By Michael Wong | December 5, 2018.
3. Amazon Mechanical Turk (http://c1ick.me/amazonmechanicalturk):
- Amazon Mechanical Turk is Amazon.com's online marketplace where companies can outsource data entry jobs from home type tasks to thousands of workers.
- Get data entry jobs that pay up to $50 for tasks such as:
- image/video processing: tag objects found in an image to improve search or advertising targeting
- data verification and clean-up: remove duplicate content from business listings
- information gathering: write content for websites
- data processing: rate the accuracy of results for a search engine
- A study of 2,676 workers, performing 3.8 million tasks, revealed some interesting results:
- Workers earned a median hourly wage of only about $2 per hour
- 4% earned more than $7.25 per hour - you might want to concentrate on the higher paying tasks
- The average task pays more than $11 per hour, but there are a lot more lower paying tasks.
- Source: A Data-Driven Analysis of Workers' Earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk (http://c1ick.us/amazonturk-study)
- Transfer earnings to your Amazon Payments account (and then transferred to your bank account), or Amazon gift card.
- Use the Turkopticon browser toolbar to browse other workers' reviews of employers to avoid scammers and unfair employers.
- Browser extension ratings:
- Chrome: 4.21 (170+ reviews / 30,000+ users)
- Firefox: 4.8 (10+ reviews / 1,500+ users)
- Amazon.com, Inc., is a $800 billion publicly traded company (http://c1ick.us/amazon-ndq).
- Employees: 10,001+ (est. 1994) (http://c1ick.us/amazon-lkd)
- BBB accredited rating: B+ (http://c1ick.us/amazon-bbb)
- Minimum age: 18+
- Countries: USA, India, worldwide.
- Free to join: Yes