After Upwork
- 22%Founded something4
- 22%Joined a startup4
- 56%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Upwork most often go to a long tail of companies. 22% found something next. 22% go small. Median stay 2y 2m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Upwork's headcount: 27 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 360 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 270.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 622% of the people here
- Moved on
- 2178% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 2mmiddle half 11m to 3y 4m
Put Upwork side by side with another company, every number against every number.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Upwork yet.
How long people stay
30%<1y
19%1-2y
37%2-4y
11%4-7y
4%7y+
27 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1012
0013
1114
2015
3116
1217
1218
5119
3220
1621
3122
1123
2124
1125
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 25 joined, 19 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (27).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer4
- Freelance Software Developer3
- Freelance Web Developer3
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 33% of people here.
Where they studied
- Harvard11.5%
The one school among the 26 people here with a school on file.
Of the 26 people here with a school on file, 3 list Harvard.
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 than that here.
Where they are now
44% of the people who have worked at Upwork and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Upwork
Everyone on the map
- 44%New York12 · map 33%
- 30%SF Bay Area8 · map 47%
- 15%Washington DC4 · map 7%
- 11%Somewhere else3
All 27 people who worked at Upwork 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 they worked at Upwork: a metro here does not mean the company has an office in it. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map, for comparison.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Upwork, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 27 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Upwork: 6 are there now and 21 have moved on.
- The median tenure at Upwork is 2y 2m (middle half 11m to 3y 4m).
- Of those who moved on from Upwork, 22% went on to a founder title, 22% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and fewer than 3 joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The most common title held at Upwork is Software Engineer, then Freelance Software Developer.
- Of the 26 people here with a school on file, 3 list Harvard (11.5%). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 44% of the 27 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
About this data: built from 144,786 jobs across 26,572 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated August 20, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving; companies with fewer than 20 people on the map are not shown, and destinations with fewer than 3 people are folded into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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