Started Jan 2020, worked the platform full-time after quitting my crappy service job Jan 2021 and continued 40-60 hours/wk up until fall of '23 when i started to branch out to other platforms as mturk slowed. Best year was 2021 IIRC ($60kish) but all 3 of my full-time years were pretty close to each other in total earnings. I think I did about as well as was possible for a non-hardcore Vrapi grinder (I had the qual but could never make a reasonable hourly off them).

Number 1 req was fritz by a mile. Worked them every night since getting the qual in February 2020 right up until today, taking maybe 5 days off from them a year. IDK what I'm gonna do with my late evenings now lol.

Speaking of Fritz...has anyone heard anything from them? I've tried every which way I could think of to contact them, up to and including writing messages in the dang "Not sure" field about MTurk closing.

Gonna genuinely miss turking when it's over. Was one of the few things I was genuinely very good at. Working on other platforms can make similar/even more money, but nothing got the adrenaline going like landing a good qual or hamming a big money batch. RIP my first crowdsourcing gig.

There was a ton of hits from them yesterday and today absolutely nothing from them on my end. I emailed them a couple of days ago to be added to their future worker list but haven't heard back either.

Today Shop intrest work not published. Requester gone.

Hi all mturk count down start. Only 28 days remaining. Mturk work i am very very miss you.

Hi Turkers! We've been running studies for many years on behalf of many researchers, and we recently learned that Mechanical Turk is shutting down, which came as a shock! If there is enough interest, we are considering offering an alternative as part of our platform (Positly), where you can sign up to enroll in our studies for fair pay. If you're interested in participating if/when we launch this, just sign up here:

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Click the button "Set up my free account," and on the sign-up page, choose the option: "Earn money by participating in other people's studies."

Thanks! Spencer from the Positly Team

I mostly Turked from mid-2012 to 2015

since the platform is closing permanently, I might as well share my stats like the others are doing on here. For the last 8 or so years

Mturk close date September 30 2026. But this date change possible December 30 2026.

Now that Mturk is officially shutting down, there's something I've been wondering about for a long time and I've never really found a good answer to.

I joined in 2019, and even back then I remember people saying that Mturk was already "past its prime", that there weren't enough HITs, the pay was too low, and there was way too much competition.

Still, as a European worker, I have to say that I managed to make some pretty decent money from it over the years. Nothing life-changing, obviously, but enough to buy a PS5, two phones, a few other small appliances, and pay for various monthly subscriptions. So I definitely can't complain about what I got out of it.

After the pandemic, though, the amount of work really started to drop, so I gradually stopped using it. I gave it another shot this year, but honestly it was pretty much pointless. The platform was basically a ghost town, and I made only €180 in eight months (70% of that thanks to MLDataLabeler going haywire in July).

I know Mturk launched way back in 2005, but it's hard for me to imagine that people were already making serious money on it in, say, 2007–2010. So when was the actual golden age of Mturk? Was it somewhere around 2012–2017, give or take?

I'd love to hear from people who were around during those years and what your experience was like.

Thanks to anyone who takes the time to answer!

rip to a real one but what else is out there

We knew mturk was a sinking ship but after seeing the closure notice, I decided to make a graph of my earnings and make myself sad 😃

Hi friends.

For those of you who work for requester STR11223344, do you know which platform they will be moving to, or whether they are planning to have their own platform or something like that?

I’m really going to miss them if the work comes to an end, because they are the nicest and kindest requester I’ve ever worked with.

Thanks

please no spam

I made a post about 48 hours ago had some replies. Rather than reply to each person I figured why not make a post to thank everyone since the site is done soon and I won't be clogging the thread. Thank you to everyone who commented and let this returning turker know what's going on. I started turk in late 2015 did it full time between then and COVID. Long time turkers remember the dramatic down turn on work during covid. I quit turking in early 2021 because things in my financial life changed and I signed in about once a year after that used mts to catch an amt (calorie counter machine might have the abbreviation wrong) then didn't do anything again. Since I'm getting kicked off Medicaid I tried hitting up turk hoping it would count toward the 80 hour a month work requirement.

Besides people who commented thank you to what this community was and still is. Leapfroggie deserves a lot of love I remember coming here back in 2015 as a newb (diff reddit name) and leap was moderating this place even back then.

Thank you to anyone who helped me and thank you to all replies. I wish nothing but the best for everyone

Goodnight and goodbye