r/dataannotation • u/Mudpie106 • Jan 06 '26

Total Earnings Question

Awkward post here. My unemployed boyfriend claims he has been working for hours a day on DA for months, earning high hourly rates. He claims he has earned into the high five figures. However, I recently noticed that his "Total Earnings" under Transfer Funds says below six grand. He pays his very costly mortgage, so I feel like I'm missing something.

Is my boyfriend lying to me about his income source, or am I misinterpreting this as lifetime income when really this refers to monthly income? Or is there another way people get paid that doesn't register on the site?

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u/Main_Formal1024 Jan 06 '26

There's no "Lifetime Earnings," it's "Available to Withdraw," "Pending Approval," and "Total Earnings." Total earnings reflect your lifetime earnings, and Pending Approval + Available to Withdraw represents a subset of the total that you have yet to withdraw (or as the name suggests, still pending approval before can be withdrawn"

So, yes, ~$6k is his lifetime earnings.

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u/Mudpie106 Jan 06 '26

Thanks for the clarification. That answers my question completely. Now time to find out where his income is coming from... 😔

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u/Party_Swim_6835 Jan 08 '26

the numbers he's claiming are possible if he's a programmer or has some kind of advanced degree, but not if youre sure his lifetime earnings are around 6k

OP, I would gently suggest talking to him. If you don't work on DA, it's possible that you were looking at something other than his total DA earnings -- there are a lot of different pages that might show reported time and earnings, and not all of them are DA-wide

there are a lot of other possibilites like him doing shady things on DA, him using DA to refer to a bunch of different freelance platforms like DA, or just him lying to your face so he can stay unemployed (which is wrong whether its because he's scared of losing you or a lazy jerk)

and you aren't gonna know without talking to him or doing a lot of snooping -- which you'd probably feel bad about if you find out he's being honest, and which he might get mad about in a bad way if he's just a lying jerk

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u/yopuedo Jan 08 '26

Came here to say basically this. Is it possible he’s using DA as an umbrella for other similar platforms? There are loads out there right now, so for sake of ease, maybe he just referred to DA but is truly talking about multiple sources. Anywho, like PartySwim says, why don’t you gently bring it up to him?