It is a way for companies to quickly and affordably outsource and crowdsource certain tasks, and a way for individuals to make extra money performing those tasks.
Yes, Mechanical Turk is legitimate. The service is owned and operated by Amazon and has hundreds of thousands of users. Be sure to check the blog for his story. However, most Mechanical Turk tasks pay very little and may not be the best use of your time.
If you like the idea of making extra money performing small tasks online in your spare time, you might also consider one of several online survey apps. I tried this and was turned down for reasons they would not specify… Anyone know what can cause this or a way to fix this? I am a united states citizen and have a ssn that is original and valid. They originally did that to me as well, then about a month later, e-mailed me again and said I was accepted. So I say wait and see if you hear from them again.
Sometimes they turn people down because they have too many people applying at that particular point in time. So, Christopher, did you ever get accepted? I saw a response from Layna that said sometimes they come back and let you in.
I was rejected for no reason too applied a few days ago. Just wondering. Same here. Applied and turned down for reasons unknown. Just got an email and started working yesterday. I find the article to be spot on-no hyperbole. It can be an ok extra income. Good luck! I did that and they soon sent me an email that said I could join. Also I have found that you cant have more than one account. Nice suggestions Mike ur language is very easy to understand and right to work on mturk.
Thanks a lot. How are the taxes handled? R u considered an independent contractor and given a at the end of the year? That was never mentioned in the screening process except to say that if a turk does too much qork for the same requester it could be considered contract work.
Nothing more specific was said about that. The rejection simply stated that I was rejected and to respect the privacy of their users they could not state the reason. Nice idea for a side hustle. I noticed that you are asked to give your social security number.
Is it safe to give out your number? Giving your social security number in this case is perfectly normal. Also consider that you are going to their website directly and not responding to a phishing email trying to get your information. Mechanical Turk is nice as you say. But it only brings benefits to those in India and USA alone. You can only spend them on Amazon gift cards.
I think this site only favors a chosen few. Hence, its creators are selfish It would be great if doors were opened up to Africa. We have a lot to offer the world. If only were given a chance…. You could purchase items using Amazon gift cards and then sell them on Amazon or Ebay. You could also sell items through a flea market or something similar to Craigslist in your country.
You can use purse. You can use your iPad mini. I use my iPhone and have no trouble performing the hits. The only time I incur an issue is if the requester requires the use of a PC. How long did it take before your amazon account was approved?
I just started this last week. I mean buying likes really? Because you have to learn how to make the most of the site hence the article above. Once you complete more hits you get better approval ratings and more approved hits. So you become qualified for better paying hits. So my advice would be just keep at it. Just extra side cash. I do amazon turk and mint vine.
Thanks for the article guys! My fave aggregator is called GiftCardGranny. Oh cool — thank you for the reply. But I hear only good things about Granny, so I think that option should be pretty safe then — thanks for the feedback I am somewhat limited to the tasks I can do because I am visually impaired and there are a lot that will not work with screen reading software such as having to extract text from images which I cannot do or surveys that do not include the accessible version which makes them more difficult if not impossible to complete, but I still enjoy what I do and it is the best place I have found for making consistent money.
If so, it is way less than min wage and a joke. Can anyone enlighten me please? Thank you! To answer this question, working as a Turk would be independent contracting work worker.
The Fair Labor Standards Act does not apply the minimum wage payment requirement to independent contractors. As such state and federal taxes would your responsibility to track and pay to the IRS.
I tried this yesterday and was turned down for reasons they would not specify. Anyone know why and if i could still try? Hi there, I am Subhash from India. I am a private school teacher, struggling to make both ends meet. So I am looking for some online work as a part tlime job.
I tried to register in mturk, but it was rejected. Anyone know why I might have been rejected? Is there any possibility someone can help me in this regard? Also, new users can complete no more than HITs during these first 10 days. I read in one comment that you can use a card to buy something then just resell it. I would use that. Hi there. I work on mturk. Can anyone help me? When you register with Amazon you usually give your tax number and then the tax agreement for that country is applied.
