How to Make an extra 300$ a month with Amazon Mechanical Turk

In my opinion, an average individual can earn $0.10 a HIT, so if u can complete around 100 HITs a day then u can easily make 10$, that could make $300 dollars a month. Don’t get disheartened as HITs with higher payment are also available, ranging from $ 2 to $15, but they mostly come under surveys category.

If u are interested in making money by participating in surveys then you can quickly make some extra money.

Whilst, most of the surveys pay around $1 or more for just 5 or 10 minutes work a few consume a lot of time. If you find the survey to be time-consuming then u can go for an alternative.

Stay alerted, and always look for new HITs by refreshing the page before u accept another one. For better earnings, it is advisable to avoid 1 or 2 cent HITs, as they consume a lot of time without paying much at the end of the day.It is really up to you on how much you earn depending on the time you invest.

Before you get involved in any Amazon Mechanical Turk hit, it is better to analyze these main aspects.

• Firstly, whether it requires a qualification test to be passed before you can even begin working on the hit(s).
• Secondly, does it have extensive instructions, thereby slowing down your submission process and thus increasing your rejection rate?
• Thirdly, the amount of time you need to spend on a particular task and check whether the payment offered to complete the task is worthy. If u consider, it unworthy then skip to another HIT, by refreshing the page. You can always find new HITs getting updated in the marketplace.
• Finally, Read the instructions carefully before you accept a Mechanical Turk hit.This is one of the most important Mechanical Turk aspects.  If you regularly end up having to return an Amazon Mechanical Turk hit because you are unable, or don’t want to complete it, then this will affect your “hit return rate” adversely. Alternatively, you may complete and submit a number of Mechanical Turk hits incorrectly, then get them rejected, which can be very frustrating, as well as a huge waste of time. This doesn’t matter if you do it once or twice, but if you do it regularly, then it will limit the range of Mechanical Turk hits that you can take.

• It’s free to sign up.
• You can work from home.
• Choose your own work hours.
• Get paid to do good work.
• Above all, you have the liberty to choose only those HITs in which you are interested
• No minimum payout
• No referral system

• No proper regulation of the HITs.
• Need to be cautious as some Requesters might scam you. Just beware and avoid their HITs.
• The payments can be irregular.

• Avoid hits with a high payment that appear to be fake.Ten dollars for a job that takes less than 10 minutes is a sign of a scammer.
• Join forums such as Turker Nation and MTurk Forum to interact with other Turk workers, get informed and learn what hits to avoid and what hits are the best. These forums are set up and self-run by Mechanical Turk workers and they may help you to avoid the worst of MTurk and direct you towards the best requesters and practices.
• Download and use the Turkopticon-toolbar.This will allow you to see reviews from other Mechanical Turk workers before you decide to take a hit or not. See if a requester rejected an MTurk hit without good reason. Did they pay in reasonable time?One scam that unethical requesters use is to reject work on the grounds that it is inadequate in order to get out of paying.This tool is worth having if you’re a regular Mechanical Turk user, in my opinion, as it really does work.