Amazon Mechanical Turk

amazon does nothing at all to improve this service allowing requester's to basically pay well below any minimum wage in america. Not only low wages and long hours just trying to find work from the over saturated pool of workers-amazon allows known scammers to reject work regularly without any sort of blocking of some of the well known scammers getting work for free. 

You will have NO CHANCE earning much income without downloading third party scripts and doing extensive research to basically game the system to be actually productive with the many people who already understand how. This hands off approach by amazon has made their site for remote work one of the worst out there allowing a few sharks to make money while the masses make pennies on the dollar.

Amazon has created a culture on Mturk to basically keep any "hits" secret from other workers so you can make money yourself and not spread around good paying work to other workers because that work will rapidly run out in a matter of hours if the bloated amount of workers find out about any good paying work being offered. 

I can keep going but anyone who knows this site and how amazon handles it knows how greedy amazon is being with this and how much they actually care about the remote workers who they recruit and approve to work for them. In a time like this where they are in the press touting they are hiring and paying better , they currently have a pool of workers who are not even making a state minimum wage and they are leaving ignored and discarded.

Modern day slave labor. It seems great when you get $30 deposited to your account, until you realize you spent 8 hours combing the same page over and over, and then another 3 hours running the same few surveys for less than half min wage in some states.

I used to tolerate this until Amazon started putting in barriers to withdrawing the money that you rightfully earn; what was once a no minimum, instant withdrawal now follows a schedule (3 days at the soonest). This doesn't seem bad, until you realize it is an ACH transfer, so when your transfer date falls on the weekend it's another 2-3 days of waiting. This isn't counting the day an ach transfer normally takes to post. Sometimes I'll need a quick $20, do $20 worth of surveys, and have to wait 7 days to receive the money, even after it has been paid by those putting up the HITs. 

Now combine that with the fact that Amazon can't even manage to send the payments at the same time each scheduled day (I've seen as early as 12 am, currently I'm waiting on a transfer past 2 pm), that some work takes up to a full 30 days to pay, and that sometimes legitimate work will be rejected with no way to contest it, and you have a company that is taking advantage of you and wasting your time.

I've made a decent amount of extra money on Mturk but it's not steady work and you aren't always paid fairly. I've seen hour-long HITs pay $1.00... Yikes. That should be illegal. However there are often good HITs to be found among the completely unfair ones. I've made 530 dollars since I joined in May, which is pretty good for me since I have a day job and don't always have time to sit at home doing HITs. 

A typical day of work is filling out surveys and doing minor tasks for extra cash. The projects (HITs) you'll be tasked to do vary widely, but they're mostly surveys. You may rarely talk to management or requesters unless there's a problem (i.e. they reject your work or your payment doesn't go through). Workplace culture is just sitting at your computer/device doing surveys and other tasks. 

The hardest part of the job is the often unfair pay. It takes a keen eye and good searching skills to find HITs that pay decently. There's also the fact that having your work rejected can seriously damage your ability to use the platform. Luckily I haven't had much of a problem with rejections. The most enjoyable part is the flexibility of being able to work from home whenever you want to.

Easily the best or the worst job you will ever work. 

I have completed thousands and thousands (if not tens of thousands) of Human Intelligence Tasks, if you are not a grinder and highly motivated do not even consider this. Play 100% safe within the rules, never use internet other than your primary or you can get banned. Learn how to script and how to automate tasks as much as possible or you're done for. The job has evolved considerably over the last ten years, "batch work" that was big in the 2010s is a thing of the past for the most part. Know that if you are banned there is 0 way of getting unbanned and you will not even find out why you were banned. Do not do anything remotely sketchy or you are done. The lines are very clear and stay within them.  Don't ever expect to become Masters at this point either, I have serious doubts new Masters have been minted since the late 2010s.

This was the most upsetting thing I've done. The small tasks itself were not bad at all, you could do them whenever you had free time and for however long you wanted to. I had been working for only 3 days when I received an email stating my account was suspended. They have a specific email address to "help" resolve those kinds of issues. I emailed them twice for 2 days and after I received an email back stating they were unable to help me & that they weren't going to re-open my account. The reason for suspending my account was because apparently it was another account, but I had this account for a while I just never really used it until now. Now mind you, they never asked for my name on my account to even check the problem they just straight up told me they weren't going to re-open my account. I told whoever that was that they wasted their time and my time writing that email; They would've done better never responding to me. Why tell people to email you if you're just going to turn them down anyway. You guys have POOR professional skills ! I won't ever recommend this company to anyone, not even a homeless person!

This is a platform where you can find a lot of HITS human intelligence tasks which are basically mini tasks, surveys, tracing boundaries in a picture, market researching, people researching, business researching, data entry, audio transcription and much more.

Depending on the country where your Amazon account is issued and debit card details you will get jobs as long as the recruiter require people from that location, most of the jobs are for the US but there are hundreds of thousands of activities to complete each day.

Also for being able to work on certain tasks you have to go through a test and some of them you will be able to fail the test and repeat it within the same day, few hours or even weeks but some also reject you forever, that keep the quality of workers and work.

You also are more likely to be able to work in activities if your performance score is above 95%, each rejection give you a negative on performance and decrease the amount of jobs you could qualify for.

Amazon MTurk is a platform for individuals, corporation, and organizations to microcontract workers to complete a task. The tasks can range anywhere from audio transcribing to completing psychological surveys.

Payments rates vary from working for free to as high as $1 a minute. The problem though, is that high paying tasks are extremely few and far between. Most tasks pay less than 10 cents a minute. Tasks are also limited in number so workers compete against each other in order to claim their tasks before they run out. Many tasks are also very unethical, having users write positive reviews for services and websites on popular rating platforms, inflating website traffic, google search terms, etc.

However, it is a very low commitment way to earn a little extra cash when you want to buy something.

This is a work from home job and like many self employed ventures, it takes a lot of work and some time to get consistent money.   

Ive seen pay as low as 20 cents an hour and as high as over 50 dollars an hour.  Many surveys and batches are around the 6-15 an hour range.Many tasks on the front screens of available hits and ones for newer people are very low in pay, like 1-3 an hour.   There are good paying ones out there, but it takes awhile to find and/or qualify for them.   Good workers will eventually get closed qualifications and potentially a masters qualification making more consistent work available.   

This is not meant to be a long term career choice, but it can fill a void as side money, a part time job or a fallback option is used correctly.

A typical day at work consists of being a turkey and completing hits. I learned that you have to work really hard to find good hits. My favorite hits are p9r. There is no management watching over you but the requesters are nice and you can submit a form when there is an issue with a hit. There is also no workplace culture but as I said, the work is self-explanatory and provides instructions on how to complete each hit accepted. There is really no hard part of the job except not being able to find good hits that you are interested in completing. The most enjoyable part of the job is setting your own hours and working from anywhere, even a coffee shop. I have been working for mechanical Turk for over two years and they always provide me with good hits and I also have the option of requesting qualifications on the hits I am interested in. I really enjoy working for this company.

I began working on Amazon MTurk when I was in college and have been going there every now and again ever since graduating. Once you get into the flow of things, complete your first 1,000 tasks (or hits), and keep your approval score up (99.5% or higher), you'll start to get more, better-paying hits. The thing to look out for is contractors who will either scam you out of your work by claiming you did it incorrectly, even though you followed all their instructions to the letter, or those who will just simply disappear into the night. At least in those cases, MTurk will reimburse you for the work you've done, but you do have to wait 30 days before that happens. I would suggest looking online for MTurk worker threads so you can stay up-to-date on which contractors to accept work from and those to avoid. 

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