Finance Filters

Finance filters screen jobs by budget and payment verification. All are optional — leave them at their defaults to receive everything within your categories.

Verification Toggles

Payment Verified

Default: ON

When ON, you receive all jobs regardless of whether the client has verified payment. When OFF, only jobs from clients with verified payment are sent.

Hourly Rate Unspecified

Default: ON

Some hourly jobs on Upwork don't list a specific rate range. When ON, these jobs are included. When OFF, only hourly jobs with a defined rate range are sent — your minimum hourly rate filter (if set) still applies.

Budget Minimums

Minimum Hourly Rate

Set a floor, in USD/hr. A job offering $15–30/hr won't pass a $25 minimum — the upper end of the range must meet your threshold.

Only affects hourly jobs with a defined rate range. Fixed-price jobs ignore this entirely.

Leave empty to accept all hourly rates.

Minimum Fixed Price

Set a floor, in USD, for fixed-price jobs. Anything below this amount is filtered out.

Only affects fixed-price jobs. Hourly jobs ignore this entirely.

Leave empty to accept all fixed-price budgets.

How Matching Works

Each Upwork job has one of these budget types:

Budget type	What it means	Checked against
Fixed	A single price, e.g. $500	Minimum fixed price
Hourly range	A rate range, e.g. $20–40/hr	Minimum hourly rate (upper end)
Hourly unspecified	Hourly, but no rate listed	Hourly unspecified toggle

All finance filters are independent — a job must pass all active checks to be sent. Leave any filter at its default to skip that check entirely.

Tips

• Don't set a minimum fixed price too high — many legitimate jobs have modest budgets, especially from new clients
• The minimum hourly rate uses the upper end of the range: $15–30/hr passes a $25 minimum
• Turning "Payment verified" OFF reduces job volume — most new clients don't have it yet