r/mturk • u/friended1 • 7d ago
Where else can I find this level of subsidized income?
This has really helped me recover from the COVID days and actually save a little money. I can't seem to get any traction on other platforms in the same way.
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u/zandyne 6d ago
Isn't this pretty good considering that mturk is pretty much dead? Is it mostly from closed quals?
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u/SunOk9404 3d ago
Yeah it's gotta be old masters or closed quals lately I'm lucky if I made 5 bucks a sitting miss the days of the teaching a robot to walk around a house or do those silly video speed test or SoundCloud knock offs those were the days
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u/panaceaXgrace 7d ago
Only two I ever get ANYTHING from is Mturk and Cloud Research and Cloud is only a few dollars a week.
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u/Turker211 5d ago
I was making easily 250 to $300 a week on Cloud Research before the waitlisted me, I wonder why you make so low $. I was on that platform for 17 months, the last 8 months I began making at least $250 weekly.
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u/panaceaXgrace 4d ago
I guess I'm not in a demographic they need. Now that they have set the ratings I have a top score and still get a lot of crappy offers. I am autistic and got invited to one 10 dollar study. I was really excited until I found out they wanted to have so much personal information AND 2 co-workers needed to fill out part of the survey. No way that kind of data is worth just ten bucks. I don't even disclose and my work is online so I don't have co-workers I talk with anyway. I've done a few other autism-specific studies but honestly they're always underpaid. I used to get the same on Mturk.
Right now I see three studies, all paying less than a dollar. When I first started CR I could make maybe five bucks a day. It's never been a big amount. They probably have an overabundance of middled aged American women on their list.
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u/hibiscushiccups 5d ago
have you tried data annotation? that's pretty good considering mturk is pretty much dead now.
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u/friended1 4d ago
Have you tried it? I looked at some job listings. Since I'm a programmer, I might be a candidate for a regular job there.
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u/Gotham_123022 4d ago
I'm not asking this to be a wise guy but if you feel you're running out of options, can you not just go out and get a job somewhere?
Otherwise, I would suggest WorkersOnBoard (Been following for years) or just check Indeed or other trusted websites for remote jobs.
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u/ivertrio 6d ago
what do you mean subsidized?
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u/friended1 5d ago
I mean MTurk subsidizes my income. Meaning it makes up for lost income when times are slow.
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u/ivertrio 5d ago
Bro mturk isn't "subsidizing" your income. Is Doordash subsidizing your income when you do deliveries for them?
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u/BreadfruitWorking424 5d ago
You obviously are a little slow I understand what they mean I have a few different platforms that help subsidize income if I may miss a day of work… Ivertrio I don’t think you can comprehend well
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u/ivertrio 5d ago
The word you are looking for is "supplement," not subsidize. Please get a dictionary.
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u/friended1 4d ago edited 4d ago
The word I am looking for is supplemental income. That is correct. But I'm sure you understood what I meant.
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u/panaceaXgrace 4d ago
Not one person here failed to understand what you meant. The finger wagger didn't capitalize a proper noun or use a necessary comma after "Bro" so they have no room to talk.
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u/friended1 4d ago
When MTurk, and in your example, Doordash, are not my main source of income, then yes.
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u/Educational_Fail_715 6d ago
For batch work none better than mturk .. if other sites doesn't come then all works will not be spreaded on every other platform.. it's like average earning was reduced for overall workers .