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Lifetime, in theory. In practice, you can move the relationship off Upwork after 2 years.

See https://support.upwork.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043210654-Mo...

> Taking a relationship outside of Upwork without first paying the Conversion Fee is a serious violation of the our Terms of Service.

This sounds like something a pimp or a mob boss would say.

It's hard to find any important difference between the two.

Has anyone paid this fee? I think when it gets to the point of dropping 12% of a freelancer's annual income to just talk outside of the platform it's simply not worth it.

If you wait two years per grandparent's post, the fee is only $1, which probably is worth it.

If you want to convert sooner, it's a percentage of the income for that specific client/freelancer relationship, and not total work for the freelancer. So it is probably a more palatable amount, assuming the freelancer has multiple clients.

Yeah but the fee is calculated as a percentage of a full time (2080 hour) year. So it's only worthwhile if you're being hired fulltime, near full time, or at a much higher rate than your existing upwork rate.

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