Prolific - What am I doing wrong???

[GloomyWaters]

So Ive signed up to Prolific and really enjoying the surveys - so a survey says £7-"8 an hour etc. Im doing them and they are being approved but only receiving the odd £1 or £2 - What am I doing wrong????

Anyone

The hourly rate is just that. You need to look at how much the survey actually pays and the expected time taken. It's quite clear and on the same row as the hourly rate.

Yes it is clear, so all the ones Ive applied for and submitted are £6-7 but when Ive finished them they only paid £2 at the most.

Is it because Im finishing them really quick definitely within the hour

this new one says...

£0.40 5 minutes/ £4.62/hr

The surveys say they take 10 minutes (or however long) so the pay is worked out on the expected time taken to complete the survey. If it was 10 mins then you'd get 1/6 of the hourly rate.

So in your example you'd get 40p for the survey as it takes 5 minutes of the hourly rate (1/12th of the hourly rate of £4.62)

Ahhh I get it now!!!!! Ummm going to have to do shed loads then everyday to earn a decent amount. Plus you have to keep refreshing

Signing up for market research surveys is never going to pay a lot of money. Online quantitative research is sold to clients as a cheap way of doing research, so the companies who run the surveys are keen to keep the payments to participants as low as possible.

(And I know that because I'm an ex-market researcher)

I do prolific but it doesn't bring in much at all. Some days there's no surveys for me to do at all during the times i'm on. It adds up over the month but maybe only 30-50 quid a month.

You can set up something that tells you when there's new surveys. That said you're never going to get rich off them. I cashed out £50 last month, not life changing but nice extra money.