Freelancer, a freelance jobs micro-outsourcing marketplace, announced that over 500,000 freelance jobs have been posted to date through the website.

Freelancer connects over one million employers and freelancers globally. The range of services that employers can hire freelancers to do work in are areas such as software, writing, data entry and design right through to engineering and the sciences, sales and marketing, and accounting & legal services. The service is cost effective for small businesses, which often need a wide variety of jobs to be done, but cannot justify the expense of hiring full time.

Over 500,000 jobs have been posted to date, for a sum of over US$45 million.