Guest Author Lapis Lee’s Top 25 Paid Survey Sites Introduction
I have earned $2651.97 in 20 months, which is $132.60 per month. The average survey site earned $5.30 per month. My actual receipts are $2520.07, which is $126.00 per month.
The top six sites have not changed since last month; although I confess that trips to the beach as well as to the Clapton/Winwood, No Doubt, Paul McCartney and U2 concerts have slowed up my efforts in the survey arena over the summer months. There was a strong surge from Surveyhead, which has caused me to spend less time on other daily survey sites, like Daily Survey Panel and a few others that are not listed here.
Pinecone also jumped ahead when I realized that their online website only tracks the last 20 surveys, which is generally the last $60. There was little to no activity among the bottom dwellers this month; although I did complete a $10 chocolate study for Datalligence, for which the check has not arrived, and I am also waiting on a $10 product test of ten T-shirts from GARB. MyView would rank much higher except that I am forced to use a different email address for the survey invitations due to a PayPal conflict over my primary email address from several years ago. Some sites do not allow you to specify a different PayPal address than the one where you receive the survey invitations. Buzzback has fallen off the list after getting no reply to repeated emails asking about incentive payments from as far back as February.
My Current Top 25 List as of October 6, 2009
- SurveySpotLast Month’s Rank: #1
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $422.80
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys, Interactive Surveys, Product Trial Surveys
- Payment Options: cash via Check
- Joined: 2008-01-30
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: $5
- Total Payment Received: $419.80
- GlobalTestMarketLast Month’s Rank: #2
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $356.00
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys
- Payment Options: Cash via Check
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: 1000 points = $50
- Joined: 2008-03-01
- Total Payment Received: $304.50
- Opinion OutpostLast Month’s Rank: #3
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $301.90
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys
- Payment Options: Cash via Check or Amazon gift certificates
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: 50 points = $5
- Joined: 2008-02-04
- Total Payment Received: $288.40
- Valued OpinionsLast Month’s Rank: #4
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $179.05
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys
- Payment Options: Amazon Gift Certificates
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: $20
- Joined: 2008-02-18
- Total Payment Received: $161.15
- Greenfield OnlineLast Month’s Rank: #5
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $123.00
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys, Invoke Interactive Surveys
- Payment Options: Cash via PayPal or Check
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: $1 for Paypal, $5 for Check
- Joined: 2008-02-18
- Total Payment Received: $123.00
- Daily Survey PanelLast Month’s Rank: #6
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $105.75
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys
- Payment Options: Cash via PayPal or Check
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: no minimum
- Joined: 2008-06-08
- Total Payment Received: $105.75
- Surveyhead+1Last Month’s Rank: #8
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $99.15
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys
- Payment Options: Cash via PayPal
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: $25
- Joined: 2009-02-05
- Total Payment Received: $70.15
- HCD Research-1Last Month’s Rank: #7
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $97.65
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys
- Payment Options: Cash via Check
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: 1000 Points = $10
- Joined: 2008-02-27
- Total Payment Received: $97.65
- Socratic Forum+2Last Month’s Rank: #11
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $95.00
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys, Product Trial Surveys
- Payment Options: Cash via Check
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: $10
- Joined: 2008-03-28
- Total Payment Received: $80.00
- SurveySavvyLast Month’s Rank: #10
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $93.00
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys
- Payment Options: Cash via Check
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: $1
- Joined: 2008-03-01
- Total Payment Received: $88.00
- American Consumer OpinionLast Month’s Rank: #11
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $93.00
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys
- Payment Options: Cash via Check
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: $4
- Joined: 2008-03-31
- Total Payment Received: $85.00
- Pinecone Research+2Last Month’s Rank: #14
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $81.00
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys, Product Trial Surveys
- Payment Options: Cash via PayPal
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: No Minimum
- Joined: 2008-04-03
- Total Payment Received: $81.00
- MySurvey.com-1Last Month’s Rank: #12
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $80.00
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys, Product Trial Surveys
- Payment Options: Cash via Check
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: 1000 points = $10
- Joined: 2008-02-02
- Total Payment Received: $80.00
- TolunaLast Month’s Rank: #14
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $80.00
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys
- Payment Options: Cash via Check
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: $10
- Joined: 2008-3-01
- Total Payment Received: $70.00
- Mindfield OnlineLast Month’s Rank: #15
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $69.00
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys, Product Trial Surveys
- Payment Options: Cash via Check or PayPal
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: $5
- Joined: 2008-2-01
- Total Payment Received: $64.00
- Global Opinion Panel / Synovate+1Last Month’s Rank: #17
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $65.00
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys, Product Trial Surveys
- Payment Options: Points redeemable for Cash via Check
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: 5000 points = $5
- Joined: 2008-05-02
- Total Payment Received: $60.00
- Netverdix-1Last Month’s Rank: #16
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $64.00
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys
- Payment Options: Cash via PayPal
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: No Minimum
- Joined: 2008-04-04
- Total Payment Received: $64.00 ($50 from contest)
- LightSpeed+1Last Month’s Rank: #19
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $55.00
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys and Product Trials
- Payment Options: Points redeemable for Cash via PayPal
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: 575 points = $5.00
- Joined: 2008-04-02
- Total Payment Received: $55.00
- Epoll-1Last Month’s Rank: #18
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $50.00
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys
- Payment Options: Points redeemable for Cash via PayPal or Gift Certificates
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: 3500 points = $5
- Joined: 2008-02-19
- Total Payment Received: $50.00
- ClearVoiceLast Month’s Rank: #20
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $47.00
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys
- Payment Options: Cash via Amazon Gift Certificate
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: $10.00
- Joined: 2008-02-28
- Total Payment Received: $40.00
- MyView+1Last Month’s Rank: #22
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $35.00
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys
- Payment Options: Cash via PayPal
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: $25.00
- Joined: 2009-01-21
- Total Payment Received: $26.00
- Viewpoint Forum-1Last Month’s Rank: #21
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $34.67
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys
- Payment Options: Points redeemable for Cash via Check
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: 375 points = $10.00
- Joined: 2009-01-21
- Total Payment Received: $34.67
- Elite OpinionLast Month’s Rank: #23
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $30.00
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys
- Payment Options: Points for Cash redeemable via PayPal
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: 575 points = $5
- Joined: 2009-03-11
- Total Payment Received: $30.00
- Great Apparel Research Board (U30/GARB)+1Last Month’s Rank: #25
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $25.00
- Types of Surveys: Product Trial Surveys
- Payment Options: Cash via Check
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: No Minimum
- Joined: 2008-04-01
- Total Payment Received: $25.00
- Datatelligence
- Total Accumulated Earnings: $20.00
- Types of Surveys: Online Surveys
- Payment Options: Amazon Gift Certificates
- Minimum Balance Required for Payment: 1000 points/li>
- Joined: 2008-03-01
- Total Payment Received: $20.00
TOTALS
Earned: $2651.97
Received: $2520.07
Last updated: October 06, 2009
{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }
After you have specified check, do you have to send the $5.00 in before they will send your money, or do they take it out of your earnings?
Lucylea,
You do not send any money for them to send your paypment. If you are referring to the minimums for payments mentioned above, this refers to the policy of a survey panel that requires an accrued collected balance having to reach a value before you can request payment. So basically what this means is that once you have the minimum (in this case $5) in your account, then you can request payment. You NEVER have send the panels any money.