Paid Survey FAQ

Market research companies pay everyday people small sums of money for their participation in a paid survey.
Advertisements like this mislead people into believing that paid surveys are a way to get rich.
But you will only be paid an average of about $5 per paid survey.


Are Paid Survey Sites Scams? Yes and no.
For the most part, these are a waste of money.
Those types of paid survey sites do not actually send paid surveys.


But there are actually hundreds of sites that will pay you to participate in a paid survey.
There is no good reason to join a paid membership site to take paid surveys online.
When you join a paid survey site you will usually be asked to provide some personal information about yourself.
This is so that when a company wants to survey a particular group of people, for example women between the age of 18 and 24 who own a pet, the paid survey company can send the survey out to that group.


There are some major companies that seem to partner with alot of market research companies actually do send alot more paid survey opportunities than others.
Also if you see something like "Take this paid survey a get a free laptop" you can be pretty sure this is a scam.
A legitimate paid survey will usually tell you the amount it is paying and the time it should take to complete the survey.
In a system like this you are paid a certain amount of points for each paid survey you complete.
NFO My Survey and Global Test Market use this method of payment.


There is a list of several legitimate paid survey sites listed in the resource box at the end of this article.
As long as you are over 13 years old.
Others paid survey companies have world wide members.