Survey Reveals How it Can Pay to be a Member of the Crowd
Interesting results from a new survey of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk workers offers some revealing insights into who makes up this virtual crowd and how much they rely on crowdsourcing for their income.
For starters, nearly twenty five percent of those who responded to the survey said that crowdsourcing is responsible for more than ten percent of their annual income.
Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing Internet marketplace for on-demand workers that allows businesses to use multiple individuals from anywhere in the world to help them complete tasks over the net quicker and cheaper.
Seattle-based CrowdControl organised the survey and among the most interesting findings were:
• Nearly 61 percent of the workers have college degrees
• Nearly 77 percent perform tasks at home, some in between playing video games
• This particular crowd is dominated by women, accounting for just over 56 percent of workers
• Over 35 percent of respondents with a day job earn more than $50,000 annually
You can read more at the original PRWeb press release. The CrowdControl survey of US-based workers was the first of its kind and was conducted on December 4 and 5th 2011. From now on it will be held on a quarterly basis.
The findings provide some further validation of the growing crowdsourcing market and follow the publication of Getting Results From Crowds: The definitive guide to using crowd-sourcing to grow your business. The book demonstrates the massive opportunity that crowdsourcng offers companies, as well as giving them advice on how they can tap into the power of the crowds.
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