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 == Education Levels of Upwork Freelancers ==
 Majority of Upwork freelancers have college degrees. According to Upwork 2021 presentation, 73% of Upwork freelancers had college degrees while 21% had post-graduate degrees<ref>https://investors.upwork.com/static-files/d4ef2d59-4aaa-45f9-909e-8638164f88da (page 8)</ref>.
+== Quality of Freelancers ==
+There are over 12 million registered freelancers in Upwork<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upwork#cite_note-:2-4</ref>. These freelancers are broken down into top rated plus freelancers, top rated freelancers, expert-vetted freelancers, rising talent and others. Below is an estimate of the number of freelancers in each platform<ref>https://support.upwork.com/hc/en-us/articles/360049702614-Upwork-s-Talent-Badges</ref>.
+* Top rated plus freelancers represent the top 3% of performers on Upwork(360,000 freelancers)
+* Expert-vetted freelancers represent top 1% of talent on Upwork(120,000)
+* Top rated freelancers represent top 10% of talent on Upwork(1.2 million)
+* Upwork does not give the number of rising talent but we expect it to be large.
+As it can be seen, the top rated freelancers exceeds the number of active clients plus enterprise clients(900k), implying that the platform is made up of quality freelancers.
 == References ==