Recently research was conducted on some of Americas largest online market research and online survey sites to discover the average earnings of an online survey taker, the results of this study were announced at the Nielsen online consumer panel conference last week.
The study broke down the statistics into categories based on the amount of time that the members participated and broke the earnings down into hourly rates.
The most relevant of the information presented on the findings was the hourly rate of members over the length of time they remained a participating member of the site. The figures from this section have been listed below.
(please note that these stats exclude the amount of time taken for members to sign up to the online survey programs. The dollar values are also converted into from US to Australian dollars).
1-4 Weeks $11/hour
4-12 Weeks $18/hour
12-52 Weeks $24/hour
What does this mean?
Well as can be clearly seen this proves what we here at online surveys australia have been saying for years! The longer you remain a member of the companies you sign up with the more regular you will receive offered to participate and the higher the pay rate and importance of those studies will be. This is just common sense really as the research companies prefer to have a reliable and trusted member before giving them the more lucrative and important studies.
The study also when on to say that the average pay rate of online survey takers is not 50% more than it was this time last year. This was due to a rising demand for online market research as oppose to traditional in house research. They state that the reasons for this are that the data collected online has become not only more popular and cost effective that the traditional methods but because the data collected is now considered more reliable.
