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The gig economy has become typified by piecemeal jobs found on platforms like Uber and Etsy, but that's just part of a larger sea change in the American labor force: 54 million workers considered themselves freelancers last year. Here are the 10 US cities with the most opportunities for them, according to Thumbtack.
No surprise, San Francisco is number one on the list. Silicon Valley is home to some of the world’s most innovative companies, Apple, Facebook, and Google among them. The bulk of the leading "gig economy" platforms, including Uber, are headquartered there. There is some debate about whether the region’s explosive economic growth has it poised for another crash like the end of the dot-com boom, but for now the Bay Area is riding high.
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