How to Make Money on Amazon Mechanical Turk with a Complete Step-by-Step Tutorial
This is a detailed guide showing what Amazon Mechanical Turk is, how much you can earn, and how to sign up today.
How to make money on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Now this article is going to be a complete step-by-step tutorial. I’m going to walk you through this entire process. I’m going to show you what Amazon Mechanical Turk is. I’m going to show you how much you can earn. And I’m going to show you how you can get signed up and start making money with Amazon Mechanical Turk from today. So if you are interested in making money online or making money with Amazon Mechanical Turk, then keep reading as this is going to be one of the most valuable articles you ever read.
Introduction to Amazon Mechanical Turk and Free Workshop Opportunity
Learn how a free mentorship workshop helped achieve a $7000 month online.
Now before we jump into this article, I just want to mention that my mentor has opened up a few spots for his free workshop. As I said, there are only a few spots, so it is a first-come, first-served basis. And this workshop actually allowed me to earn my first seven thousand dollar month online, so it is definitely worth your time.
What is Amazon Mechanical Turk?
Understanding the platform and how it works for employers and workers.
Okay, so as you can see, we are on Amazon Mechanical Turk right here, and the web address is mturk.com. Now, as it says, access a global on-demand 24/7 workforce, and this is effectively from the point of view of somebody who wants to hire. We will get into how you can actually sign up as a worker later in the video, but I will first explain what Mechanical Turk actually is and how you can make money from doing this. So Amazon Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing platform that makes it easier for individuals and businesses to outsource their processes and jobs to a distributed workforce that can perform these tasks virtually. So effectively, guys, this is almost like a freelance marketplace where you are going to get people coming along and they are going to want jobs done. This can be things like simple data validation, research, survey participation, content moderation, and a bunch of things like that. Companies will come along wanting somebody to do this, and then to make money on this, you effectively complete these tasks and you will get paid for this.
How the Amazon Mechanical Turk Marketplace Works
Connecting requesters with workers for different tasks.
So as it says right here, how it works: requesters have tasks that need to be completed. They are placed on the MTurk marketplace, and workers, me and you, want to earn money and work on interesting tasks. So it’s like the best of both worlds, and you can find each other through the MTurk marketplace. And that is basically a quick overview of what Amazon Mechanical Turk actually is.
How Much Can You Earn on Amazon Mechanical Turk?
Understanding pricing and payments on the platform.
So if we go into the pricing right here, you can see that it completely depends on how much the employer wants to pay. So there is no set price that you will be earning from MTurk. As this is here, employers or people who are looking for workers on Mechanical Turk effectively decide how much they pay for each assignment.
How to Sign Up for Amazon Mechanical Turk
Step-by-step process to create a worker account.
So what we can do is we can actually go ahead and click “Get Started” with Amazon Mechanical Turk, and then you have the option here to create tasks. This is for workers, or you can also go ahead and make money. So you want to click on “Request a Worker Account.” Now once you do this, it will take you over to the worker registration, and you just want to fill in all of your information. Now I’ve got this all blurred out as my information is here, but it’s just going to ask you for your name, your address, and all of that good stuff. Once you’ve entered it, you can click “Create Account,” and then you will be taken through to this area.
Exploring Tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk
How to qualify, unlock jobs, and start earning.
Now as you can see, we have a bunch of jobs here. Some of them are locked, and some of them you need to qualify for. So if we click on “Qualify” right here, we can see the reasons that we haven’t qualified is effectively because we haven’t had enough experience yet. So if you start completing these tasks that you can actually do, that’s when you are able to qualify for these locked ones and unlock a lot more work. For example, we have this one at the top: market research survey, and this right here is going to pay out five cents.
Example of a Low-Paying Task on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Starting small to unlock higher-paying opportunities.
