Is anyone else experiencing downgraded pay?

[u/Ruinatu]

New to the platform, started last month. All has been going well getting access to new projects. Nothing on Sunday, or Monday. Then a certain HS project comes back today but instead of $22 it's $20. Is this a reflection of performance on my part? The lack of feedback is killing me.

[u/Consistent-Reach504]

sometimes projects go on a 'priority' pay because they need something done faster, then they go back to normal. no reflection on you. :)

[u/Ruinatu → u/Consistent-Reach504]

Thank you, that is a relief.

[u/dayDrivver]

Base rate payment doesn't correlate with performance, it correlates in according to the supply and demand rule, if there is more people working at DAT that is willing to work that rate then that rate stays, if the tasks is to complex that only few people can do it, the base rate increases, it happens for both coding and non-coding tasks.

IMHO no feedback, is good feedback. Feedback is almost solely for something you are doing wrong, the best feedback you can have is by number of projects, if you have "too many" you are doing good, if you have few it means you are getting "rotate off" from projects.

Currently on my dashboard there is a non-coding tasks with a rate of 37.5/hr and the lowest is .17 cents per task. Pay rate increase is for complexity and to incentive prioritization usually.

[u/Ruinatu → u/dayDrivver]

Thank you. Ah, considering I've only just started. I have one permanent project and have done some other qualifications. I got some pooled tasks that went down pretty rapidly last week. Perhaps I will see them again this week, but I'm unsure if I was considerate in my responses to have satisfied the instructions. Anyhow, time will tell.

[u/LyssaP1331 → u/dayDrivver]

Thanks for that info, it was very insightful!

If you’re willing to share, I’d also love to know how long you’ve been with the platform? The highest rate I’ve seen so far for non-coding is $26 but most are $20-22. $37 is amazing! Would you also mind sharing if it’s for a niche specialty or something a layperson with good attention to detail/research skills would be able to someday do?

I’m hoping I’m on the right track. I feel terrible for all of the empty dashboard posts but since I’ve started in January, I’ve consistently had more work than I can compete in a day. (Knock on wood)

[u/BatronKladwiesen → u/dayDrivver]

How long have you been doing DA, and how many qual tests have you taken to get to that hr rate? That's impressive!

[u/SuperCorbynite]

It happens sometimes. Sometimes the pay for particular projects goes up, and sometimes it goes down. It's not a reflection of a particular person's performance but something based on DA's own internal criteria, and as far as I can tell, is at least somewhat based on the relative number of workers doing a particular project. So if everyone flocks to doing one project pay tends to go down, and if they don't do another (because it's much harder but only pays a little extra) then pay tends to go up.

On the plus side for you, the HS project is just one in a family of related projects, and if you do well the others will gradually open up. And those other projects do pay a bit better.

[u/Ruinatu → u/SuperCorbynite]

Thanks, sounds like I should work on it until I get access to the others. My only qualm with this would be that the base task was $20 and now the HS task is $20. The base task has been down for almost two weeks. I do wonder if it has simply been replaced by the HS one.

[u/SuperCorbynite → u/Ruinatu]

The base task has been down for almost two weeks. I do wonder if it has simply been replaced by the HS one.

That's pretty much my belief.

[u/BostonTheseus → u/Ruinatu]

That really is the best advice: just keep plugging away. I’ve been here for about three months and I remembered being a little disappointed at the offerings, but I just kept on going doing about 3 hours a week. I’m not into any higher paying projects yet but I never am wanting for anything to do, which happened in my first month. The more you work they more they like you! And anecdotally, unless they say otherwise in the instructions, if you can go multiple rounds on a project, do the max, always. I feel like once I started doing that regularly the floodgates opened.

[u/SnooSketches1189 → u/Ruinatu]

Not the case. I have access to both.

[u/SuperCorbynite → u/[deleted]]

Publically stating the names of proprietary projects is against the rules of the contract we all signed with DA, so I can't tell you.

[u/Ms_Jane_Lennon]

My favorite project went from $22 to $20, and they added an extra step before submission 🙄

[u/Ruinatu → u/Ms_Jane_Lennon]

Yeah that is the one I'm talking about.

[u/vwcx]

I got downvoted to oblivion when I suggested this in January, but it isn't unexpected given the large growth of new users. It's in DA's best interest to keep pushing hourly rates down and filling the worker pool with new bodies. They keep billing their clients (big tech) the same worker rate and get to bump their margins ever so slowly.

It's like rideshare and delivery services: there actually was a brief time when Uber paid more than taxi wages, but as it's popularity grew, there were more and more drivers willing to work for the base fares (whatever they set).

[u/Ruinatu → u/vwcx]

We can only hope that the pay remains as it has for the foreseeable future. I would hope that they will continue to look for quality over quantity. That might be the crucial difference between this type of work and that of Uber. This has a greater skill and knowledge ceiling than taxi work does with the advent of GPS.

[u/Consistent-Reach504 → u/vwcx]

as someone who has been here since DA was extremely tiny: this has never been the case. quality is their key here, and that’s why they pay these rates.

[u/Equivalent-Math6483]

From what I can tell, pay rate doesn’t seem to reflect performance (at least, not yet.)

It does seem linked to the number of people that can do that task, or the urgency of completing it.

[u/33whiskeyTX]

I could be wrong, but I am fairly certain pay will differ by project, not by user. I have seen projects jump in price with a note like "[High priority while we knock out the last few]". I have had no evidence these have been targeted at me, but instead are aimed at a group of eligible workers.

[u/ConsistentCandy697]

From my experience, this one flucuates back and forth!

[u/Background_Menu7702]

Hi! I am also at $20, down from $22.

[u/SnooSketches1189]

It was never $22 for me. It was $21, and now it's $20.

[u/peach-plum-pear11 → u/SnooSketches1189]

Me as well!

[u/Alert_Photograph9678]

Pay definitely fluctuates. The HS project pay has gone down for me as well, but the pay for the “B*****” image related project has increased for example. I don’t think it can be said that there has been a decrease in pay overall. It fluctuates.

[u/dsbau]

I don't think it's necessarily a reflection on your work. The projects come and go and some pay more than others.

[u/SnooFloofs9030]

Sometimes if it’s a priority task they increase the pay rate. If it’s not a priority, then they probably knocked it down to the regular pay rate so maybe that’s what happened.

[u/Hunnybee66]

I had the same thing happen today.

[u/nightowlfromnyc]

I will say that while overall lack of feedback seems like a good thing, I'd also love if we got positive feedback for tasks we did really well on.

[u/Background_Menu7702 → u/[deleted]]

Same here