After Freelance | Self-Employed
- 16%Joined a startup3
- 84%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Freelance | Self-Employed most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 16% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 2m
Not Freelance | Self-Employed's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 26 people on a map of 67,181, No. 976 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 26Under 0.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 727% of the people here
- Moved on
- 1973% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 2mmiddle half 1y 6m to 2y 11m
Put Freelance | Self-Employed side by side with another employer.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Freelance | Self-Employed yet.
How long people stay
24%<1y
12%1-2y
40%2-4y
20%4-7y
4%7y+
25 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2014 to 2026: 25 joined, 18 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (7).
Titles held here
No titles on the record yet.
First job on the record for 35% of people here.
Where they studied
- University of Maryland12.5%
The one school among the 24 people here with a school on file.
3 of the 24 people here with a school on file list University of Maryland.
Public work
Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer here.
Where they are now
31% of the people who have worked at Freelance | Self-Employed and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
Freelance | Self-Employed
Everyone on the map
- 31%Washington DC8 · map 13%
- 23%New York6 · map 18%
- 23%SF Bay Area6 · map 41%
- 23%Somewhere else6
All 26 people who worked at Freelance | Self-Employed list a location, and every share here is over them.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at Freelance | Self-Employed: a metro here isn't an office there. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Freelance | Self-Employed, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 26 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Freelance | Self-Employed: 7 are there now, 19 have moved on.
- Median tenure at Freelance | Self-Employed: 2y 2m, middle half 1y 6m to 2y 11m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Freelance | Self-Employed, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 16% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and fewer than 3 joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Top school: University of Maryland, listed by 3 of the 24 people here with one on file (12.5%).
- 31% of the 26 people here who list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
About this data: built from 352,028 jobs across 67,181 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated September 30, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving. Companies under 20 people on the map aren't shown, and destinations under 3 people fold into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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