So what we can do is we can have a quick preview of this and see what this is about. Get paid to take surveys. Our algorithm attempts to pair you with the highest-paying survey available at the moment that you are eligible for. Each attempt is a valid HIT. Try as many as you can. Our system will self-regulate you. We want to ensure you have a high chance of being paid with a survey. La la la la la. So that is awesome right there. And as it says, this will pay you five cents. And guys, although this doesn’t sound like a lot, the awesome thing is, especially when you start doing these tasks and you start unlocking these ones right here, you can see that this task right here is going to pay $7.50. So is this one: $7.50 for this task, $2.00 for another. So you can see that if you complete these basic ones that don’t pay very much, that is how you can unlock these higher-paying ones.
Accessing Higher Paying Jobs on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Scaling your earnings with more qualifications.
Now on the next page, we can see a bunch more higher-paying jobs: $1.50, $7.50, $4.90. And you guys can see that there are just pages and pages of these. So as soon as you start qualifying for these bigger tasks, you can literally just go through and complete a ridiculous amount of tasks, as there is just page after page after page.
Why Amazon Mechanical Turk Can Be a Good Side Hustle
Flexibility, unlimited work, and income potential.
Now that is one of my favorite things about Amazon MTurk. With a lot of these online make-money-online methods, you have a cap for how much you can complete per day. But on MTurk, the more time you put in, the more money you make. So you can effectively choose how much you make on this website, as there are just so, so many jobs to do.
Real-Life Earnings Example from Reddit
A user earned $154 in one month working part-time.
Now I just found this Reddit article that tells a bit more about Amazon MTurk. So this guy earned $154 in his first month. He says, “After struggling for such a long time to find a legit work-from-home earning, I finally managed to earn $154 working approximately two to three hours a day in just one month with no prior experience. I believe it’s a decent amount. I have detailed my experiences and honest reviews here.”
Earnings, Hourly Rate, and Limitations
Why Amazon Mechanical Turk may not replace a full-time job.
So if we go ahead and look over at this article, we can see it gives a bunch more details. So you can see these earnings are legit and available for transfer: $154 right there. So I averaged an hourly rate of $5, which is way less than the minimum wage in Canada. However, it’s good when it gives flexibility to work from home. So that is something to keep in mind, guys. $5 an hour. So maybe this is going to be a good side hustle. It’s probably not going to be a full-time job, unless you are from a country where the minimum wage is not very high. Like $5 per hour in somewhere like India is an absolutely incredible pay. So as I said, depending on where you are from, the hourly rate is kind of good, but in some places it’s awesome. The other problem is you can be your own boss.
Pros and Cons of Amazon Mechanical Turk
Payment methods, location restrictions, and qualifications.
And then we have a few cons right down here. Many of the high-paying microtasks are only available for the US. So that is something to keep in mind. But not all of them will be, and you will be able to get some of the high-paying tasks if you are anywhere in the world. You can only transfer your earnings on Amazon gift cards. PayPal payments are only applicable to US and Indian citizens. So if you are in the US or if you are in India, that is awesome and you can cash out on PayPal. But if you are anywhere else in the world, then you can get Amazon gift cards.
Dashboard Overview on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Tracking tasks, approvals, rejections, and available rewards.
Now something else I want to quickly go over right here is your dashboard. And right here you can see how many tasks you have submitted, approved, rejected, and pending. And right here you can see your total reward. We can also see the available amount for transfer right here. So this is how much you can actually cash out. And everything you basically need to know right here, guys, is in your MTurk dashboard.
Example of a Simple Task: YouTube Email Collection
How completing small tasks helps unlock higher-paying opportunities.
Now a second task that we can look at is a YouTube channel email collection. And this is only going to pay one cent. But guys, as I said, it’s one of the ones that we can actually accept. So this is pretty much needed to do if we want to go ahead and unlock the other tasks. So with this one, you basically have to go onto YouTube channels, find the email that is for the business inquiries, and then send that email back to them. Now I’m pretty sure—I’m not certain—but I’m pretty sure you will get paid one cent per email. So that means that you will get paid if you do 10 emails, and then you will get paid 10 cents. Once again, not the best wage in the world. However, for the fact that you can actually go ahead and unlock these qualifications, it’s definitely worth doing.
