Do you like earning extra cash for doing easy things? I definitely do — I started using mTurk a few years ago and still log on to this day on occasion just to get some Amazon money built up because the work is, for the most part, so easy. A lot of it doesn’t pay well, but you’ll occasionally come across a few gems that do in there. It’s certainly worth signing up to see what’s available from time to time to earn a little extra.
There are a lot of other short task sites out there in addition to mTurk, but I’ve never really reviewed too many others so I decided to put together a top ten list of short task sites you can use for extra cash. The work will vary from site to site. For instance, you might be writing reviews, leaving comments, doing data entry, categorizing items, or even liking a Facebook page. That’s one of the things I love so much about these sites — you never know what will be listed that you can do.
Amazon mTurk – Sign up as a worker to start taking HITS (Human Intelligence Tasks). You can request either actual cash money or funds added to your Amazon account to use for shopping. The payout threshold is only $1 if you’re requesting Amazon money. If you ask for direct deposit to your bank account, you have to have at least $10 to request payout.
Cloud Crowd – This site pays you every single day! That’s my favorite thing about it. Payments are sent to your Paypal account. Lately there has been a lot of editing and writing work to do here. The main problem I have with this site is that they allow other Cloud Crowd workers to grade your quality, and sometimes the other workers don’t do a great job. The end result is that your quality rating goes down and you suddenly can’t work on anymore tasks unless you appeal your rating.
Microworkers - The jobs on Microworkers are especially easy! I see a lot of “like me on Facebook” and “Stumble this article on Stumble Upon” listed here. The site is laid out well and easy to navigate. Unfortunately, they only pay you here with Moneybookers or AlertPay — no Paypal. I am not too familiar with either Moneybookers or AlertPay, but from what I can tell they are similar to Paypal.
ClickWorker – They pay once a week and will send you payment even if you just have one cent in your account. They also hire worldwide. Some of the work you can choose from includes copywriting, researching, translating, writing, and also easier tasks.
RapidWorkers – This site only has a $4 minimum payout. To me it looks a lot like Microworkers! I’m curious if they might be run by the same people. This one will pay you with Paypal, but they say it takes 30 days to process your payment. Also, there are five percent fees for withdrawing your funds.
MobileWorks – Work as much as you want and earn money for each task you complete.
Hopefully that list will help you if you are looking to expand your options for extra cash on short task sites! Please keep in mind that the jobs posted on these sites are posted by individuals, not necessarily the people who run the sites. For this reason, I urge you to use caution before accepting any tasks that you feel something isn’t right about.
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I use mircoworkers the most out of all these website’s. I would like to know how often do people use the other sites? There are a total of ten sites on this page. If my strategy was to make 25 cents a day on each of the websites. That would be a total of 75 extra dollars a month. Does anyone have a similar or better strategy that they use.
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Katrena, the only one I’ve used is MTurk. I search for tasks in the 0.50 range. At that level, I have found quite a few surveys for people doing psychological or sociological research. I enjoy those a lot- they are usually straight to the point, don’t take very long by design, and I like helping someone get the data they need.
Katrena, I honestly believe that earning an extra $75 per month is possible from using these sites. In fact, I’m sure you could earn even more than that if you focused on them a lot.
Your hourly rate, if you figured it up, would fluctuate depending on what kind of tasks you were doing and I would think that more often than not it would be on the low end. BUT money is money and this is an easy way to get it from home.
I just wante to say how much I love your website…I am so glad I found it! It is very helpful and helps me to weed out which “work from home” websites are scams. Keep up the great work!
Thank you so so much! I am happy to hear you like the site
Great list, Anna. There are some places where I haven’t heard of so I definitely plan on checking those out!
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myeasytask.com has been suspended for some reason. I went to log on and it says its been suspended. Thankfully I already withdrew my earnings already.
Thank you for the info! Glad you were able to get your earnings out before the website went down.
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I think this is the right place to post this. I found a site called MobileWorkers. It is a task site, but I don’t know too much about it so far, other than I signed up. LOL. They do use paypal, and I think it stated they pay out at $1.00. I do think the site is fairly new. It is different in tasks in that instead of picking your hits like in Mturk or Crowdflower, you get one as soon as you finish one, and they will vary. For instance, I had one to fill in a name from a form, and the next was to find a company’s European address. You don’t pick what you work on, they just come to you as soon as you finish one. The tasks are different than on other task sites, and you get your accuracy updated every 30 minutes and you can see your questions and your percentage on them. I am not certain exactly what it pays per task, but usually it seems to have the amount listed at the top for what you get if it answered correctly. Your earnings show as cents, not as dollar amounts. For instance, mine currently show 49.85, but again that is in cents, not dollars. If you sign up you do have to do a tutorial, but as long as you follow directions and read carefully, it is really easy, and it’s paid for. Plus for each section it basically walks you through the first 3-4 questions and then you do about 4 on your own. It seems very easy to get to the $1.00 payout, so I am really hoping it is a legit site! Also, there seems to be no time limit for doing the tasks like some others have. Since I’m getting closer to the $1.00 payout, I’m going to see if I actually get paid. I’ll post back once I find out for sure. The only way I saw for referrals is to send emails at the end of the tutorial, so I’m not sure if there is a direct referral anything. Right now they only use paypal and moneywallet (I think that’s what it is) though it says they will eventually have direct deposit available as well. If anyone knows anything about this site, please let me know. I’ll give the link if anyone wants to check it out for themselves. http://www.mobileworks.com/mobileworker/ Like I said, it seems pretty easy to get to the $1.00 payout, so if it’s a legit place, it should be easy to make a few extra dollars a day!
Hi! Just to update, I did get paid through paypal from Mobile Workers. They do take out a small percentage fee, and say it takes 3-4 days to get payment, but I received mine in about 2 days. So at this time they are paying, and are verified with paypal as well.
Beckie, thank you for sharing and thanking for coming back to update!
I am thinking about checking them out for myself. Sounds like a good little side earner!
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I just joined minute workers today, I had a look at the jobs available and they all seem to be filling out those junk mail surveys. To prove you have done the task, you have to (I looked at 6 jobs and it was the same for each) download an unspecified file (yes really!) and find the ‘password’ in the file, which you then C&P to the site. One other I tried had me signing up to a premium text service! If there were any way to deactivate my account, I would also do that today!
I wanted to mention a brand new site called http://gigworks.net we are much like other sites like fiverr and you can get paid via paypal for completing each job (gig). More payment gateways are in the works, and the site is new. Try it out it is free to post and search.
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Hello Anna, first I want to thank you for all of your posts! Recently I have started with Mturk. I was just wondering if you had any recent updates on any of these other task sites. I really enjoy Mturk and was just looking to add other “eggs” to my basket!! Thanks for any response you may have!
No problem! Apart from Mturk, lots of people are still having good luck using Cloud Crowd and ClickWorker. No one ever says much about Rapid Workers so I’m not sure on that one. I did have someone mention on my Facebook page the other day that he was making decent money on the side with Microworkers, but honestly that kind of suprised me because it seems most people don’t like using that site.
Thank you very much, I will check those out also.