The first and highest paying task, at $.60 a HIT (Amazon's term for a completed task) involves researching and updating a product description. This seems like a lot of work for that $.60 payoff.
The other task is much more numerous and only pays out at $.03 a HIT. This one involves looking at a group of pictures and selecting which, if any, represents best the business name and address given. These tasks are related to Amazon's A9 search engine and seem to be GPS linked snapshots automatically taken out a vehicle window. Most of the snapshots are bad and don't represent the business in any way, but in some of them the business name or address is visible.
As an experiment I've accepted and submitted 600 HITs over the last two weeks (I've got some slow time at work right now) to see what my payout would be. Part of the agreement is that the owner of the HIT can accept or reject your submission. A rejection pays out nothing.
Currently they've reviewed 358 out of my 600 HITS. My current rejection rate is 30.5% or 106 rejected. So far I've made a total of $7.26 cents. I'm not sure what their criteria for rejection is. I've been honestly selecting the best photo for each business/address and selecting 'none of the above' if none depicted the business at all. At this rejection rate my payout is really about $.02 per HIT.
My question: Who are these HITS geared towards? Paying $.02-$.03 per HIT doesn't land you much dough and you can't do the work unless you have a computer and a high speed internet connection. By my calculations, submitting a HIT every 15 seconds, you'd be making a maximum of about $7.20 per hour.
What's minimum wage these days?