Amazon Mechanical Turk Micro jobs


The Amazon Mechanical Turk is the best Micro jobs site in the world run by the biggest e-commerce company Amazon. Shortly called as MTurk, it is the home to millions of workers around the world. Launched in 2005, Mturk is the largest marketplace to connect the developers to human intelligence. Amazon MTurk believes that human intelligence is still the best in processing certain data compared to the artificial intelligence. So, they have developed an automatic platform where companies can programmatically access the marketplace to hire workers.

The Microtasks posted on Amazon MTurk are called HIT. The HIT refers to Human intelligence tasks. To earn money on Amazon Mechanical Turk, the workers have to complete the HITs posted by the employers. Initially, only the basic HITs will be available for the beginners. The workers have to complete the HIT with good accuracy to gain access to the high paying disabled tasks. The rate per task completion starts at $0.01 and increases to dollars based on the complexity of the task.

Once approved by Amazon MTurk, workers can start their work right away. The worker must browse the jobs available on MTurk. Initially, 95% of potential tasks will be in disabled mode. Choose the available job by clicking “Accept & Work”. Then read the instructions given carefully and the maximum time given to complete the task. Hit accept, complete the task with good accuracy to get paid. Continue to complete the tasks to unlock the high paying tasks.

Sites like MTurk don’t have any terms of working time. Enter the dashboard whenever you’re free, complete HITs to earn money. Amazon MTurk masters earn four figure income every month working as a full-time employee. It might take a few months for the beginners to join the masters’ club.

Unfortunately, MTurk is available only for workers from certain countries. Supported countries list covers almost all the countries from North America & South America, Europe, Developed countries from Asia and APAC, countable countries from the African continent. To become a worker you must apply for an account with authentic details. They will send a mail if your account is approved. Click the button below to learn more about working on Amazon MTurk..

While US workers can transfer their earnings to Amazon payments account or Amazon.com gift card, workers outside the US can transfer their earnings to Amazon.com gift card balance and some workers are eligible to transfer their money directly to their bank account.