pay authorize the release of the money held in escrow immediately, in which case the money should be in a freelancer's Upwork account within six days as you say.
However, a client has fourteen days in which to review the work before authorizing the release of payment. If a client does not authorize payment and does not request changes or dispute the work, then payment is automatically released to the freelancer by Upwork. The freelancer then has to wait another six days before being able to withdraw their money. So - a potential wait of up to 20 days.
