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Your books reconciled, bills paid on time and month-end done without the scramble. Every bookkeeper here passed an English test, a typing test and a bookkeeping quiz before you see them.

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What bookkeepers cost

Freelance rate, worldwide
$11–25/hr

Typical range for bookkeepers on past Upwork contracts. Upwork (opens in a new tab), checked Oct 2026

Full-time salary in the Philippines
$600–2,000/month

Beginner $600–1,000 to expert $1,200–2,000, as workers report them in its accountant category. OnlineJobs.ph salary guide (opens in a new tab), updated April 2026

US employee wage, median
$24.36/hr

Bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks, $50,670 a year. US Bureau of Labor Statistics (opens in a new tab), May 2025 data

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What a bookkeeper does

  • Bank and credit card reconciliations
  • Coding transactions and chasing missing receipts
  • Invoicing and polite reminders on late payments
  • Supplier bills and payment runs
  • Month-end close and simple reports
  • Payroll support in tools like QuickBooks or Xero

How we test bookkeepers

Everyone takes the same tests before a business sees them, and the scores stay on the profile. You judge the work, not the photo.
English
Read a client's email, answer five questions about it and write a reply of 80 to 150 words. AI grades the reply for grammar, clarity, tone and whether it answers the email. The result is a CEFR band from A2 to C2 with a score out of 100.
Typing
A 60-second passage written like month-end notes to a client. Scored on words per minute and accuracy, with 5 characters counted as a word. Only correct characters count.
Bookkeeper quiz
Six questions from a bookkeeper's month, like reconciling a bank feed, recording a prepaid annual plan and spotting a duplicate bill, plus a short written message about a payment nobody can explain. Scored out of 100.
ID check
A person on our team checks a government ID against a selfie. The images are deleted after review.
Maria B., example profile

Maria B.

Bookkeeper, Philippines

English C2
88
Typing
64wpm
Bookkeeper quiz
94
Example profile. Real profiles show the same three scores, each with the date of the test.

Tested bookkeepers on StaffPick

Live profiles. Each person passed the tests above, and we reviewed the profile before it went live.

A US Eastern 9-to-5 is 10 pm to 6 am in Manila, 3 pm to 11 pm in Lagos and 9 am to 5 pm in Bogotá (on EST). A Sydney 9-to-5 is 7 am to 3 pm in Manila (AEST). Every profile shows which business hours the person covers.

IANA time zone database (opens in a new tab), checked Oct 2026

Questions about hiring a bookkeeper

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Upwork puts the typical rate for bookkeepers at $11–25 an hour, from past contracts worldwide. OnlineJobs.ph's April 2026 guide lists $600–1,000 a month full-time for a beginner in its accountant category in the Philippines, and $1,200–2,000 for an expert. In the US, the median wage for bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks was $24.36 an hour in May 2025 (BLS).

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