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Originally Posted by sonica
Hello. I am a worker at mturk and work on different hits. It would surely help if requestors upped their pay and atleast paid the base rate which is a dollar for 100 words. People who work on hits have to spend time to submit good work. If I am writing an article I will have to spend time on researching the topic and looking for information which is new and different that my earlier work. So, if there are any requesters here, it would help if you paid reasonable rates or paid good workers with a bonus when they submit excellent work.
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Hi Soniva,
Welcome to the Forum!
Yeah, I imagine it would be nice to get paid for the work at a reasonable rate. However, I know of no set base standard for payment. Matter of fact, mturk makes no suggestions on the matter, and I feel that's part of the problem. I also know that workers have the right to turn down any HIT they feel does not pay to their starndards. Perhaps this is why mturk has no set rates.
This being said, I know I put up a ton of HITs at mturk, and people say that I pay well for what they have to do. But then again, I don't request articles, I request small 30 word or more snippets on various subjects.
Btw, $1 per 100 words is still very cheap for the base of an article. You'd only be making $4 per 400 word article, and that is well below the standard most places charge for a service on the internet. Take the Internet Marketing arena for instance. $10 per 400 word articles is low. I've seen articles run for $15 and higher.
Makes me wonder why mturk workers don't branch out on their own by forming their own article writing service instead of settling for peanuts working at mturk. Lord knows there is always work available in this area. All a person has to do is get a customer base.
