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Mturk help?
« on: July 26, 2016, 08:35:21 AM »
I've been doing some mindless mturking at night after seeing someone else on here post about it. I've made $50 which is awesome and fun, but is just coming to about $3.00 an hour.  I'm kind of addicted to it though.  I can really only do it at night though.  I tried to read some online posts about how to increase what I'm making but they kind of went over my head.

Any tips on how to make more?  In plain english?  :)

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Re: Mturk help?
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2016, 08:38:40 AM »
If you can find tasks that require more than the average amount of skill, they might pay more. Keep in mind that you're competing against people in countries where $3.00/hr is a very decent wage, so you're probably not going to do much better than that on most of the tasks.

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Re: Mturk help?
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2016, 08:39:45 AM »
Continue to do good work, then you can go for tasks that pay a little more. Once you have a certain number of tasks done and you've got a solid rating, you can up the cash.

But MTurk really isn't a good way to make much. I used it a lot for grad school research, throwing 1000s of repetitive tasks out to people for like 3 cents in order to gather data for our projects. We probably paid $300 for 500 hours of work. The main people we saw using it were security guards and stay at home parents. Unless you just have time to kill and can't do anything more profitable, it won't really get you anywhere.

All that being said, there are different certifications you can earn to get qualified for more difficult but high paying tasks. Prove you speak English well, show you can do math well, etc.

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Re: Mturk help?
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2016, 05:05:30 PM »

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Re: Mturk help?
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2016, 06:28:22 PM »
https://www.reddit.com/r/HITsWorthTurkingFor/new/

Great resource, thanks for posting!

Even those are like.. 6 bucks an hour?  And they're the better ones?  Yikes.  :)
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Re: Mturk help?
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2016, 03:32:58 PM »
https://www.reddit.com/r/HITsWorthTurkingFor/new/

Great resource, thanks for posting!

Even those are like.. 6 bucks an hour?  And they're the better ones?  Yikes.  :)

Usually floats around 6$ an hour, but if you're more efficient and have better qualifications you'll make more.

 

Wow, a phone plan for fifteen bucks!