Amazon Mechanical Turk Reviews & Overview

Becoming an MTurk worker is free. To get started, head over to the website and create an account. During sign-up, you'll be asked to provide your name, email address, password, and your country of residence.

From there, you'll need to wait for an official invitation to join the platform. You'll hear back within 3 business days. While you wait, you can view available tasks and familiarize yourself with the platform. Once you're officially invited, you'll be able to start completing tasks for money.

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There are many different types of HITs available on MTurk. Some common examples include:

• Data entry (entering data into a database, spreadsheet, etc.)
• Data verification (verifying business hours, phone numbers, etc.)
• Data labeling (e.g. tagging objects in images)
• Data categorization (sorting data into categories/groups)
• Transcription (converting audio files or videos into text)
• Translation (converting text from one language into another)
• Search engine evaluation (making sure search results are accurate and relevant)
• Market research surveys (sharing your opinions on various topics)
• Writing (e.g. writing blog content, product descriptions, etc.)

These are some of the most common types of HITs, but Requesters (the ones who create the tasks) can post almost any type of task imaginable.

Note that some HITs will require special qualifications. You can occasionally find qualification tests on your dashboard.

By completing many HITs with high accuracy, you'll also have the chance of becoming a Mechanical Turk Master Worker, which can give you access to even more exclusive tasks.

Once you have at least $1 in your balance, you can cash out your Amazon Mechanical Turk earnings via Direct Deposit or Gift Cards.

After cashing out, you can expect to receive your Amazon Mechanical Turk payout in 3 days.(Workers can choose to receive payouts every 3, 7, 14 or 30 days. Payouts are sent automatically.)

Creating an MTurk requester account is free. To get started, head over to the platform's website and create an account. If you already have an AWS account, you can use that to sign in. If not, you'll have to make one by providing your email, name, phone number, country, and address.

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You can start creating HITs (human intelligence tasks) via the MTurk requester website. You can also create and manage your HITs programmatically via the MTurk requester API.

When creating HITs, you can require workers to have certain qualifications. For example, you can require workers to have a Masters Qualification (which is only available to top taskers). You can also choose from a selection of Premium Qualifications (to target workers based on language fluency or demographic criteria) or custom qualifications that you've created yourself.

You get to decide how much you pay workers to complete your tasks.

Before submitting tasks to the marketplace, you'll need to prepay for them by loading your account with funds.

Fees include a 20% marketplace fee (minimum fee of $0.01 per assignment) + an additional 5% fee if you use the Masters Qualification + an additional $0.05+ fee for using Premium Qualifications.

Paid support plans are available for those who want them. Basic support is free, but more involved support ranges from $29/month to $15,000/month for enterprise support.