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Upwork main competitors are DocuSign, Twilio, and Square.

Competitor Summary. See how Upwork compares to its main competitors:

  • DocuSign has the most employees (7,461).
  • Employees at DocuSign earn more than most of the competitors, with an average yearly salary of $135,649.
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Upwork vs competitors

CompanyFounding dateZippia scoreHeadquarters# of LocationsRevenueEmployees
1999
4.9
San Francisco, CA1$769.3M540
2003
4.4
San Francisco, CA7$3.0B7,461
2008
4.1
Boston, MA1$17.5M200
1846
4.7
New York, NY2$568.1M3,300
2013
3.3
San Francisco, CA1$13.0M750
2009
4.2
San Francisco, CA8$24.1B3,835
The Editors
-
4.4
Lisle, IL1--
2014
3.7
Austin, TX1$640,00030
2008
4.5
San Francisco, CA8$4.5B6,000
1999
3.6
New York, NY1$1.0M30
2005
4.2
New York, NY1$14.0M350
Writer
-
4.2
Greendale, WI1--
2002
3.8
Redmond, WA1$12.0M125
1978
4.1
Los Angeles, CA1$11.0M300
2006
3.9
San Francisco, CA1$3.5M31
2011
3.9
Burbank, CA1$2.1M25
Online News Association
1999
3.8
Washington, DC1$2.0M15
2006
3.6
Portland, OR1$990,00025
-
3.7
Bentonville, AR1-200
Issue Media Group
1991
3.6
Detroit, MI1$260,0002
2005
4.0
Burlingame, CA1$6.4M75

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Company nameJobs openingsRemote jobs openings
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880880
67352
650650

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Upwork salaries vs competitors

Among Upwork competitors, employees at DocuSign earn the most with an average yearly salary of $135,649.

Compare Upwork salaries vs competitors

CompanyAverage salaryHourly salarySalary score
Upwork
$62,492$30.04-
DocuSign
$135,649$65.22-
Brafton
$69,664$33.49-
The Associated Press
$62,361$29.98-
Bridgehead Media
$46,634$22.42-
Square
$119,615$57.51-

Compare Upwork job title salaries vs competitors

CompanyHighest salaryHourly salary
Upwork
$77,183$37.11
DocuSign
$104,552$50.27
Square
$97,797$47.02
Community Publishers Inc
$90,861$43.68
Twilio
$89,777$43.16
Issue Media Group
$87,609$42.12
Brafton
$80,104$38.51
Red Tricycle
$59,681$28.69
Paizo
$58,928$28.33
IBT Media
$56,704$27.26
Book in a Box
$54,673$26.29
Bridgehead Media
$54,667$26.28
Online News Association
$51,380$24.70
LA Weekly
$49,796$23.94
The Associated Press
$48,984$23.55
Okayplayer
$44,484$21.39
The Editors
$43,987$21.15
Geek & Sundry
$43,466$20.90
Writer
$38,787$18.65
LoveToKnow Media
$38,649$18.58

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Upwork demographics vs competitors

Compare gender at Upwork vs competitors

Job titleMaleFemale
Red Tricycle22%78%
Upwork44%56%
Square56%44%
The Associated Press61%39%
DocuSign69%31%
Twilio79%21%
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Compare race at Upwork vs competitors

CompanyWhiteHispanic or LatinoBlack or African AmericanAsianUnknownDiversity score
60%15%9%10%5%
9.7
50%20%9%13%9%
9.5
45%16%7%26%6%
8.4
57%17%6%11%10%
8.9
60%15%12%9%4%
9.0
49%24%8%14%4%
7.1

Upwork revenue vs competitors

Upwork revenue is $769.3M. Among it's competitors, the company with the highest revenue is Square, $24.1B . The company with the lowest revenue is Issue Media Group, $260.0K.

Upwork and similar companies CEOs

CEOBio
Jack Patrick Dorsey
Square

Jack Patrick Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) is an American billionaire technology entrepreneur and philanthropist who is the co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and the founder and CEO of Square, a financial payments company.

Jeffery G. Lawson
Twilio

Jeff is a serial inventor with over 15 years of entrepreneurial and product experience. Prior to co-founding Twilio, Jeff was Founder & CTO of NineStar, Founding CTO of Stubhub.com and Founder, CEO & CTO of Versity. He was also one of the original product managers for Amazon Web Services. At every business, Jeff identified the fundamental need for a platform for developers and companies to easily build communications-based business solutions. Jeff grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, started his first company in middle school, and earned his BS in Computer Science & Film/Video from University of Michigan

Daniel D. Springer
DocuSign

Daniel Springer serves as CEO of DocuSign where he leads more than 4,000 employees worldwide to empower organizations of every size and industry to modernize their systems of agreement with the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, helping them make every agreement 100% digital. Springer has more than 25 years of executive leadership and experience in driving innovation and hyper growth across technology and, specifically, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry. Prior to DocuSign, Springer served as Chairman and CEO at Responsys for ten years where he transformed and scaled the business from private start up to the leading cross-channel marketing automation platform globally as a publicly traded company. Springer then led the sale of Responsys to Oracle for $1.6 billion. During his tenure, Springer was honored as both a Bay Area Most Admired CEO and Best CEO. Previously, he was Managing Director of Modem Media and also served as CEO at Telleo, Inc., CMO at NextCard, and a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He started his career at DRI/McGraw-Hill and Pacific Telesis. Springer holds an MBA from Harvard University and an AB in Mathematics and Economics from Occidental College. Springer serves or has served as a board member at both public and private companies, including iCIMS, Ansira, YuMe, ELOAN (Banco Popular), Heighten, Persado, and eGroups (Yahoo!), as well as at nonprofits, including YearUp, The Urban School, Shop.org, AdTech, The Randall Museum and The San Francisco Friends School.

Daisy Veerasingham
The Associated Press

Daisy Veerasingham was named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in February of 2021. Veerasingham had been chief revenue officer since 2019, and continues to lead the company’s revenue division and serve on the AP Management Committee. Veerasingham joined AP in 2004 as sales director for AP Television News in London and was promoted to senior vice president for international revenue in 2010. In that role, she led all international content licensing, AP Global Media Services and AP’s video business, including the news agency’s multichannel live video service. Prior to joining AP, she was group sales and marketing director at LexisNexis and also held sales and marketing roles at the Financial Times. Based in London, Veerasingham will relocate to AP’s headquarters in New York.

Jacqui Boland
Red Tricycle

Thomas Agnew
Brafton

Brian Boyle
Issue Media Group

Etienne Uzac
IBT Media

Howard Love
LoveToKnow Media

Peter Krause
Bridgehead Media

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