A bookkeeping side hustle offers incredible flexibility. It allows you to balance work with personal life. It also opens opportunities to work with a wide range of clients from different locations.

Here's an easy way to think about it—bookkeepers lay the groundwork by recording financial transactions so that accountants can analyze financial statements and provide strategic recommendations.

Yes, a bookkeeping business can be very profitable. In fact, ZipRecruiter reports that the national average income for an independent bookkeeper is $56,100, though some report income as high as $122,000. The cost of doing business is relatively low, mostly related to bookkeeping software, so profit margins are high.

Bookkeeping is definitely tedious since the bookkeeper needs to manage financial information both in digital and physical platforms, but the job becomes much more difficult if the person-in-charge is not cultivating healthy habits that allow them and their team to keep things organized.