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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3192 - Q&A: “How can a freelancer pay herself a stable salary?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Feast-or-famine income doesn’t have to mean feast-or-famine life. Today we build a simple three-bucket system that turns lumpy freelance revenue into a steady, predictable paycheck.

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0:00.0

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0:05.8

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0:11.1

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0:46.5

Lemonada.

0:51.1

How can a freelancer pay herself a stable salary? Feast or famine income doesn't have to mean

1:01.9

feast or famine life. We're going to talk today about a simple system that turns lumpy freelance

1:08.1

revenue into a more predictable paycheck. And this is a big issue for new

1:12.5

freelancers in particular. You get into freelancing because it offers freedom. And that sounds great.

1:18.7

You're setting your own schedule. You're going out and attracting the clients you want. And all

1:22.6

of that is fine and well until the calendar turns into cliffhanger months, nail-biter invoices, and a plot twist called

1:29.8

quarterly taxes. So today we've got a listener who is, I believe she is a designer. Her income

1:36.5

swings quite a bit. She makes $8,000 some months. Other months, she makes a bit more than $1,000.

1:43.0

So, you know, quite a range here.

1:45.3

She doesn't want a complicated corporate payroll.

1:47.6

She just wants rent money that shows up on time every month.

1:50.8

So let's talk about that system, that three bucket system that can help you have more

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