Just checked my old emails... weekly earnings at first: $5.38 $20.42 $61.38 $91.95 $188.02 The jump to $60 was when I found this forum. The big jump at the end when I discovered the wonders of turkmaster. I've since settled down into the $100-150 range, unless I have a decent active qual like VDX at the moment, in which case I try to do as much as I can tolerate while they are still posting. They always leave me eventually. You've already found the forum, you are ahead of where I was. Add TM and perhaps scraper, ask questions here, and you'll see those numbers soar.
This is my first week's email, but I was approved to start on Jan. 5th, so it was really only 5 days: The following is a summary of activity for your Mechanical Turk account for the week ending Jan 09, 2016. Your HIT activity for this week: - Number of HITs submitted: 424 Approvals and payments that occurred this week: - Number of HITs approved: 200 - Number of HITs rejected: 1 - Bonus reward earned: $1.51 - HIT reward earned: $18.73 - Total Amount earned this week: $20.24
The requester name actually is just VDX. At the moment they are posting batches every 90-120 minutes, 24 hours a day. The pay is not exceptional, but acceptable. The work requires a qualification though -- I got mine way back in August, and the chance to get qualifications like that doesn't come up often. My best advice on that front is any chance you see to get a qualification, take it. Even if the work looks awful. You never know what will happen -- they may increase the pay, they may post a little or a lot, etc. But the qualification HITs are often only available for a very short time -- just pay attention in the forum, they usually get mentioned here.
new thread http://mturkforum.com/showthread.php?34094-Can-t-Find-Awesome-HITs-1-13-Warp-Speed-Wedesnday