Mechanical Turk - making money online

MrPeabody · Post by **MrPeabody** » May 15th, 2013, 8:22 pm

Here is the link to the Mechanical Turk marketplace for work. You make money by doing Human Intelligence Tasks.

https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

How it works.

https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome?variant=worker

Cornfed · Post by **Cornfed** » May 15th, 2013, 8:36 pm

That doesn't seem terribly lucrative. More of a pastime.

ladislav · Post by **ladislav** » May 16th, 2013, 10:32 am

Not clear how much money you can earn there. I just looked into it, and it does not explain it clearly. It says reward is 0.02 cents. Time- 60 minutes. And then a number of hits- some thousands.

How does that translate into money? What's the average earning?

MrPeabody · Post by **MrPeabody** » May 16th, 2013, 10:58 am

Here's an article by a guy who tried it and claimed he made about $7 an hour.

http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2009/07/ ... ical-turk/

That could compare with teaching in a foreign country.

anamericaninbangkok · Post by **anamericaninbangkok** » May 16th, 2013, 2:48 pm

Flipping waste of time. You're better off spending your time attempting to earn more money than this job will provide.