What Is Amazon Mechanical Turk And How To Make Money With It?
Is Amazon Mechanical Turk scam or a legitimate way for workers to make money and for employees to get micro tasks done for cheap?…Mechanical Turk Amazon is one of those micro job sites that not a lot of people know about. But, if you are thinking about making extra money doing simple tasks, you should know what Amazon Mechanical Turk is and how it works.
What is Amazon Mechanical Turk?
AMT (short for Amazon Mechanical Turk), also known as Mturk, is a site owned by the mighty Amazon corporation. It’s basically a market place for micro tasks, tasks that computer and machines cannot do. Tasks that can only be done by good old human intelligence.
How does Mturk work?
Well, companies that have some tasks that computers cannot do, or can not do it precise enough, such as writing reviews or detecting a phonographic image and etc, post these jobs at Mturk, and just like any other job finding website, you can go there (after you register) and look for tasks that you envision you can perform. So, you will be assigned to do the task. There is no contract.
What is a HIT?
HIT or Human Intelligence Tasks are basically… well, tasks! Tasks that you can complete and get paid for. They are fairly easy and quick to execute and most of them can be done under 20-30 seconds or less. A task can be as simple as looking at 2 seemingly identical images and pointing out the tiny differences or looking at a page with a specific picture, and pointing out if the image is a pornographic or unlawful image.
Amazon Turk- A micro tasks site from Amazon corporation.
How much money can you make with Mechanical Turk?
The payout however is a little different from conventional jobs payout. Would you like a job that pays $0.10 per task completed? Of course not. But, when working on Mturk, there is a catch that can make that $0.10 to $10 ,$100 ,$1000 and so on.
Lets assume that you pick hits that pay $0.10, and each hit takes about 20 seconds. You work for an hour. You can make about $18 in one hour. Now tell me that’s not more than what most of us make! plus not all of the hits pay $0.02 or $0.10, there are some jobs that pay up to $ 3- $4 per hit. But keep in mind, since nobody dislike making more money, most high paying hits will be taken by other workers right away, so you have to be pretty quick. A useful hint would be to refresh your browser whenever you are looking for hits, hits are posted constantly, and you never know when a high paying hit will be posted .
How does Mechanical Turk pay?
Here is the good part, the pay. After you submit your hit, Amazon Mechanical Turk will automatically transfer money from the companies’ (or REQUESTER as they call it) prepaid HIT balance to your amazon gift certificate account. Then you will have two options, you can either choose to transfer the money to your bank account, or transfer it to your amazon.com gift certificate balance.
There is also bonus involved for workers who do better jobs than other, which is decided by the requester, although not for every hit you complete. Many companies will give you a bonus in addition to the stated compensation, if they like your job, and think that you have done a praiseworthy job. So, keep that in mind.
Amazon Mechanical Turk is certainly not a scam. In fact, it’s a great way to make some extra cash online. And although you may not make thousands of dollars, you can easily make a couple of hundred dollars a month working on hits on Amazon Mechanical Turk.
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July 23rd, 2011 at 9:28 pm
Nice to hear what others have to say about Mechanical Turk. Thanks!
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July 14th, 2011 at 2:10 am
Wow. Do people really make money on this? I didn’t see any offers for ten cents a hit that would take 20 seconds. More like 2 cents a minute, maybe? Fifty cents for a 500 word original researched article?? Two bucks to transcribe a 20 minute tape? Sounds a lot like slave labor to me, or maybe I’m just too greedy to work for pennies?
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June 9th, 2011 at 6:20 am
…It’s just too bad that this only works in USA
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April 28th, 2011 at 6:52 pm
what are pre-paid hits?
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satrap Reply:
April 28th, 2011 at 10:33 pm
Pre paid hits basically means that requesters have to pay mturk first before they can run a task and higher workers to do the task.
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November 2nd, 2009 at 7:57 am
Hi,
thanks for the great quality of your blog, every time i come here, i’m amazed.
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October 23rd, 2009 at 5:54 pm
I agree, AMT is a great way to make extra cash when times are though, but i didn’t get your point about AMT and their new method helping the needy? did they lunch any related program recently? ill be thankful fi you could let me know. so i can update the info about AMT if indeed there is anything new. thanks.
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October 8th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
perfect thank you admin
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satrap Reply:
October 8th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
You are welcome Kurye.
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melan Reply:
January 3rd, 2012 at 2:43 pm
how much money i can withrww that iam new worker from india and i earned $100 is there any cut off amount ???
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satrap Reply:
January 3rd, 2012 at 9:58 pm
It really depends on how much time and effort you spend on working on hits and how much the hits you work on pay. I do think Mturk takes a very small amount as their fee from requester, but I dont think they take any from workers.
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September 23rd, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Nice site!
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September 17th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
sauroon,your welcome and do give it a try. its a vey easy way to make extra money.
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September 15th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
I heard a lot about this lately. maybe i will give it a try. thank you for the tips.
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satrap Reply:
September 12th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Thank you for the kind words Joker. i hope the information provided here will be helpful. if you have any question, feel free to ask. good luck.
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