Do you happen to know if you can have people leave reviews for products and services they have used? Is this an action that is allowed with Amazon Mechanical Turk? Generally, I agree with everything in your post with the exception of the true hourly rate. You have to factor in the time you spend searching for hits, accepting them, getting thrown out by a hidden screen, badly formed or broken hits, checking TO ratings, monitoring your assigned queue, negotiating rejections, and so on.
Honestly, you could make more money roaming through a parking lot looking for spare change on the ground. Their refusal to tell people why they are refused admission to mturk seems dodgy, and I wonder what discrimination laws are being violated. But then, the whole scheme seems dodgy, designed to bypass numerous labor protection laws. Amazon Mechanical Turk is best platform for microjobs. Thank you so much for sharing review of amazon m-turk. The rest just silence.
Can anyone tell me how long average wait is to hear back if approved or rejected? I was turned down originally and approved 8 months later I think it was that it was reopened to Canadians. The first few weeks I gave up so much work for pennies. Try and be patient with it and find other things to do in the meantime. I signed up with inteletravel. Just so you know too, your account will be under review for up to 48 hours where you can look at HITs available but not accept them.
Great info here. I just got started, on day 4. To be eligible to work on many of the tasks, you have to have completed a lot of others, sometimes at least 5, I tried sorting HITs by those most recently posted. Batches tend to be quick, easy and high volume — and tend to pay very little. Maybe getting through a number of these could help me qualify for better tasks , I thought. MTurk gives requesters loose guidelines for what they can hire people to do.
Psychologists and university researchers use MTurk a lot to gather data for their work. I spent an inordinate amount of time figuring out how to qualify for HITs that paid more than pennies. I needed to piece together bits of information from review sites, Reddit comments and forum posts to uncover tricks that seemed to improve my success rate, and even then, in very small increments.
Many times, I accepted a HIT that seemed promising, wondering why it was still available, only to realize it was technically broken in some way. According to SwiftSalary. It felt more like a scavenger hunt with challenging, vague clues and pennies for rewards than a site that belongs in the Mount Rushmore of making money online opportunities. On narrowly-focused survey sites, I could turn off my mind, listen to a podcast or music and breeze through survey after survey.
Also, during my research, I discovered that most of the power users I found around the internet play with a stacked deck such as tools and plug-ins. If only there were such a thing. There is not. The only other work she was able to find was a hour-a-week minimum-wage job training workers at a factory how to use computers. In the county where Erica lives, only about half of people 16 years or older are employed, compared to 58 percent for the rest of the country.
One-quarter of people there earn below the poverty line. But there are other reasons she makes so little that have to do with the nature of the platform. The tasks that pay the best and take the least time get snapped up quickly by workers, so Erica must monitor the site closely, waiting to grab them.
Requesters use Mechanical Turk because they can farm out menial work on the cheap and get that work done quickly—with hundreds of workers each transcribing one minute of an audio file, for example, a final product can be returned in short order. Other sites like Crowdspring, which is an online marketplace for graphic design and other creative services, and Snapwire, a photo-crowdsourcing site, allow companies to get creative work done at a low cost.
On most of these sites, requesters hold more leverage. Workers can choose to get paid every day, rather than waiting for a paycheck for two weeks. Amazon did not respond to multiple requests for comment about this article. A research paper published in December that analyzed 3.
He says workers spend a lot of time looking for tasks, waiting for the interface to load, and trying to complete poorly explained tasks before deciding to return them. The paper did not research how many of the people it tracked depended on Mechanical Turk as their sole source of income. How is it legal to compensate workers so poorly? But Erica and other crowdsourced workers do not have to receive the minimum wage because they are considered independent contractors, not employees.
They are not covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act, which guarantees workers minimum wage and overtime protections, as well as a host of other benefits.
Just as small-business owners are allowed to work for hours on their own and not earn any money, independent contractors like Erica can spend significant time seeking work and completing tasks, and receive very little in return for doing so. The problem is not necessarily that requesters are underpaying for the work.
But there are also many requesters who pay less than that, and there are many requesters who post tasks that take longer than they say to complete.
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